Leadership development, built for talent teams

Your pipeline is full of high performers. Are they ready to lead?

Lighthouse Leader Development helps talent management, talent acquisition, and L&D teams turn leadership potential into leadership readiness — with validated assessments, honest coaching, and workshops that change behavior.

Validated assessment suites — Hogan and Insights Discovery
1Validated assessment suites — Hogan and Insights Discovery
Leadership levels covered — manager to executive
2Leadership levels covered — manager to executive
Based in the U.S. with onsite and virtual workshops nationwide
3Based in the U.S. with onsite and virtual workshops nationwide

Built for the people responsible for leadership pipelines

Talent management

Succession planning and readiness decisions that need data you can defend to the business.

Talent acquisition

Assess leadership fit before the offer — not after the first ninety days.

Learning & development

Turn training budgets into measured behavior change at every level of leadership.

The leadership challenges we solve, level by level

Development that fails usually targets the wrong level. Each stage of leadership breaks differently — so we assess and coach differently at each one.

Level 1 · Manager

Promoted for individual performance, left to figure out people leadership alone.

  • 1New managers default to doing the work instead of leading the people who do it
  • 2Feedback conversations get avoided until problems are unfixable
  • 3Team performance plateaus without clear expectations and accountability

What we do about it

Validated assessments surface readiness gaps early; coaching builds the core habits of people leadership — feedback, delegation, and expectation-setting.

Validated approaches. One connected development path.

We are certified in the assessment suites talent leaders already trust — and we stay involved after the report lands, because a debrief without coaching changes nothing.

Predict performance. Catch derailment early.

Hogan Personality Inventories

The research-backed standard for predicting leadership performance — and the derailment risks that hide inside strengths. We administer the full Hogan suite and translate the results into coaching that changes behavior.

  • Full Hogan assessment administration (HPI, HDS, MVPI)
  • Structured one-on-one feedback debrief
  • Post-assessment coaching program
  • Development plan tied to role, level, and succession context
Ask about Hogan Personality Inventories
Sample Hogan assessment report panels showing personality traits, derailment risks, and core values

HPI · HDS · MVPI

A shared language for how people work and lead.

Insights Discovery

Color-energy profiles that give teams and leaders a common language for preferences, communication, and collaboration. We handle the whole arc — from evaluator certification to workshops to follow-on coaching.

  • Evaluator certification for your internal team
  • Workshop design and facilitation — onsite or virtual
  • Team, leadership, and sales applications
  • Individual and group coaching after the workshop
Ask about Insights Discovery
Leadership workshop in progress with a facilitator and participants

The four color energies

Inside the Insights Discovery evaluator

What the evaluator actually measures

The Insights Discovery evaluator is a short, accessible questionnaire that turns your preferences into a detailed personal profile. It doesn't label or limit anyone — it describes how a person prefers to think, communicate, and lead, and how that may differ from how others experience them.

What your profile captures

  • 1

    Conscious persona

    How you intentionally show up at work — the style you believe you're leading with.

  • 2

    Blind spots

    The gap between your intent and how colleagues actually experience you — often the most valuable page in the report.

  • 3

    Color energy preferences

    Your personal balance across the four color energies that drive communication and decision-making.

  • 4

    Insights wheel position

    Your position on the 72-type Insights wheel — a precise, shared shorthand for style that teams use every day.

The four color energies

Fiery Red

  • Determined
  • Competitive
  • Purposeful

Leads with clarity and drive — strong on direction and decisions, watchful of impatience.

Sunshine Yellow

  • Sociable
  • Dynamic
  • Persuasive

Leads with energy and optimism — strong on engagement and ideas, watchful of over-promising.

Earth Green

  • Caring
  • Encouraging
  • Patient

Leads with steadiness and values — strong on trust and inclusion, watchful of avoiding hard calls.

Cool Blue

  • Precise
  • Deliberate
  • Questioning

Leads with rigor and analysis — strong on quality and data, watchful of over-complicating.

Insights Discovery is a registered trademark of Andrew Lothian, Insights Learning & Development Ltd, Dundee, Scotland. All rights reserved.

How we work

01

Diagnose

Validated assessments establish an honest, defensible baseline of readiness and risk.

02

Design

Development plans and workshop agendas built around the data — not a generic curriculum.

03

Deliver

Coaching and facilitation onsite or virtual, at manager, director, and executive levels.

04

Measure

Progress reports your talent team can take into succession and talent reviews.

Start the conversation

Tell us where your pipeline is thin.

Whether you are filling succession gaps at the top, building your first-time manager program, or choosing an assessment partner — a short conversation will tell you whether we are the right fit.

For talent management, talent acquisition, and L&D leaders planning leadership development and succession.

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Leaders and coaches in a strategic working discussion