Are You Inspiring? A Simple Quiz That Helps You Lead With Impact
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Leadership isn’t just about authority or results. It’s also about the influence you have on others. An inspiring leadership assessment like the one created by Dr Adam Galinsky can help you reflect on how others experience your leadership.
If you’re curious to explore this side of leadership, Dr Adam Galinsky has developed a short, research-based tool that can help.
What Is the Inspiring Leadership Assessment?
It’s a free leadership quiz developed by Dr Adam Galinsky, a respected organisational psychologist and author of Inspire: The Universal Path to Leading Yourself and Others. The quiz takes under five minutes and is based on research from hundreds of leaders across a range of industries.
The assessment focuses on three core qualities shared by inspiring leaders:
- Visionary – You offer a clear and hopeful sense of direction
- Exemplar – You act with integrity, courage, and consistency
- Mentor – You uplift others through support, care, and challenge
Where the Assessment Comes From
This quiz is drawn from the research behind Galinsky’s book, Inspire. The book explores the behaviours that make leaders more effective and more human. It challenges the idea that inspiration comes from charisma alone. Instead, it presents inspiration as something you can build through intention, reliability, and how you relate to others.
How It Works
You’ll respond to 18 statements that reflect different leadership behaviours. Once completed, the tool gives you an overall “Inspiration Score” and a breakdown of how you’re tracking in each of the three dimensions.
The quiz is practical, accessible, and clearly designed with busy professionals in mind. The statements are easy to interpret, and the results offer a simple framework for reflection. Whether you’re leading a team or looking to understand your leadership style better, the tool provides a quick pulse check.
Why It’s Helpful
Leadership roles often demand high output and constant problem-solving. That can make it hard to step back and reflect on how you’re influencing those around you.
This assessment works well as:
- A self-reflection tool
- A prompt for coaching conversations
- A way to start team discussions on leadership behaviours
If you’re a coach or psychologist, it can also support values-based coaching and conversations about leadership habits and interpersonal impact.
Ready to Try It?
You can take the quiz on Dr Adam Galinsky’s website. There’s no sign-up required, and your results appear straight away.
If it gets you thinking about your leadership style or how others experience working with you, this can be a helpful starting point. I often use tools like this in leadership coaching to explore strengths, patterns, and areas for growth in a grounded, practical way.
Feel free to get in touch if you’d like support interpreting your results or applying them in your role.
