Who Is Really Leading When You Are Under Pressure?
As a senior leader, you carry imprints from the wins and hard lessons that built your career. Under pressure, they take over. Discover which imprints are making your calls today, and whether they match your current context.
The identities that helped you succeed can also hold you back
It worked once … maybe it worked twice.
It earned you a promotion and a seat at the top table.
So you keep running those same patterns and behaviours.
This is your achieved identity. It is the way of leading you built from your first bosses, biggest wins and the mistakes you swore never to repeat.
Even as a senior leader, this identity is still making the calls for you when the context that shaped it is no longer relevant.
Pressure Reveals Your True Imprints
The pressure to deliver has never been higher. Your board and the market expect more, while the time to deliver keeps shrinking. In that squeeze, you lead on instinct.
When a strategic setback lands on your leadership team without warning
When a respected executive challenges your decision in front of the whole room
When your highest performing team tells you they are struggling every day
When you learn that three projects have to stop so one project can win
What you do in the next few seconds is your imprint at work. Can you recognise it?
Discover Your Leadership Imprints
Andrea Petrone, The CEO Whisperer and author of Reinvention at the Top, identifies five leadership imprints that shape how senior leaders act under pressure. Each one is a pattern you learned on your way up, with a strength that earned you results and a blind spot that shows when the stakes rise. Take the assessment to find out which ones are leading you today.
Name the imprints making your calls
See which patterns lead you and where a second imprint is pulling you in a different direction.
See your pattern under pressure
Discover how your imprints shape your decisions and relationships.
Take your next defining move
Walk away with one concrete action for your next high stakes meeting, and the question your imprints are asking you to answer.
Meet Andrea Petrone, The CEO Whisperer
Andrea Petrone coaches CEOs and senior leadership teams through the high-stakes moments that define careers such as transitions, crises, reinventions and the personal demands of leading under pressure. Known as The CEO Whisperer, he focuses on how leaders think, decide and perform when the stakes are highest. His work is built on what he's seen firsthand in the room with leaders at the top.
Over the past two decades, Andrea has worked internationally across Europe, the Middle East and Asia with leaders from global corporations, mid-market firms and management consulting companies. Before starting his entrepreneurial journey, Andrea spent more than twenty years in senior leadership roles, including CEO and managing director positions across the energy sector, construction and management consulting. His book, Reinvention at the Top: The Playbook for CEOs to Lead Under Pressure, distils that work into a practical guide for leaders.
FAQs
Who is this for?
This assessment is for CEOs, C-suite executives and senior leaders who carry the big calls. It is most revealing at moments of change such as a new role, rapid growth, a crisis, a transformation or a board that expects more.
What is this assessment about?
The Leadership Imprints assessment is based on Andrea Petrone's book, Reinvention at the Top: The Playbook for CEOs to Lead Under Pressure. It shows you which learned leadership patterns take over when you are under pressure. It also measures how aligned your leadership is across the three pillars of his Throughline methodology: Identity, Message and Presence.
Do I need to have read the book?
No, you come as you are. The assessment stands on its own, and you can read Reinvention at the Top to take your imprint further once you have your results.
How long does it take?
The assessment consists of 15 questions and only takes around 5 minutes. Answer from instinct.
Is it free?
Yes. The assessment and your full report are both free.
Who You Are No Longer Matches the Role You Hold
The leaders who reinvent at the top see their pattern first. In just 5 minutes, you'll discover insights that stay with you for every high stakes call that follows. Find out which imprints are still leading you under pressure, and what your current context needs from you next.