Week 3 – Define Your Leadership Identity

Define Your Leadership Identity

Leadership Lift – Week 3 Module

Define Your Leadership Identity

Module Overview

This module is about stepping into clarity and intention—owning the kind of leader you want to be, and helping others experience that with confidence and trust.

You’ll define your Leadership Identity: a powerful expression of your vision, values, leadership style, and legacy. This is more than a reflective exercise—it’s a strategic leadership tool that reduces ambiguity, builds trust, and enhances alignment across your team and relationships.

When your leadership identity is clear:

  • Others know how to work best with you

  • Communication becomes easier and more aligned

  • Trust is built faster, even in high-stakes or remote environments

  • You make decisions more confidently and consistently

From a neuroscience lens, clarity in leadership reduces cognitive load and psychological threat. It creates a sense of safety—because people can predict your values, behaviours, and responses. And in leadership, predictability = trust.

By completing this module, you’ll shift from reactive, unclear leadership, focussed too much on doing (sandcastle building) to purpose-driven, consistent leadership—the kind that cultivates high-performing relationships, long-term impact, and a stronger sense of self as a leader.

Sandpit Shift

From sandcastle builder to purpose-driven leader.

Neuroscience Insight:
Clear identity reduces brain ambiguity and builds psychological safety.

This is about letting go of reactive habits, and anchoring your presence in the clarity of who you are and how you lead:

🧠 knowing who you are and what you stand for,
💬 communicating your values and leadership style with confidence, and
⚡ creating trust by showing up with alignment and purpose.

And that begins with defining your Leadership Identity.

Key Takeaways

  1. Leadership identity is intentional—not accidental.

  2. Clarity creates psychological safety for others.

  3. You live your leadership legacy every day.

  4. Values are your anchor in complex moments.

  5. Clear identity helps others trust and align with you.

Workplace Experiment

Create your Leadership Profile using the provided template. Then:

  • Use your profile to introduce yourself in your Peer Pod.

  • Support others in your peer pod to introduce themselves.

  • Reflect in your peer pod by exploring how it felt to share it—what was clear, what felt vulnerable, what sparked feedback.

  • Take it a step further: reintroduce yourself using your Leadership Profile to your current team, your line manager, or other colleagues you work closely with.

Think of it like workplace dating: you’re letting people see the real leader behind the resume and asking—can we create a working relationship built on trust, alignment and understanding?

Resources

Reflection Quiz

This quiz helps you reflect on your weekly workplace experiment, evaluate your outcomes, and reinforce the key concepts. It’s designed to track whether you made the intended sandpit shift.