Overview
Programme Philosophy
Know Yourself to Lead Yourself is the foundational programme of all our bespoke journeys because before you can lead others effectively, you need to understand how you think, communicate, and show up. From here we design a bespoke journey based on your team requirements.
At the heart of this experience is the 5 Voices, a simple yet powerful framework that reveals how you naturally lead, communicate, and build trust. It helps you understand your instinctive style, how others differ, and how to adapt your approach to increase your impact.
Leaders discover that while we all have access to five distinct voices, the order in which we use them shapes how we respond – especially under pressure. By building awareness of these patterns, leaders gain the ability to lead with greater intention, flexibility, and confidence.
This programme creates the foundation for stronger communication, deeper relationships, and more effective, trust-based leadership.
What You’ll Gain?
- Deep self-awareness
Understand your natural leadership and communication style and how it impacts others. - Insight into others
Recognise different styles and learn how to adapt to build stronger relationships. - Improved performance under pressure
Identify how you respond in challenging situations and how to stay effective. - Foundations for growth
Build the awareness needed to develop as a leader and lead more intentionally.
Programme Design
This programme combines insight, reflection, and practical application through: online assessment, 1:1 debrief and reflection and an interactive live workshop.
All programmes begin here, forming the foundation for a bespoke leadership journey tailored to your team’s needs.
Why it Matters?
Leaders with greater self-awareness, have:
Stronger relationships and trust – leaders who understand themselves and others build deeper, more effective connections.
Better communication and influence – adapting your style leads to clearer messages and greater impact.
More inclusive, psychologically safe teams – awareness of differences creates environments where people feel valued and heard.
A foundation for all leadership development – self-awareness underpins every aspect of effective leadership.
What clients are saying
“I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for this fantastic meeting. This was by far one of the best meetings of this kind I ever attended. I felt it was really well thought through and properly build. Some really tangible outcomes for us as team and individuals and I really loved the sports exercises. Overall great idea to remind us about the holistic approach of taking care not only about our minds, but also bodies.”
“Thank you Paula, Matt and the Escentia team for a truly amazing journey. Fostering a mindset that embraces change and harvests resilience is never easy. Your programme gave us an excellent framework to work with and easy steps to follow. With practice and focus we now see impactful results! What an amazing close to our programme and watching our team on the last day was super inspiring!!!! We certainly chose the right partners.”
“The resilience 5 Voices session were surprisingly enlightening. I must say, it was the most interesting profile I have ever completed. I feel that the insights provided have given me a conscious understanding of how I am and how I am perceived. Great tools to have when pressure is high. And the best thing is that it can be used not just at work but also at home and in life, which I find very impressive. I have participated in various profiling exercises throughout my career, and none have matched the standard and results of these.”
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