I Built This For You, Introducing the Authority Drift Index
Early in my leadership career I was obsessed with getting better. Every workshop, every book, every minute in the car spent listening to the biggest names in leadership. I was ticking every box. And I still couldn't understand why the people side of leadership wasn't getting any easier. In this episode I'm sharing why that was, and introducing something I built to solve exactly that problem.
In this episode:
00:00 The tapes in the car, my obsession with getting better
01:15 The uncomfortable truth about feedback and ego
02:30 Why I built the Authority Drift Index
03:45 The four pillars it measures
04:45 What I want you to feel when you get your result
05:45 It's live today, here's how to access it
The four pillars:
Decision Discipline, how clearly and consistently you make and stand by your decisions
Pressure Behaviour, how you show up when things get hard and the stakes are high
Standards Enforcement, how consistently you hold the line on what matters, even when it's uncomfortable
Responsibility Boundaries, whether you're holding your team accountable for their outcomes or quietly carrying the weight yourself
It's my birthday week, and the Authority Drift Index is live today.
It's free, it takes five minutes, and it's the most useful thing I've put out this year.
FULL TRANSCRIPT:
Early in my leadership career I was obsessed with getting better. Every leadership workshop I could find, I was there. Every book, I read it. Every minute in the car, I had a tape on, and later a CD. Peter Drucker, Jack Canfield, John Maxwell, Stephen Covey, Daniel Goleman.
I was ticking every box, doing all the things that great leaders do. And I still couldn't understand why the people side of leadership wasn't getting any easier. I knew what to do in the moment, but afterward I would feel tired and drained, like something important was still missing. And I couldn't find the answer in any of the books I was reading.
Today I want to tell you why, and introduce something I built to solve exactly that problem.
Here is the uncomfortable truth I eventually had to face. When you are the leader, your team is not always going to tell you where you're missing the mark. Not because they don't see it, but because the dynamic between a leader and their team makes that kind of honesty very rare. And even when the feedback does come through, our ego steps in. Our ego puts a veil over what we're hearing, to protect us from feeling hurt or feeling uncomfortable. We take from feedback only what we are ready and willing to hear in that moment.
I know this because I lived it. I was doing all the right things on paper, but I was filtering out the very information that would have helped me grow faster.
And here's what I've learnt from over two decades of leading teams and coaching leaders. This is not a weakness, it's a deeply human response. The problem is that it keeps us circling, second guessing ourselves, feeling like we're not quite enough, without being able to name exactly what needs to change.
I spent years looking for something that could cut through all of that noise. A tool that could ask the deeper questions, in a space where a leader feels comfortable enough to answer honestly. And I couldn't find it. So I've built it.
The Authority Drift Index came from everything I know about what actually shifts leadership. Not the theory, not the beautiful frameworks, but the moment a leader sits in a quiet space, away from the pressure and the noise, and genuinely reflects on their own thought patterns. That's what great coaching does. It creates a comfortable space that asks the questions that cut through our ego's defences. And in that space, that's where the real understanding happens. That's where a leader sees their own behaviour through a different set of filters and gets a deeper picture of their strengths and of their stretches.
The Authority Drift Index is that experience, in five minutes, for free. It measures your leadership authority across four pillars.
Decision Discipline, how clearly and consistently you make, and stand by, your decisions.
Pressure Behaviour, how you show up when things get hard and the stakes are really high.
Standards Enforcement, how consistently you hold the line on what really matters, even when it's uncomfortable.
And Responsibility Boundaries, whether you're holding your team accountable for their outcomes, or quietly carrying the weight yourself.
Your result puts you in one of four bands, and each band gives you specific, honest feedback on what you're doing well, and exactly where the drift is happening. Not generic leadership advice. Your pattern, your next move.
I want to tell you what I actually built this for. Not the quiz mechanics, not the score. The feeling that I want you to have when you read your result. I want to save you from the time we all spend circling around with those thoughts in our head. The second guessing, the self doubt, the quiet feeling of not being quite enough, that so many leaders carry around with them, often completely invisibly.
When you finish the Authority Drift Index, I want you to feel two things. The first thing I want you to feel is clarity. Not a vague sense of something that needs to change, but a specific understanding of what's actually going on in your leadership right now. Named, clear, and actionable.
And the second thing I want you to feel is seen. I want you to read your result and feel recognised in what you're doing really well. Because most leaders are doing more right than they realise, and they deserve to know that.
This is your opportunity to sit in a comfortable space, away from the pressure of the role, and take an honest look at what might be going on. Not to judge yourself, but to understand yourself. Because understanding your patterns gives you the power to change them. And changing them is how you become the version of yourself that leads in the best way possible.
It's my birthday week, and I can't think of a better way to mark it than by giving you something I genuinely wish I'd had earlier in my leadership journey.
The Authority Drift Index is live today. It's free, it takes five minutes, and it will tell you more about where your leadership authority stands right now than most leaders learn in a year of workshops and books.
Here's how to access it.
Click the link below in this video, take the quiz, read your result honestly, and then decide what you want to do about it.
If your result shows that there's work for you to do, I have some options to support you, from a thirty minute debrief with me personally, through to a deeper intensive for leaders who are ready to really recalibrate their authority from the ground up.
Let's start with the quiz. https://www.edgeofpossibilities.com.au/authority-drift-index-take-the-quiz
It's free.
You can type drift in the comments and I'll send it straight to you, or click on the link below right now.
I'll see you in the results.
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PUBLISH DATE: Monday 15 June 2026 at 6:00am AEST EPISODE LENGTH: 6 minutes 28 seconds THUMBNAIL: Birthday week launch thumbnail, ADI cover