What the Heatmap reveals
Visibility where it matters most.
The Heatmap surfaces patterns that indicate where risk is accumulating long before it becomes visible in performance. It helps leaders see:
- Critical roles carrying disproportionate strain
- Leadership judgment under pressure and ambiguity
- Talent systems where progression or succession is fragile
- Informal power dynamics shaping outcomes
- Cultural signals that weaken leadership resilience
- Quiet depletion and identity-based load
- Early indicators of future leadership fragility
This is not a development tool. It's a governance tool designed for organisations where leadership and talent decisions carry material consequence.
How the Heatmap Works
A structured assessment across six architectural layers
The Heatmap draws on the Leadership & Talent Architecture™, assessing risk across the six layers that shape leadership capacity and organisational sustainability.
Layer 1: Context & Strategic Reality
Where external pressure, growth or scrutiny create conditions for leadership strain.
Layer 2: Leadership Capability & Capacity
How much load leaders are holding, and how consistently judgment can be sustained.
Layer 3: Talent Systems & Decisions
Where progression, succession and appointment decisions create vulnerability.
Layer 4: Culture & Informal Power
How informal influence dynamics strengthen or weaken resilience.
Layer 5: Individual Energy, Identity & Trajectory
Where depletion, identity-linked pressure or stalled progression accumulate.
Layer 6: Outcomes, Risk & Sustainability
The downstream impacts that shape trust, continuity and performance.
Heatmap Lite vs Full Heatmap
Two tools. Two different purposes. One architecture.
Heatmap Lite: A simplified, self-reflective view of where risk may be clustering.
Leadership & Talent Risk Heatmap™: A structured, evidence-based assessment used by Boards and senior leaders to understand severity, root causes and system-level drivers.
Heatmap Lite surfaces signals. The full Heatmap reveals what sits beneath them.