What is the Five Paths to Leadership®?
The Five Paths to Leadership® is a proven model that helps individuals and teams understand their leadership strengths — and how to apply them more effectively.
Unlike other leadership models that assign you a single style, Five Paths measures your ease of access to five intuitive leadership styles:
Critical Thinker, Relator, Visionary, Warrior, and Sage — and shows how your style shifts under stress.
With this knowledge, you can strengthen collaboration, lead with greater confidence, and help your teams thrive in a changing world.
Designed for Leaders at Every Level
Whether you're leading a small team, a department, a college, or an entire institution, the Five Paths to Leadership® framework meets you where you are.
Its insights are relevant for:
- Individual contributors and rising leaders
- Team leads and supervisors
- Department chairs, program directors, and deans
- Senior administrators and campus-wide leadership teams
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Why Use Five Paths?
Begin Your Path to Purposeful Leadership
Start your journey with the Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment — included with membership or available for individual purchase.
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Deepen Your Practice
Once you’ve taken the assessment, explore resources designed to help you interpret your results and apply them to everyday leadership.
Attend a Live Debrief Session with a trained facilitator (recommended).
Watch the On-Demand Overview Course at your own pace.
Not a member? Start with the Free Webcast.
Build Real-World Leadership Skills
Turn insights into impact with our Leadership Skills Course — designed to help you apply the Five Paths to Leadership® framework to everyday challenges like delegation, feedback, and meetings.
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Ready to Scale Leadership Growth Across Your Institution?
You’ve started applying the Five Paths to Leadership® framework to your own leadership practice. Now, take the next step to strengthen your team and embed a shared leadership language across your campus.
Use Five Paths to Leadership® to:
- Build internal capacity through Five Paths to Leadership® Facilitator Certification, empowering campus leaders and professional development teams to deliver Five Paths to Leadership® workshops and debriefs in-house.
- Deepen collaboration and communication with the Five Paths to Leadership® 360 Assessment, helping leaders gain insight through feedback from peers, supervisors, and direct reports.
- Apply the framework in action through custom Five Paths to Leadership® retreats tailored to your institutional priorities and team needs.
- Create a resilient and adaptive leadership culture by embedding the Five Paths to Leadership® model into onboarding, supervisor development, and cross-functional collaboration.