The Corporate Rewilding Leadership Diagnostic Test

Fifteen questions to reveal where control is draining trust, energy, and adaptability in your organisation.

Drawn from the Seeds for Reflection in Rewilding the Corporate Mind by Thom Dennis.

Rate each question 1-5, then use the reflection prompt to write your answer.

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Control & Trust

1. How much does the organisation rely on control as opposed to trust? *Reflect: What growth might that be preventing?

2. How well do the organisation's current leadership practices fit the complexity and pace of the world you are actually operating in now? *Reflect: Which practices were designed for an earlier world and are no longer serving you?

3. How much does efficiency override empathy in your organisation? *Reflect: What is the long-term cost of that trade?

Systems & Awareness

4. How often does the organisation look for someone to blame when things go wrong, rather than asking what in the system made it likely? *Reflect: What is leadership not hearing that they need to be aware of?

5. How much freedom do people in your organisation have to adapt, experiment, and respond to what is actually happening? *Reflect: How might diversity and rhythm become design principles in how you work?

6. How far is leadership in your organisation measured by stewardship rather than status? *Reflect: What would change if stewardship were the primary measure of leadership?

Trust & Fear

7. How safe do people feel telling the truth - especially when it is uncomfortable? *Reflect: What would make it safer?

8. How openly is fear acknowledged and addressed in your organisation? *Reflect: Where does fear live in your organisation, and how does leadership contribute to it?

9. How comfortable are the leadership saying "I don't know" in front of their teams and their peers? *Reflect: What happened the last time someone did?

Power & Purpose

10. How much does internal competition undermine the possibility of collaboration in your organisation? *Reflect: What would shared prosperity look like instead of personal triumph?

11. How concentrated is decision-making authority in your organisation? *Reflect: Where could decentralising authority build more trust and capability?

12. How clearly does your organisation's deeper purpose show up in its actual decisions? *Reflect: Where does your stated purpose sit most uncomfortably alongside your actual decisions?

Presence & Practice

13. How much does your organisation suppress qualities associated with the feminine - listening, intuition, care, and relational intelligence - in favour of action, dominance, and certainty? *Reflect: Which suppressed qualities, if given more room, would most change how your organisation operates?

14. How much space does your organisation allow for reflection before significant decisions are made? *Reflect: In what ways can the culture reward considered response over reactivity?

15. How much room is there in your organisation for joy and love as genuine forces in how people work and lead? *Reflect: What would it mean to treat joy and love as genuine forces of positivity in how your organisation leads and performs?