143 Leadership Assessment
Map the state of your internal operating system.
You are not a fixed type. You are a live system. The assessment shows where your light is available, where it is eclipsed, and what to train next.
THE PROBLEM WORTH SOLVING
The investment is going in. The behavior is not changing.
Two hundred and forty billion dollars per year goes into leadership development. Eight point eight trillion dollars per year walks out the door through disengagement. Seventy percent of team engagement variance comes from one variable. The manager. That is not a training problem. That is a design problem.
Most people are not broken, not unmotivated, and not lacking in potential. They are operating without a system. And the systems they have been handed assume a regulated nervous system that most of them are not currently running.
THE FIVE ANCHOR WORDS
The whole system rests on them.
THE FIVE ANCHOR WORDS
Your full capacity at rest, before any eclipse.
The patterns you run without thinking.
What blocks access to your capacity.
The slow pull away from your integrated self.
One intentional action that rewires a pattern.
HOW THE RETURN STARTS
Three stages. One return.
01 START
Take the 143 Challenge.
Three minutes a day for three days. The first rep of self-directed compassion. A nervous system check-in before any framework moves at you. Built for the leader running on borrowed capacity. No cost to start.
02 MAP
Get your Energy Star Chart.
The 20-section report plus a personalized 21-day Orbital Alignment plus Month 1 of the Daily Rep Engine. Your Top 2 Rays running clean. Your Bottom 2 where the return begins. Your first specific move identified.
03 RETURN
Keep the rep system open.
The Membership continues the Daily Rep Engine after Month 1. Twelve Tools. Light Dashboard. Three starter Goals Guides matched to your chart. Your retake unlocks when the reps bring all 9 Rays to 100.
THE NINE COMPONENTS OF THE INTEGRATED STATE
The nine Rays of Be The Light.
WHAT THIS IS AND WHAT IT IS NOT
No hype. No shortcuts. Structure and receipts.
NOT THIS
Give motivational speeches that fade by Friday.
Promise change without showing the mechanism. Use shame language to create urgency. Your gaps are not failures. They are capacities you cannot reach right now.
THIS
Translate peer-reviewed science into tools you can run Monday morning.
Build systems that produce measurable change. And show you the receipt at retake. Name the real thing plainly. Even when it is hard. Especially when it is hard.
THE OUTCOME
Four action modes. One system. Built from lived experience.
Outcome: you move from scattered effort to aligned execution. With proof that the shift is real. Not a feeling. A number. Take it. Train. Retake. Watch your Light Signature evolve. That is the path.
BUILT ON PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH
Every claim has a named researcher behind it.
RESEARCH
Gollwitzer, NYU
Implementation intentions. IF-THEN architecture pre-commits the brain to specific actions before the moment of choice. This is the backbone of the daily rep system.
New York University. 1999.
RESEARCH
Jha, Miami
Attention training under high-stress demand. Sustained attention can be trained even under load. The 143 Challenge is the entry point of that training.
University of Miami. 2010.
RESEARCH
Lally, UCL
Habit formation timelines in real-world conditions. New behaviors form on average in 66 days, not 21. The Orbital Alignment is calibrated to this, not the popular myth.
University College London. 2009.
RESEARCH
Moruzzi and Magoun
Reticular activating system. The brain's filter that decides what you notice. The 143 Challenge gives it new search instructions. Your scores tell you what it is currently tuned to find.
Original research, 1949.
RESEARCH
Milkman, Wharton
The Fresh Start effect. Temporal landmarks lower the psychological cost of change. The 21-day Orbital Alignment is a deliberate fresh start, not an arbitrary duration.
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. 2014.
RESEARCH
Brown, Houston
Shame resilience. Naming what got buried is the first move toward accessing it again. The Energy Star Chart names without shaming. That is the design, not a tone choice.
University of Houston. 2010.
WHERE DO YOU FIT
The framework serves three readers.
FOR THE LEADER
Returning to yourself.
You are mid-career. You are still performing. You are slowly narrowing. You want a framework that names what is happening and gives you specific moves to start running today. The full Growth Cycle: Energy Star Chart, 21-day Orbital Alignment, Daily Rep Engine.
Get your Energy Star ChartFOR THE ORGANIZATION
Buying leadership development.
Your leaders are running on borrowed capacity. Your existing development offerings are not landing. You want science-backed, practical content that meets your team where they actually are. Keynotes, workshops, and cohort programs are available.
Book a workshop conversationFOR THE COACH
Licensing a framework.
You have your own voice. You want a system your clients can name and return to. The 143 Leadership framework is licensable, with full curriculum and a coach certification program. Join the certification waitlist.
Join the certification waitlist