Indlar Leadership Lens ®
Eight dimensions. Eight minutes. One profile of the brain you are actually leading with — not the one you present professionally.
Free · 8 minutes · No email required until results
Because this is self-report, you are asking your conscious mind to describe unconscious processes — which it can only partially see. Treat your results as a provocation, not a verdict.
Your results will show you
- Which of the five leaders you are
Remi, Alex, Sasha, Kai, or River. Each is built from thirty years of working with real leaders. One of them will feel uncomfortably familiar. - Your scores across eight dimensions of hidden brain leadership
From decision awareness and inherited patterns to body intelligence and emotional contagion. Each dimension is explained in plain language with the science behind it. - Three actions you can put in place immediately
Specific, behavioural, and designed to take no more than fifteen minutes each. Not a development plan. Something you can do today. - The chapter of the book written for exactly where you currently are
The Hidden Brain: Why Smart Leaders Make Bad Decisions publishes 1 August 2026. Your results tell you which chapter to read first.
Eight dimensions. Eight chapters. One framework.
The stranger within
Ch.1 · How aware you are that your hidden brain is making decisions ahead of your conscious mind
The rational myth
Ch.2 · Whether your analytical intelligence is serving genuine inquiry or defending conclusions already reached
Inherited patterns
Ch.3 · How much of what you call leadership style is actually inherited pattern running on autopilot
Body intelligence
Ch.4 · How well you receive and use the somatic signals your body generates during decisions
Narrative identity
Ch.5 · Whether your leadership story is something you examine and revise — or something that examines you
The room beneath
Ch.6 · How consciously you lead the emotional field — what you broadcast, absorb, and create conditions for
Rewiring capacity
Ch.7 · How deliberately you are practising neural change, not just repeating what you already do well
The human edge
Ch.8 · How fully you are leading with what is irreducibly human — what no algorithm will ever replicate
About Dr Lynda Shaw
Dr Lynda Shaw is a behavioural neuroscientist and leadership psychologist whose doctoral research specialised in unconscious processing of emotion. For thirty years she has worked with C-suite leaders across financial services, law, technology, and professional services — helping them understand why intelligent people make poor decisions, and what to do about it.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine · Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society · Past President and Hall of Fame inductee, Professional Speaking Association UK & Ireland · Author, Your Brain is Boss and The Hidden Brain: Why Smart Leaders Make Bad Decisions
The INDLAR Leadership Lens
Every significant decision you have made in your career was shaped by a brain you have never formally introduced yourself to. This assessment is that introduction.
Eight dimensions drawn directly from Why Smart Leaders Make Bad Decisions. Twenty-four questions. One profile pattern of the brain you are currently leading with.
"Because this is self-report, you are asking your conscious mind to describe unconscious processes — which it can only partially see. Treat your results as a provocation, not a verdict."
Answer as you actually behave. Not as you aspire to.
Twenty-four questions · Approximately eight minutes
Your profile pattern is ready
You have answered all twenty-four questions. Your hidden brain profile — including your character archetype, eight dimension scores, and three immediate actions — is waiting.
Your hidden brain profile
This is a portrait of the brain you are currently leading with. Use it as a provocation, not a verdict.
Why Smart Leaders Make Bad Decisions — Notice more. Make better decisions. — gives you the science, the characters, and the practical framework to work with this profile. The stranger in your boardroom has been there your entire career. You have now been introduced.
Register interest for the book — out 1 August 2026