You’ve attended the workshops. You’ve applied the frameworks. Your intentions are good, and your commitment is clear. Yet you still encounter resistance you can’t explain, notice impacts you never intended and manage recurring conflicts. Here is what is missing: understanding how your behaviour lands, and the unintended impact of your authority.
Most 360-degree tools measure competencies like communication, strategic thinking, and decision-making. These matter. But they don’t capture the invisible force shaping every interaction you have: the types of power you use and the impact it has on others. To fill the gap, you need actionable feedback on the impact of your behaviour and on how others experience your use of power.
What Makes the Diamond Performance Index (DPI) 360 Different
The Diamond Performance Index 360 is the only assessment tool specifically designed to measure power intelligence. It was built on decades of research by Dr. Julie Diamond, whose work I have studied and integrated into my practice over many years.
Unlike 360s that ask raters to evaluate your skills, the DPI 360 reveals:
- How others experience your power across different relationships and contexts
- The gap between your intentions and your impact when you are in positions of authority
- Patterns in how you use rank (positional, personal, psychological, and systemic)
- The specific power dynamics that drive conflict, resistance, or disengagement in your teams
- Blind spots on how your authority lands and of the power you carry into every room
The DPI 360 transforms abstract power concepts into concrete, actionable feedback. You don’t just learn that you need to “communicate better.” You discover precisely how your unexamined power is creating the communication breakdowns you are already experiencing.
Power Intelligence Is a Core Leadership Competency
In my work with senior leaders across government, healthcare, education, and the nonprofit sector, I have observed a consistent pattern: the leaders who transform conflict from a liability into a strategic advantage are those who have developed power intelligence.
Power intelligence is your awareness of:
- What power you hold (positional authority, subject expertise, identity-based privilege, psychological presence, and relational capital)
- How you are using it, consciously and unconsciously
- How others experience it, including the impacts you did not intend
- When to use which source of power, depending on context and relationship
This competency is foundational to everything else organizations are trying to build:
- Inclusive leadership: You cannot create psychological safety without understanding how your power shapes who speaks and who goes silent.
- Strategic decision-making: Effective decisions require you to use authority clearly while genuinely making space for dissent.
- Change management: Leading change means knowing when to assert direction and when to hold space for the uncertainty others are navigating.
- Team development: Growing your team’s capability requires you to calibrate when to direct, when to coach, and when to get out of the way.
- Stakeholder navigation: Managing across hierarchies demands sophisticated awareness of relative power and rank in every relationship.
The Power–Conflict Connection
When leaders don’t understand their own power, predictable patterns emerge:
- Overuse of positional authority produces compliance without commitment and passive resistance.
- Underuse of legitimate authority creates ambiguity and anxiety, leaving people unsure of what’s decided and who is accountable.
- Denial of power differences leads to false collaboration, where leaders claim to share decision-making while continuing to act unilaterally.
- Unawareness of systemic power (race, gender, tenure, education) allows harmful dynamics to persist invisibly and remain unaddressed.
The Productive Conflict Method, which I have developed over twenty years, integrates power intelligence throughout its three phases (introspect, integrate, and iterate). You cannot navigate conflict productively without understanding the power dynamics that structure it. To understand those dynamics, you need a clear view of how you use your power.
What You Receive in the Coaching and DPI 360 Package
The Power Intelligence Coaching and 360 Package is a structured engagement designed to move you from assessment to applied change:
- Full DPI 360 Assessment. Administered to your selected raters with confidentiality.
- Expert Debrief Session. A thorough interpretation session where we analyze your results together, identify key patterns and blind spots, and make meaning of the data.
- Strategic Development Plan. Concrete, context-specific practices for developing greater power intelligence targeted to your leadership goals and your real working environment.
- Ongoing Integration Coaching. Coaching to help you apply insights immediately and navigate the real-time challenges of using power more consciously.
This package is designed for leaders who are ready to close the gap between how they see themselves and how others experience them.
Explore the Power Intelligence Coaching & 360 Package
Questions about whether this assessment is right for you? Contact Jen directly to discuss your leadership context and goals.
