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Personify Leadership

by Michelle Cummings

Insights, Guidance, and Action

Personify Leadership: Mastering the Eight Essentials

This assessment measures your competence across eight essential leadership skills, giving you a clear picture of your strengths and growth opportunities. It is designed for emerging leaders, experienced managers, executives, and anyone committed to leading with confidence, clarity, and impact.

In a leadership landscape where challenges are complex and constant, success depends on the ability to adapt, inspire, and stay true to your values. This assessment helps you uncover the habits and behaviors that drive performance, connection, and resilience.

Make a lasting impact

By measuring your skills across eight proven competencies, you’ll gain actionable insight into how you lead, and where you can grow, so you can inspire your team, achieve your goals, and make a lasting impact.

Proven
Draw on a proven leadership framework built from decades of research, practical experience, and global training with leaders at every level. Quickly identify where attention is needed and take targeted action.
Insightful
Receive a clear, detailed picture of your leadership style and how it impacts your team’s performance, culture, and engagement.
Impactful
Empower yourself and your team with the clarity to focus on behaviors that make the greatest difference in trust, collaboration, and results.
Comparative
See how your leadership skills compare with peers across industries, roles, and geographies to gain perspective on your unique strengths and opportunities.

Eight Essential Leadership Skills

Each skill is represented by a part of the body to help you easily remember and apply the concepts in real time:

Heart: Intentional Leadership. Lead with empathy, connection, and trust.
Mind: Emotional Resilience. Stay calm, focused, and adaptable in challenging situations.
Voice: Purposeful Communication. Communicate clearly and respectfully for mutual understanding.
Ears: Active Listening. Listen deeply and without distraction.
Hands: Developmental Delegation. Delegate effectively to build capability and capacity.
Feet: Accountability in Action. Model the mindset and behaviors you want to see in others.
Spine: Courageous Conversations. Demonstrate courage and integrity, even under pressure.
Eyes: Vision and Execution. Create and pursue a clear vision for success.

Insights, Guidance, and Action

This assessment doesn’t just measure skills - it provides practical guidance for improvement. You’ll receive examples and strategies you can apply immediately to strengthen your leadership impact.

Leadership in Action

In today’s fast-changing environment, strong leadership requires more than technical skill. It calls for adaptability, emotional intelligence, and the courage to act in service of others. The eight essential skills assessed here form a leadership “muscle” that grows stronger with use - and becomes a lasting advantage in any role.

Michelle Cummings

Author

Michelle Cummings, M.S. is the Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Personify Leadership, a leadership development company known for its bold, experiential approach to building real-world leadership skills. With over two decades of innovation behind her, Michelle co-designed the Personify Leadership model, built on eight body-based competencies that bring leadership to life. Her methods don’t just teach, they transform how people lead.

A dynamic speaker and engaging storyteller, Michelle blends energy with expertise to spark insight and action. Michelle brings a powerful message to every stage: leadership isn’t reserved for a few, it’s in all of us. All Personify Leadership courses are hands-on, memorable, and packed with tools leaders can use immediately.