What Form of Power Do You Lead With?

Power isn’t a title or a position someone gives you. It’s something you author.

Six types of power show up naturally in how women live and work, even if we don't ourselves recognize it.

This 2-minute assessment will help you identify the one you lead with most naturally.

Twelve simple questions. One result. Sent to your inbox.

What kind of work makes you lose track of time? *

Observing, reflecting, and understanding what’s beneath the surface

Exploring new ideas and following questions that expand thinking

Connecting with people and understanding what they need

Making or creating something others can feel and experience

Solving complex problems by designing systems that work

Starting new initiatives and bringing them into motion

Where do you naturally look when you want to understand something better? *

Inward — exploring what I feel, think, and believe

Outward — seeking ideas, frameworks, or thinkers that expand my view

Around — noticing the people involved and what they need

Into story — uncovering the narrative and meaning at play

Into structure — understanding how systems and patterns function

Into action — identifying what can begin and moving forward

When you look back at your most meaningful work, what made it significant? *

It helped someone see something true about themselves

It challenged thinking that needed to shift

It brought people together or strengthened community

It expressed something real that others could feel

It created a system or structure others could use

It made something happen that wouldn’t have otherwise

In a group doing important work together, your most natural contribution is: *

Sensing what’s unspoken and bringing awareness to it

Asking questions that shift the conversation

Making sure everyone feels seen, heard, and included

Articulating vision in a way that moves people

Organizing ideas into coherent, actionable steps

Taking initiative to get the group moving

A woman you admire tells you she's stuck. She knows something needs to change but can't name it. Your first instinct is to: *

Ask her to describe what she’s feeling beneath the surface

Explore assumptions that may be keeping her stuck

Tend to her relationships and support her connection

Help her uncover the story she’s telling and rewrite it

Map options and create a clear path forward

Identify one concrete next step and help her act

How do you make your most important decisions? *

By sitting with it until clarity emerges

By exploring perspectives until something shifts in my view

By considering who is affected and what they need

By imagining the story this decision will create

By defining constraints and choosing what works best

By starting and adjusting as I go

What does consistent forward motion look like for you? *

Regular reflection — journaling, stillness, making sense of what’s happening

Continuous learning — questioning, reading, expanding thinking

Staying connected — checking in with people who matter

Creating consistently — making something each day, even imperfectly

Iterating on systems — refining, improving, making things work better

Starting things — consistently turning ideas into action

When you meet resistance, what is your instinct? *

Observe quietly — understand what’s really happening before responding

Question assumptions that underlie the resistance

Tend to the relationship — notice where connection is broken

Name the issue directly — calling it often releases tension

Redesign the system — something in the structure isn’t working

Start anyway — movement often shifts resistance

What quietly drains you? *

Being surrounded by noise when I need stillness to think

Being expected to accept things without questioning them

Being in environments where people aren’t truly seen

Having something important to express but no space to do it

Working inside systems that are broken and can’t be fixed

Being held back when I can see exactly where to go

When you are most fully yourself, what does the world get from you? *

Insight — helping people see what’s true

Possibility — expanding what others believe is achievable

Belonging — making people feel seen and connected

Meaning — giving people language for what they feel

Coherence — turning complexity into something that works

Innovation — creating what wouldn’t exist otherwise

If you had to choose one, which would matter more to you? *

That people see the truth more clearly because of me B. C. D. E. F.

That people think differently about what’s possible

That people feel more connected and less alone

That something you expressed stayed with people

That something I build continues to work without me

That something exists now that wouldn’t have without me

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