Complete your
Leadership OS.
A self-guided process. Seven steps. About 90–120 minutes. You leave with four working documents about how you lead.
What this is
Leadership OS is a structured process for developing a working model of how you operate as a leader — grounded in assessment data, behavioral patterns, and structured reflection rather than self-description alone.
It combines three inputs: a personality assessment, a behavioral audit of your AI conversation history, and six structured reflection prompts. Your AI tool synthesizes these into working documents you can use, share, and update over time.
What you will produce
What this is not
Not a personality test. The outputs are not scores or types. They are working documents.
Not executive coaching or therapy. Leadership OS produces self-knowledge. What you do with it is up to you. If anything in this process surfaces something that feels clinical or distressing, set it aside and talk to a professional.
Not a validated psychometric instrument. The outputs are hypotheses grounded in inputs — not scientifically validated findings. Some will be accurate immediately. Some will need correction. Your job is to notice which is which.
What you will need
- 90–120 minutes of uninterrupted time (one sitting recommended)
- Access to PrinciplesYou — free at principlesyou.com
- Access to at least one AI tool: ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini
- Somewhere to save your outputs: Google Docs, Notes, or a folder on your computer
A note on quality
The quality of your Leadership OS outputs depends almost entirely on the quality of your inputs. Vague reflection responses produce generic documents. Specific, honest responses produce a profile that surprises you with its accuracy.
The reflection section asks for real situations — specific examples with enough detail to be useful. That specificity is the work. Do not rush it.
Assessment
Inputs.
The scientific anchor. Personality assessments establish validated hypotheses about your tendencies that behavioral and reflection input will then confirm, complicate, or contradict.
Step 1A — Take PrinciplesYou
Why PrinciplesYou: It is free, takes about 20 minutes, and produces output in language immediately useful for development conversations. It is grounded in Big Five personality science without requiring you to interpret raw factor scores.
What to capture from your results
- Your primary archetype and its description
- Your secondary attributes
- The archetypes you are least like
- Any facet-level scores that seem unusually high or low
- The "You in Context" sections (how you interact, lead, plan, solve problems, handle stress)
Example of what to save:
Primary archetype: The Strategist. Secondary attributes: Growth Seeker, Deliberate. Least like: Improviser, Individualist.
Notable facet scores: Curious 78th percentile, Systematic 82nd percentile, Adaptable 71st percentile, Agile 55th percentile
Step 1B — Alternative assessments (optional)
If you have results from any of the following, include them alongside PrinciplesYou:
- Free at hexaco.org
- ~15 minutes
- Six factors with four facets each
- Recommended — adds Honesty-Humility dimension that Big Five misses
- Paid (Gallup)
- Focuses on talent themes
- Useful for Leadership Identity construct
- Include Top 10 results if you have them
- Free at ipip.ori.org
- Five factor scores with facets
- More technical than PrinciplesYou
- Include facet scores, not just factors
- PrinciplesYou completed and results saved
- Any additional assessment results saved and labeled with instrument name
- You know where these files are
Corpus
Audit.
Behavioral signals from how you actually work. Not what you say about yourself — what a review of your actual work conversations suggests about you.
What corpus signal is
If you use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any AI tool regularly, you have accumulated a behavioral record. Every decision you worked through, every communication you drafted, every problem you framed — that interaction left a record of how you were thinking at the time. The corpus audit asks your AI tool to identify patterns across that conversation record.
This is the piece that makes Leadership OS different from any assessment that came before it. Assessments ask you to describe yourself. The corpus audit asks the system that reviewed your work conversations to describe what it saw.
What makes a strong corpus
- Strategic or analytical work (not just "summarize this article")
- Decision-making conversations
- Communication drafts — emails, presentations, messages
- Problems you worked through in real time
- Recurring topics and themes over time
The Corpus Audit Prompt
Copy the prompt below and paste it into your AI tool. Do not edit it. Run it in the same AI tool where most of your professional conversations live.
Tool-specific instructions
- Paste in the account where most work conversations live
- If you use Projects, paste inside the relevant project
- ChatGPT's memory feature will draw on accumulated context
- Paste in a conversation in Claude
- If you use Projects, paste inside the project with the most relevant context
- Claude will draw on project memory and shared files
- Paste into Gemini
- Gemini Advanced draws on history associated with your Google account
- Use the same Google account you use for work conversations
What to do with the output
Limitations to keep in mind
The corpus audit captures written professional communication. It may not represent how you communicate verbally or informally, how you behave under significant stress or conflict, or any part of your professional life handled without AI assistance. These are not failures of the methodology — they are honest limits of the input.
- Corpus audit prompt pasted and run in your primary AI tool
- Output saved and labeled with date
- Surprises and inaccuracies noted separately
Structured
Reflection.
Six prompts that surface what no assessment can reach — specific behavioral examples from your actual work: how you appeared to operate under pressure, in decisions, and in relation to others.
Three ways to complete this section
- Paste the guided interview prompt into a new AI conversation
- The AI asks one question at a time
- Conversational reflection surfaces more than writing alone
- Best for most people
- Answer each prompt in writing below or in a separate document
- Best for precise, detail-oriented thinkers
- Take your time — do not rush
- Record a voice memo answering each prompt
- Use phone transcription or Otter.ai / Whisper
- Paste transcript into notes or AI directly
- Often produces richer, less edited responses
Prompt 1 — Peak Performance
Prompt 2 — Decision Process
Prompt 3 — A Decision You'd Make Differently
Prompt 4 — Recurring Frustration
Prompt 5 — Energy Sources
Prompt 6 — The Misread
Guided AI Interview Prompt (Option A)
If you chose the AI-led interview, copy the prompt below and paste it into a new conversation with your AI tool. Tell it you are ready to begin when you want to start.
- All six prompts answered (via writing, voice, or AI interview)
- Responses saved and labeled
- If AI interview: summary output saved and labeled
- Anything that felt important or surprising noted separately
Analysis
Engine.
This section combines all three inputs. One prompt teaches your AI the Leadership OS methodology. Then you provide your inputs and run the pattern analysis.
Step 4A — The Initialization Prompt
Copy the entire prompt below and paste it as your first message in a new AI conversation. Do not edit it. Wait for the AI to confirm it is ready before providing your inputs.
Step 4B — Provide the inputs
After the AI confirms it is ready, send the three inputs as separate messages, in order:
Label it: "Here are my assessment results from PrinciplesYou [and any other instruments]:" Then paste the full results.
Label it: "Here is my corpus audit output — the behavioral patterns my AI observed across my conversation history:" Then paste the full corpus audit response.
Label it: "Here are my responses to the six Leadership OS reflection prompts:" Then paste all six responses or your AI interview summary.
Step 4C — Run the pattern analysis
After providing all three inputs, send this message:
- Initialization prompt pasted and AI confirmed readiness
- All three input inputs provided as separate messages
- Pattern analysis prompt sent and response received
- Analysis output saved and labeled
- Surprises and inaccuracies marked
Construct
Analysis.
The intermediate step between inputs and outputs. Before generating documents, the AI evaluates each Leadership OS construct across all three inputs and builds a working model of how you operate.
What construct analysis is
A construct is a specific dimension of leadership behavior — like Decision Style or Self-Awareness — that Leadership OS is designed to surface. Construct Analysis is the process of evaluating the input you have provided against each of these dimensions and generating hypotheses about how you operate within each one.
This is not producing personality scores. It is not assigning you to a type. The AI is weighing input across three modalities — assessment, behavior, and reflection — identifying where they converge and where they conflict, and expressing appropriate confidence in each finding. The result is a working model of your leadership patterns, not a definitive description of who you are.
The nine Leadership OS constructs
Reflection Orientation · Systems Orientation · Learning Orientation · Decision Style · Communication Patterns · Leadership Identity · Adaptability · Self-Awareness · Development Readiness
For each one, the AI will identify: what the input shows, where sources agree or conflict, and how confident it is in the finding.
The Construct Analysis Prompt
Send this as your next message after the pattern analysis in Section 4. The AI will evaluate all nine constructs across your three inputs.
The Leadership Profile artifact
The construct analysis output is your Leadership Profile — the intermediate layer between your inputs and your output documents. (See a worked example of all of these →) It is not a document you share externally. It is the working model your AI will use to generate the four output documents in Section 5.
The Leadership Profile is private by design. It contains the full reasoning — including tension points, low-confidence hypotheses, and developmental implications — that you may not want to share in full. The output documents (User Manual, Working-With-Me Guide) are the edited, shareable versions derived from this profile.
- Construct analysis prompt sent in the same conversation as Section 4
- All nine constructs evaluated with confidence levels
- Leadership Profile summary generated
- INSUFFICIENT constructs noted — these will be thin in output documents
- Any clearly wrong findings corrected before moving to Section 5
- Leadership Profile saved and labeled
Output
Generation.
Run each prompt in the same conversation as Sections 4 and 4b. The AI will draw on your Leadership Profile to generate each document. One at a time. Read and correct each before moving to the next.
Document 1 — Leadership User Manual
Document 2 — Working-With-Me Guide
Document 3 — AI Calibration Document
Document 4 — Development Roadmap (private)
Saving your outputs
- Leadership User Manual generated, reviewed, and corrected
- Working-With-Me Guide generated, reviewed, and corrected
- AI Calibration Document generated and pasted into your primary AI tool
- Development Roadmap generated, reviewed, and saved privately
- All four documents saved in accessible locations
Maintenance
Guide.
Leadership OS is only as useful as the inputs it is built on. This section tells you what to do, when, and what to let go.
- Read your Leadership User Manual once, without editing
- Note what has already proven accurate
- Note what surprised you when it showed up in real work
- Update your AI Calibration Document if something important is missing
- Do not edit other documents yet — let them sit
- Revisit your Development Roadmap
- Answer the monitoring questions honestly
- Run the 90-day review prompt below
- Update Development Roadmap based on what you learned
- Correct any Leadership User Manual section that experience has proven inaccurate
- Run a full Leadership OS session again with new examples
- Fresh corpus audit — more history means richer input
- New reflection responses with recent examples
- Keep the previous version — the delta between versions is itself informative
- Label the new version by date
90-Day Review Prompt
At 90 days, paste your current Development Roadmap into your AI tool alongside this prompt:
What should evolve vs. remain stable
- Development Roadmap — every 90 days
- Monitoring questions — as old ones become automatic
- Behavioral examples — add new ones while fresh
- AI Calibration Document — as you evolve
- Core trait profile — changes slowly
- Flow conditions — usually consistent across years
- Governing principles — the non-negotiables
- Previous versions — keep them, the evolution matters
- Development edges you have genuinely resolved
- Behavioral examples that no longer feel representative
- Monitoring questions you no longer need
- Document sections experience has proven consistently inaccurate
Research
Participation.
An optional invitation — not a requirement, not a condition of access. Completely your choice.
Leadership OS is an early-stage methodology. Understanding whether it produces useful insights across different leaders, roles, and contexts requires more than one person's experience. If you are willing, you can optionally contribute anonymized data from your session to a research dataset.
What would be collected (if you choose to participate):
Your role level, industry, function, and approximate years leading people · Organization size · Which inputs you completed · A summary of your construct profile — for example, "high confidence Systems Orientation, moderate confidence Adaptability" — not your actual responses or documents · Which reflection mode you used
What would never be collected:
Your name, organization, or any identifying information · Your reflection responses or interview transcript · Your corpus audit output · Your assessment results · Your output documents · Any content that could identify you or your organization
Why it matters
The most interesting question Leadership OS is positioned to investigate is whether the gap between self-reported assessment scores and AI-observed behavioral patterns is meaningful and measurable across a large population. That question cannot be answered from one person's experience. It requires data from many.
How to participate
If you would like to contribute your anonymized construct profile, send an email to mikejcilla@gmail.com with the subject line Leadership OS Research Participation and include the items listed under "What would be collected" above.
You can withdraw your participation at any time by emailing the same address.
Quick
Reference.
The complete prompt sequence
Time estimates
| Section | Activity | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome | Read and setup | 5 min |
| Section 1 | PrinciplesYou assessment | 20 min |
| Section 2 | Corpus audit | 15 min |
| Section 3 | Structured reflection | 35–40 min |
| Section 4 | Analysis engine + pattern synthesis | 15 min |
| Section 4b | Construct analysis + Leadership Profile | 10 min |
| Section 5 | Output generation | 20 min |
| Section 5 | Review and correction | 15 min |
| Total | ~135 min |
AI tool quick-start
- Click "New Chat" in left sidebar for a new conversation
- Stay in one conversation for Sections 4 and 5
- If context is lost, paste the initialization prompt again
- Click "+" or "New Conversation" for a new conversation
- Stay in one conversation for Sections 4 and 5
- Projects maintain context across sessions if needed
- Click "New Chat" at top left for a new conversation
- Stay in one conversation for Sections 4 and 5
- Gemini Advanced has better context retention
A final note
Your Leadership OS documents are a first draft, not a finished profile. Some findings will be accurate immediately. Some will require correction. Some will prove accurate over time in ways that aren't obvious today.
The document that will teach you the most is not the one you produce in this session — it is the one you produce 12 months from now, after experience has tested the first version against reality. Keep the first version. The evolution is the point.