What is leadership integrity?
Leadership integrity is the observable alignment between a leader’s words and deeds, including promise keeping and consistency between espoused and enacted values.
Reflect on whether your promises, stated values, decisions, and explanations form a pattern other people can trust.
Answer as you are today
Choose the answer that best describes your recent behaviour at work. No email required.
What does leadership integrity mean?
Leadership integrity is the observable alignment between a leader’s words and deeds, including promise keeping and consistency between espoused and enacted values.
Why it matters at work
Intent is invisible to a team. People judge integrity through repeated behavior, especially when keeping a promise is inconvenient, interests conflict, or a decision needs a candid explanation.
What this assessment measures
Word–action alignment
Making commitments carefully and behaving consistently with stated priorities.
Fairness & values
Applying principles across status, pressure, and personal advantage.
Transparency & repair
Explaining decisions, admitting gaps, and repairing broken commitments.
How to interpret your score
Your overall result is normalised to a 0–100 scale. Use it to choose a practice area, not to compare your worth with somebody else.
Build your leadership integrity foundation
Your answers identify situations where a small, observable routine could make this capability more dependable.
A developing leadership integrity pattern
You show this capability in some conditions. Focus on the dimension that becomes least reliable under pressure.
A strong leadership integrity pattern
Your answers suggest a reliable pattern. Keep testing it against difficult situations and evidence from other people.
Designed for reflection, not diagnosis
The ten behaviour-based statements cover 3 practical dimensions. Responses run from “Never” to “Almost always”; negatively worded items are reverse-scored. Overall and dimension results are converted to a 0–100 scale. The assessment is educational and has not been psychometrically validated.
Read the full assessment methodology and editorial standards.
Research that informed this page
Tony Simons (2002), “Behavioral Integrity: The Perceived Alignment Between Managers’ Words and Deeds as a Research Focus”, Organization Science.