How ready is your accumulated leadership capital to create value
beyond the role you hold today?
A significant leadership career produces far more than experience.
It produces judgment, relationships, perspective, credibility and
knowledge that may have value far beyond the institution in which
they were accumulated.
This private assessment considers how deliberately those assets are
being given a life beyond your current operational role.
Begin with one question
If your current title disappeared tomorrow, how much of your
leadership contribution would continue without it?
15 questions Β· approximately 6β8 minutes Β· private
1 of 5Clarity
1
Clarity
How clearly have you decided what you want your contribution
beyond the role to become?
1. I can describe, in one or two sentences, the contribution
I want to make beyond the boundaries of my current executive role.
2. I know which opportunities I want to say yes to over the
coming years β and which I deliberately want to refuse.
3. I have a clear picture of what I want my accumulated
experience to enable, rather than simply a list of possible
activities.
Please answer all three statements before continuing.
2 of 5Portable Authority
2
Portable Authority
How independently can your judgment, relationships and credibility
create value beyond the institution?
4. People seek my judgment because of what I know and how I
think, not only because of the position or institution I represent.
5. I have meaningful relationships and credibility that would
remain active if my current title changed tomorrow.
6. I am increasingly known for particular ideas, areas of
judgment or leadership expertise β not simply for the organisation
I lead.
Please answer all three statements before continuing.
3 of 5Codified Judgment
3
Codified Judgment
How much of what you know now exists beyond your memory and
individual presence?
7. I can identify the lessons, principles or frameworks from
my career that would be genuinely valuable to other leaders.
8. Important parts of what I have learned exist somewhere beyond
my own memory β in writing, frameworks, talks, recordings,
methodologies or other intellectual assets.
9. I could clearly answer:
βWhat do you know after decades of leadership that cannot be
learned from a textbook?β
Please answer all three statements before continuing.
4 of 5Contribution Architecture
4
Contribution Architecture
Have you deliberately created the vehicles through which your
accumulated leadership capital can now create value?
10. I have deliberately chosen the vehicles through which I want
to contribute β such as governance, advisory, investing, mentoring,
institution-building, writing or speaking.
11. I have begun building the relationships, positioning and
infrastructure required for those activities to exist independently
of my current role.
12. Opportunities that come to me increasingly fit a coherent
direction rather than being a collection of unrelated invitations.
Please answer all three statements before continuing.
5 of 5Independence & Selectivity
5
Independence & Selectivity
Can your contribution grow without recreating another demanding
operational role around you?
13. The contribution I am building can create significant value
without requiring me to be personally involved in everything.
14. I have clear boundaries around how much time, access and
operational responsibility I want to carry in this phase of my
leadership.
15. If my current executive role changed tomorrow, I would know
what to begin building rather than simply waiting to see what
opportunities appeared.
Please answer all three statements before viewing your profile.
Your Leadership Beyond the Role Profile
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Your Five Dimensions
Your strongest asset
Your largest opportunity
What would you most like to have deliberately in place
three years from now?
Private Executive Briefing
Discuss Your Profile Privately
Your results show where your accumulated leadership capital
is already portable β and where it may still depend on your
current role or personal involvement.
If you would value a confidential conversation about what
these results could mean for your own leadership beyond the role,
you are invited to schedule a Private Executive Briefing with
the Legacies of Africa team.
