A practitioner's orientation

Before you
begin

Everything a practitioner needs to know before using the Inner Authority Suite — the platform, the instruments, the workflow, and what the facilitated context requires.

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01 — What this is

Not a psychometric.
Something different.

The Inner Authority Suite is a family of ten reflective instruments for leadership development, personal inquiry, and relational work. It is not a psychometric in the conventional sense — it does not produce normative scores, does not compare individuals against a population, and does not claim predictive validity for performance outcomes.

What it produces is structured territory for a facilitated conversation. The profile is not the conclusion. It is the beginning of a conversation about how this person is currently organised — their authority, their relationship patterns, their communication formation, and the gap between how they experience themselves and how the field receives them.

"A score tells you what someone does. The Inner Authority Suite was built to map what is driving it — the belief system operating beneath the behaviour, and what happens to authority and self-expression when the pressure rises."

02 — The framework

Three levels.
One integrated picture.

Most leadership instruments profile the individual in isolation. The Inner Authority Suite holds three dimensions simultaneously — treating them as constantly shaping each other.

Level one · Inner person
How authority and relationship are currently organised
Ego state distribution, belief schemas, shadow material — the patterns operating beneath the behaviour, formed before this role and now shaping how the person functions in it.
IAP RAP SI LI PAP RSP
Level two · Relational field
How others actually experience this person
The gap between self-experience and relational reality. How colleagues experience the leader across the same six ego state dimensions — anonymously. Often the most generative data in a programme.
360 PPR
Level three · Systemic context
How the organisation shapes what is possible
Where the leader's communication formation and the organisation's culture are misaligned. What the system is producing that is being experienced as a personal difficulty.
CFP CCP
03 — The instruments

Ten instruments.
One integrated platform.

Each instrument is a structured starting point for a facilitated conversation — not a verdict about a person.

IAP
Inner Authority Profile
Ego state organisation in leadership — how authority, care, and self-expression are currently held. 54 items, 7-point scale. The primary opening instrument.
⏱ 12 minutes54 items
Inner
RAP
Relational Authority Profile
Twelve belief schemas shaping professional authority — support, adequacy, approval, indispensability, and the expectation of difficulty. Grounded in schema theory.
⏱ 15 minutes48 items
Inner
SI
Shadow Profile
Ten open questions surfacing what operates outside awareness. AI-generated qualitative report. The report is structured around four sections — what is most presented, its shadow, what is difficult to own, and one thing to hold.
⏱ 20 minutesOpen format
Inner · Facilitated use only
LI
Leadership Inquiry
The internal model of leadership — inherited beliefs, formative figures, the gap between the leadership aspired to and the leadership actually delivered. AI-generated qualitative report.
⏱ 25 minutesOpen format
Inner
360
IAP Relational Mirror
Anonymous 360° companion to the IAP. The same six dimensions, rated by a minimum of three colleagues. The gap between self-report and rater composite is the primary clinical material.
⏱ 8 minutes per raterMin. 3 raters
Relational
PAP
Personal Authority Profile
The IAP framework reframed for personal and intimate life. Enables comparison between ego state organisation in professional and personal contexts — where the two pictures diverge is often where the most important material lives.
⏱ 12 minutes54 items
Relational
PPR
PAP Partner Reflection
A single-rater companion to the PAP. The client's primary relationship partner reflects on the same 54 ego state items, reframed as observed experience. Both names appear in every question. Report goes to practitioner only. The gap between the PAP and PPR profiles is where the most important relational material usually lives.
⏱ 12 minutes54 items · 1 rater
Relational · Facilitated use only
RSP
Relational Schema Profile
The RAP schema framework reframed for intimate relationships. The twelve belief patterns in personal and close relationship contexts — dependency, openness, adequacy, and containment.
⏱ 15 minutes48 items
Relational
CFP
Communication Field Profile
Seven dimensions rated twice — formation and organisation. The gap between them is where communication difficulties most often live. Grounded in Schein and Erin Meyer's Culture Map.
⏱ 10 minutes42 items
Systemic
CCP
Containment Capacity Profile
Twelve vignette-based situations across four pressure types — ambiguity, dependency, loss, and conflict. Maps what happens to systemic anxiety when it reaches a leader. Produces a pressure map and characteristic move.
⏱ 20 minutes12 vignettes
Systemic · Facilitated use only
04 — How it works

From registration
to report.

The platform is designed so that participants never need to log in or create an account. Everything is managed from the practitioner side.

1
Register as a practitioner
Create your account at the practitioner portal. Registered psychologists and psychotherapists are approved immediately. OD consultants, coaches, and other practitioners are asked to share a brief note on their theoretical background — access is matched to the framework the practitioner brings, not gatekept.
2
Add a client
Add your client's name and email to your dashboard. You can organise clients into programmes (cohorts) for a cleaner view when working with groups — or manage them individually for one-to-one coaching contexts.
3
Send an instrument
From your client's profile, choose which instrument to send. The client receives a personalised link by email — no login required, no account to create. The link takes them directly to the instrument.
4
Client completes the instrument
The client works through the instrument at their own pace. Most take between 10 and 25 minutes. They can save and return if needed. There is no time pressure and no right or wrong answers.
5
Report delivered immediately
On completion, the report is emailed to both the client and you simultaneously. The client has their report before the facilitated session. You have it in your practitioner portal alongside all previous instrument reports for that client.
6
Bring it into the session
The report is the beginning of the work, not its conclusion. It opens territory. The facilitated session is where the real inquiry happens — the practitioner's role is to hold the conversation the profile makes possible.
05 — The platform

Your practitioner
dashboard.

Everything in one place — all your clients, all their instruments, all their progress. For organisations running group programmes, a separate dashboard shows cohort-level data without exposing individual results.

innerauthoritysuite.com / portal / dashboard
12
Active clients
3
Programmes
34
Completions
78%
Completion rate
Client IAPRAPSI360CFP Status
A. Thornton 5 of 5
R. Singh 2 of 5
M. Webb 1 of 5
06 — What this requires

The facilitated
context.

The instruments are not self-service. They are designed to be used in a facilitated context — with a practitioner who has the theoretical formation to hold what surfaces. A profile read without a practitioner present is incomplete.

This is not a restriction. It is the design. The profile opens territory that requires someone trained to hold it. The most important material — what surprises the client, what they push back on, what they cannot yet see — only becomes available in a facilitated conversation.

"The profile is not the finding. It is the provocation. What the client does with it — where they push back, what surprises them, what confirms something they had not quite been able to name — that is the material."

Registered psychologists and psychotherapists may use the suite within their professional practice without additional requirement.

OD consultants, executive coaches, and other practitioners are asked to share a brief note on their theoretical background. Access is matched to the framework the practitioner brings — not gatekept.

The instruments are not for selection, appraisal, or clinical diagnosis. They are for facilitated reflective inquiry in leadership development, coaching, and OD contexts.

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