Leadership Circle 360° Feedback FAQ

What is the Leadership Circle Profile 360?

The Leadership Circle Profile 360 is the most robust and actionable assessment of your personal leadership brand available. Combining the scores of up to 20 evaluators, you will receive a clear picture of how they perceive your performance and style, detailed into 29 dimensions organized into eight categories. You’ll also gain insight into whether your greatest growth opportunities lie in building up your relationship skills or your achievement skills. Finally, you will see how your evaluators rank you in terms of leadership strength and how you rank, compared to the hundreds of thousands of leaders who have done the 360 before you.

The Leadership Circle Profile (LCP) is a revolutionary tool that combines traditional competencies with insights into the motivations and fears driving leader behaviors. Unlike conventional assessments, the LCP reveals both creative competencies and reactive tendencies, encouraging leaders to confront uncomfortable truths and uncover hidden potential.

With over 200,000 leaders surveyed, 3 million evaluations, and 300 million data points, the LCP is backed by robust empirical data. Its validity and reliability are confirmed by the Institute for Psychological Research and Application, making it a statistically superior tool for leadership development.

How long does it take to get my Leadership Circle Profile 360 results?

Once all survey responses have been completed and the survey closed by your coach, your coach will receive your results digitally within three hours. Your results will be presented to you via screen share with your coach so you must set up a debrief call to receive them. Your coach will send you your complete results after the first debrief session.

What challenges can the Leadership Circle Profile 360 help my team and me overcome?

When you receive your 360 results you’ll gain actionable insights into why you may struggle with aspects of leadership such as:

• Influential Leadership and Gaining buy-in
• Motivating others
• Building trusting business relationships
• Producing results
• Managing conflict
• Setting goals
• Building employee engagement and retention
• Getting tapped for promotion
• Leading change

Is the Leadership Circle Profile only available in a 360 format?

The Leadership Circle Profile is available in two formats:

• Self-assessment
• 360 feedback

As a part of the 360 assessment process, you will take a self-assessment, which is also available to you as a stand-alone report. You can take the self-assessment for free by registering on this page (below).

Although you can receive your self-assessment scores immediately, virtually everyone who takes the 360 learns that their self-assessment is not a good indicator of how they are viewed by their peers, bosses and direct reports. In the gap between these scores is the deepest learning, to understand how to bring your view of yourself into alignment with the way others experience you. This alignment is key to achieving influence and impact.

What are the results of the Leadership Circle Profile 360?

You will receive the results of your 360 feedback review during a coaching debrief session. The debrief will walk you through the high-level findings and trends, supporting you in identifying your primary takeaways. After the first debrief you’ll receive your complete results, which include:

• 360 graphic scores
• Data tables with results for each leadership dimension, broken out by reviewer
• Comparison of your self-assessed scores to other’s ratings
• Open responses to the questions your evaluators answered: What should this leader stop doing? Start doing? Keep doing?
• A detailed interpretation manual
• Your coaches suggested reflection questions to help guide you in looking through your results
• How does the Leadership Circle Profile 360 work?

Are the Leadership Circle Profile 360 responses anonymous?

There is no identifying information for your evaluators reported with either the quantitative or qualitative results you receive. The only exception to this is that only one person typically fills out the “boss” and “boss’ boss” questions, identifying them by default. Depending on the information provided by the respondents in the freeform questions, you may be able to identify specific open-ended respondents, however individuals may reply to these questions in ways that are intended to make this harder for you to determine. Respondents may also opt out of responding at all to the free-form questions.

If you do not have at least three responses in the Direct Report or Peer categories, these individuals’ responses will be included with the “other” category so that their scores are not singled out in the quantitative results.

How many evaluators do I need to complete a Leadership Circle Profile 360?

Your Leadership Circle Profile 360 score is developed by combining the scores of your evaluators and comparing them to your self-assessment scores. Each evaluator also has the opportunity to leave you open-ended advice in the following three areas: what you should stop doing, what you should start doing and what you should keep doing. 

You need to develop a list of between eight and twenty evaluators broken into this categories:

• Direct Reports (3+)
• Peers (3+)
• Boss (1)
• Boss’ Boss (2)
• Other

You will receive a combined score with everyone’s input as well as individual breakout scores in each of the categories above. (Note: to receive breakout scores for direct reports and/or peers you must have at least three individuals in each category complete their responses to the survey.)

Why did ViDA pick the Leadership Circle tool?

The LCP isn’t just feedback. It’s one of the most comprehensive tools in leadership development, providing a data-backed roadmap for real improvement. Built on insights from over 200,000 leaders, 3 million evaluations, and 300 million data points, the LCP is the gold standard for leaders who want more than just opinions—they want results.

WhAT DO I LEARN BY USING the Leadership Circle Profile?

The strength of the LCP lies in its precision and depth. Validated by the Institute for Psychological Research and Application, this tool goes beyond surface-level observations to deliver an in-depth analysis of your leadership.

It examines two critical dimensions:

1. Creative Competencies: The strengths that drive engagement, innovation, and team productivity.
2. Reactive Tendencies: Behavioral patterns that surface under stress and may hold you back—offering you a clear path to realign these tendencies for better outcomes.

This dual perspective is transformative. Leaders using the LCP report making sharper decisions, improving their influence, and increasing their ability to engage teams effectively. The result? Greater resilience, higher performance, and a clearer strategic vision to tackle any challenge.

Why Work with Me for Your 360 Review?

Here’s the thing: feedback is only as good as what you do with it. That’s where I come in.

With 20 years of leadership experience as an Olympic Gold Medalist, Stanford-educated coach, bestselling author, and trusted business advisor, I know how to turn insights into results. I help leaders transform data into actionable strategies that elevate their impact.

Here’s what you’ll gain when we work together:

• Clear, focused insights into your strengths and growth areas.
• Values-driven actions that translate into measurable improvement.
• Resilience and strategic focus for sustainable success.