Healthy leaders align who they are with what they do.
Find your Quadrant Flow
HEART, SOUL, MIND, STRENGTH™
These are the 4 core ingredients that make us human. Which one of these is your home base and how do you flow through the quadrants? Discover your greatest potential and contributions and better understand those around you. Deep within the human capacity to find meaning and significance in our lives. No one has to teach us this—it’s instinctive. Use our free assessment tool to begin helping you uncover your Quadrant Flow™
The Four Types
What would it take for you to own your natural starting block and live with confidence from that position? By this point, you likely feel an affinity with one or two of the quadrants we’ve described. Maybe equally valuable, one or two other quadrants feel foreign to you. Life is largely about learning to see yourself deeply and honestly, leading from the fullness of your quadrant capacities and drawing others around you to complement your gifts with theirs.
Heart Starters
The Superpower of Connection. These people enter into projects, relationships, conversations, and the world at large from the position of the Heart. They are feelers, connectors, collaborators, and lovers. Their social worldview motivates them to answer the question, Who is with me? Who do I need for this project? Who will this help?
At their Best: Heart-Starters lean into their lives in order to connect with people, feelings, wants, and desires. They seek to commune and share their lives with others out of a primal need for belonging. If you have a vision or a project that needs to be done, it’s your Soul that offers the inspiration. But your Heart brings the passionate call for others to gather, join, and collaborate. The superpower for Heart-Starters is their Capacity for Connection.
At their Worst: Heart-Starters may become overly attached to their feelings, seek to please others at the expense of their own mission, or become mired in introspection and inactivity.
Primary Leadership Style for this type is the Collaborative Leader.
Soul Starters
The Superpower of Meaning and Perspective. These people enter into projects, relationships, conversations, and the world at large from the position of the Soul. They are contemplatives, sages, visionaries, and innovators. Imagine Gandalf, from the Lord of the Rings. Their mystical worldview motivates them to answer the question, Why are we doing this? Why is this important? Why are we going in this direction?
At their best: Soul-Starters are all about vision and deeper meaning, seeking to captivate and inspire others with stories, inventions, symbols, and metaphors. Their capacity to view an unseen reality allows them a grand perspective, which they offer to others as wise counsel. The superpower for this archetype is their Capacity for Meaning as a context for everything else.
At their worst: Soul-Starters may isolate themselves in the world of ideas, withdraw when they feel invalidated or misunderstood, or seek safety in exploration without choosing to act.
The Primary Leadership Style for this type is the Visionary Leader.
Mind Starters
The Superpower of Understanding. These people enter into projects, relationships, conversations, and the world at large from the position of thought and the Mind. They are the intellectuals, thinkers, designers, and strategists.
Their structural worldview motivates them to answer the question, What are we doing about this problem? What steps need to happen? What do we need to know?
At their best: They bring things like plans, policies, principles, and beliefs to the forefront of their approach and considerations. Their ability to perceive patterns and relationships allows them to place the pieces and parts together in systems that can deliver the desired results. The superpower for Mind-Starters is their Capacity for Understanding the big picture.
At their worst: Mind-Starters may become more attached to the flawless execution of their systems and strategies than to those being served by them, may dismiss perspectives that cannot be logically proved, or may become controlling in their advocacy for process improvements and consistency.
The Primary Leadership Style for this type is the Strategic Leader.
Strength Starters
The Superpower of Service and Action. These people enter into projects, relationships, conversations, and the world at large from a bias toward and capacity for physical activity. Their greatest energy arises when the meeting ends, and it’s time to get to work. They are the warriors, the doers, the managers, and drivers who harness the material world to achieve results.
Their sensory worldview motivates them to answer the question, How will we get it done?
At their best: Strength-Starters bring a catalytic force that transforms in- tangible ideas into tangible products and activities. They are fast, resourceful, efficient, and direct; they instinctively assess challenges, rally resources, and lead the charge. The superpower for Strength-Starters is their Capacity for Service to something greater than themselves.
At their worst: They may disconnect from relationships, meaning, and emotion to become harsh taskmasters. Their sense of urgency may lead them to act prematurely and without a well-formed plan, the consequences of which are then felt tangibly throughout the whole organization or family unit.
The Primary Leadership Style for this type is the Operational Leader.
