At Leadership Worth Following (LWF), we serve as your dedicated team of business psychologists. We are the only leadership consulting firm specifically focused on helping companies find, develop, and retain leaders truly worth following.
How? We connect your business goals with science through our exclusive framework: the Worthly Leadership Model. This proven model is built on decades of leadership research, real-world data, and hands-on experience with leaders across diverse industries.
Our approach identifies leaders who are more than just impressive resumes but are individuals who genuinely inspire trust and drive sustainable success for their teams, organizations, and communities.
The Leadership Crisis: Why Traditional Measures Fall Short
The corporate landscape is filled with leaders who appear excellent on paper. They possess prestigious degrees, impressive career trajectories, technical expertise, and interview brilliantly. Yet repeatedly, we witness these seemingly qualified leaders fail in crucial ways.
These leadership failings:
- Undermine trust through toxic behaviors, ethical compromises, or self-serving decisions
- Create fear-based cultures that drive away top talent
- Prioritize short-term gains at the expense of long-term organizational health
- Resist feedback, developing dangerous blind spots that lead to poor decision-making
The consequences are severe and far-reaching: job losses, damaged reputations, shareholder value destruction, and occasionally, total organizational collapse. We’ve observed this pattern in high-profile cases from Enron to Theranos, as well as in smaller companies where the impact was equally devastating at a local level.
In analyzing these failures, we find that the root cause rarely stems from skill deficiencies but rather from character shortcomings. This realization drove us to develop the Worthy Leadership Model—a comprehensive framework designed to help organizations identify these risks before they materialize.
The Worthy Leadership Model: A Comprehensive Framework
Our Worthy Leadership Model transcends traditional leadership assessments by evaluating leaders across three essential constructs, known as the “3 C’s”:
1. Capacity to Lead: What a Leader Can Do
This construct examines the leader’s fundamental skills and abilities, including:
- Problem-solving and decision-making capabilities
- Strategic thinking and visioning
- Communication effectiveness
- Adaptability in changing circumstances
- Industry and business acumen
Key questions this construct answers:
- Can they analyze complex situations and make sound decisions?
- Do they effectively see and communicate the bigger picture?
- Can they inspire and align others around a shared vision?
2. Commitment to Lead: What a Leader Wants to Do
This construct explores the leader’s motivations, passions, and driving forces:
- Dedication to excellence and continuous improvement
- Investment in building meaningful relationships and talent
- Curiosity and desire for professional growth
- Service to stakeholders
Key questions this construct answers:
- Do they demonstrate passion for delivering exceptional results?
- Are they genuinely invested in developing people and relationships?
- Do they show commitment to personal growth and learning?
3. Character to Lead: What a Leader Will Do When No One is Watching
This critical construct assesses the leader’s ethical foundation and personal integrity:
- Honesty and transparency in communications
- Moral courage to uphold principles even when difficult
- Humility, gratitude, and forgiveness
- Consistency between stated values and actual behaviors
Key questions this construct answers:
- Do they consistently demonstrate integrity and keep commitments?
- Will they advocate for what’s right, even at personal cost?
- Do they show appropriate humility and acknowledge others’ contributions?
The Science Behind the Model
The Worthy Leadership Model isn’t based on management trends or theoretical concepts—it’s grounded in over two decades of rigorous data collection and analysis from actual leaders across multiple industries and leadership levels.
Unlike conventional assessments that primarily measure capacity (skills and knowledge), our model provides a comprehensive evaluation by incorporating commitment and character dimensions. This approach delivers a significantly more accurate and holistic picture of both leadership potential and risk factors.
Our model’s scientific credibility comes from:
- Developed using established scientific methodology
- Validated through real-world testing with leaders in various organizations
- Refined to address evolving leadership challenges
- Benchmarked against normative data from diverse industries
We employ proprietary algorithms that analyze this robust dataset to predict not only who will succeed in leadership roles but also who might encounter difficulties. This predictive capability enables organizations to make more informed decisions about hiring, promotion, and leadership development investments.
By combining scientific rigor with extensive consulting expertise, the Worthy Leadership Model provides clear, actionable insights for building leadership teams that both perform effectively and earn lasting trust.
Identifying and Developing Leaders Worth Following
A leader worth following transcends the traditional definition of a high performer with impressive credentials. These exceptional leaders blend competence, passion, and integrity in ways that foster trust, build strong relationships, and deliver results benefiting the business, its people, and the broader community.
They represent more than effective leadership—they embody the kind of leadership that people willingly and proudly follow.
Whether you’re:
- Recruiting your next executive
- Strengthening your leadership pipeline
- Reimagining your approach to assessing leadership potential
The Worthy Leadership Model provides the clarity and confidence to focus your efforts on what truly matters in leadership.
Take the Next Step
Let’s collaborate to build a leadership team that your employees, customers, and community will genuinely be proud to follow.
Contact us today to explore how the Worthy Leadership Model can support your organization’s leadership goals and contribute to your long-term success.
Schedule your free consultation by clicking here!
Email: hello@worthyleadership.com
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