How do your members naturally build trust and influence people?
The Authentic Authority™ Archetype Quiz reveals what people instinctively trust your members for, where their authority may be misread, and how to communicate more deliberately when the stakes rise.
Trusted by 3,500+ leaders across industries.
Competent language is abundant. Credible human judgment is scarce.
AI can summarize the research, polish the message, and produce a respectable answer in seconds. Trust still determines whose judgment is believed, whose recommendation receives support, and which decision becomes action.
Your members are leading teams, influencing buyers, building relationships, presenting ideas, navigating transitions, and making consequential decisions. Knowing how they naturally create trust gives them an advantage they can use immediately.
What will your members discover?
Members leave with language for six questions that shape how they lead, communicate, and influence decisions.
Instinctive Trust
What people instinctively trust them for
Misread Strengths
How their strongest qualities can be misread
Trust Triggers
What different people need before they trust a decision
Authentic Adaptation
How to adapt without flattening their personality
Communication Friction
Where communication may create unnecessary friction
Credibility to Influence
How credibility translates into visibility, influence, and movement
From individual insight to a live member experience
The Authentic Authority™ experience moves from personal discovery to collective application in four clear steps.
TAKE
Members complete the Authentic Authority™ Archetype Quiz.
DISCOVER
Each participant receives one of five distinct authority patterns.
EXPERIENCE
Kristi makes the patterns relevant to real leadership, communication, visibility, and decision-making situations.
APPLY
Members leave knowing how to use their natural authority more deliberately and recognize what creates trust for other people.
Your members already have the authority. The quiz just shows them where the room is waiting for it.
Two ways to bring it to your community
CREATE A LIVE EXPERIENCE
Bring Kristi in for an interactive keynote, workshop, conference experience, leadership retreat, or member debrief built around the assessment.
SHARE THE QUIZ
Offer the Authentic Authority™ Archetype Quiz as a professional-development resource members can complete individually.
Designed for the rooms where leadership matters
The Authentic AuthorityTM experience is built for the programming contexts where leadership development has the highest stakes and the most discerning audiences.
Conferences and Annual Meetings
Keynotes and breakout sessions for professional associations and industry gatherings
Member-Development Programming
Substantive content for communities that expect more than a motivational talk
Leadership Retreats
Immersive experiences for senior leaders and high-potential cohorts
Executive and Women's Networks
Programming for executive networks, boardrooms, credit unions, and peer leadership communities
Corporate Communities and ERGs
Activation experiences for internal networks and employee resource groups
Team and Organizational Activations
Facilitated sessions that build shared language across a leadership team
Meet Kristi Straw, MBA
Kristi Straw, MBA, is an executive strategist, former C-suite banking leader, bestselling author of UNICORN Leader™, and founder of Lighthouse Leadership Consultants.
As the creator of Authentic Authority™, Kristi helps leaders and organizations close trust gaps, strengthen strategic authority, and move decisions forward under pressure. Her work combines leadership psychology, strategic communication, commercial judgment, and live-room facilitation people can use immediately.
A shared language changes the quality of the room.
Members arrive with individual results. Kristi helps them see how five leaders can create trust for five different reasons, where those patterns can collide, and what different people need before they believe a recommendation or support a decision.
More precise conversations about trust
Real application to current leadership situations
Language members can continue using after the experience
Trusted by 3,500+ leaders across industries.
The Authentic Authority™ Archetype Quiz gives leaders a precise, immediately applicable understanding of how they naturally build trust and where that trust can be strengthened.
The assessment is designed to be taken individually and experienced collectively, making it equally powerful as a standalone resource and as the foundation for a live facilitated session.
Give your members language they can use the next time trust determines what moves.
Let's discuss how the Authentic Authority™ Archetype Quiz and live member experience could support your upcoming programming.
Trusted by 3,500+ leaders across industries.