Explore Your Leadership Identity
The 5 Leadership Archetypes help you explore your leadership identity beyond your clinical role and understand the relational patterns you organically cultivate with your team. When you discover your primary archetype, you stop trying to lead like others and instead leverage your authentic strengths.
Each archetype embodies an element of our trauma-informed Cultivate TRUST leadership model. Explore our free Leadership Archetype Assessment as a step toward authentic leadership and meaningful connection.
Which Leadership Archetype Are You?
The Authenticator, skilled in the element of Transparency. You embody authenticity. This indicates you are a master of candor. You naturally cut through confusion with clarity and offer concrete direction when guidance is needed.
Your clinical competence remains strong, yet leadership requires different approaches. You might not have expected that your preference for direct, efficient communication would need to include making space for emotional conversations that can feel cumbersome but are essential for team trust.
The invisible labor you carry:
Consistently providing clarity and direction when others avoid making tough calls
The mental load of always being prepared to address problems directly and honestly
Maintaining transparency about challenging realities when others prefer to stay comfortable
Being the reliable source of concrete guidance when your team needs decisive leadership
The Nurturer, skilled in the element of Repair embodies compassion. This indicates you are a compassionate leader and naturally lead from your heart space. You naturally see and nurture everyone's humanity with remarkable depth.
Your clinical competence remains strong, but leadership requires different tools. You might not have expected that your compassion would make it challenging to have direct conversations about accountability and performance.
The invisible labor you carry:
Often noticing and responding to emotional climate while others focus more heavily on tasks
Seeing the gap between how people treat each other and the kindness you know is possible
Naturally creating emotional safety while learning to communicate your own needs for care and support
The mental load of constantly considering how decisions will impact people's feelings and sense of belonging
The Mediator, skilled in the element of Unify, embodies harmony. This indicates you're a master at collaboration. You naturally see nuances in team dynamics that others miss and know how to create bridges between different perspectives.
Your clinical competence remains strong, but leadership requires different approaches. You might not have expected that your strength in seeing the bigger relational picture would make it harder to make decisions without extensive consensus building.
The invisible labor you carry:
Noticing when team dynamics are off and naturally wanting to restore connection
The mental load of weaving equity and inclusion considerations into every decision, which requires thoughtful integration that others may not recognize
Naturally amplifying unheard voices while learning to equally prioritize your own vision and needs
Navigating the tension between making decisions and maintaining the collaborative culture you've worked so hard to create
The Problem Solver, skilled in the element of Seeking, embodies curiosity. This indicates you're insatiably curious and always on the quest for knowledge about subjects, systems, and people. You naturally see systemic connections and innovative solutions when situations feel overwhelming.
Your clinical competence remains strong, but leadership requires different tools. You might not have expected that your natural solution-focused approach would need to slow down to allow space for team members to process emotions and relational dynamics before moving to solutions.
The invisible labor you carry:
Noticing inefficiencies and missing pieces everywhere while watching preventable problems unfold
The mental load of synthesizing complex information and seeing systematic connections that others don't track
Processing multiple variables simultaneously while others focus on individual components of the system
Maintaining objectivity and analytical thinking when emotions are running high around you
The Visionary, skilled in the element of Tact, embodies intentionality. This indicates you understand what motivates and inspires your team. You naturally help people see possibilities they didn't know existed and connect work to deeper meaning.
Your clinical competence in creating therapeutic hope remains strong, but leadership requires different approaches. You might not have expected that your gift for seeing possibilities would make it challenging to focus on the concrete structures and follow-through that teams need to turn vision into reality.
The invisible labor you carry:
Consistently generating creative energy and vision when your natural flow includes both inspiration and rest cycles
The mental load of making mundane operational tasks feel meaningful and connected to purpose
Maintaining enthusiasm for processes and details that drain your creative energy but are essential for team clarity
Always considering the human impact and meaning behind decisions while supporting your team's energy and engagement
Ready to discover your leadership archetype?
Perhaps you felt the recognition in these words. Maybe you've seen yourself in multiple archetypes, or perhaps one resonated more deeply.
Understanding your natural patterns helps you lead in ways that honor both your humanity and theirs. Your leadership identity exists beyond your clinical training. It's time to discover and trust it.
Each archetype embodies an element of our trauma-informed Cultivate TRUST leadership model, offering you a framework rooted in connection rather than control and sustainability rather than performance.
Explore our free Leadership Archetype Assessment as a step toward authentic leadership and meaningful connection.