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Epitome: Leadership Archetypes for Women - A Guide
Four archetypes already live in every woman who the Sovereign, the Empress, the Seductress and the Consort. Not four separate selves to move between, but one woman with four dimensions of power.
Every copy includes access to the Epitome Archetype Assessment and a personalised report on your own four.
Epitome introduces you to each of who you are at your best and at your most challenged, what your relationship to power actually looks like, and practical ways to bring each one forward when you need her.
This is not a personality test that sorts you into a box. All four live in you. What shifts is which one you are leading from right now, and which ones are waiting.
Four archetype portraits - each one's gifts, her relationship to power, and her shadow under pressure.The Epitome Archetype Assessment and your personalised report.Understanding your results - your leading, supporting and least active archetypes, and how they shift across a career.Activation practices for bringing forward an archetype you rarely draw on.A living practice across four leadership identity, power, storytelling and resilience.The framework is built on a three-year research project with emerging and senior women leaders in Australia and the United States, published in Gender, Work & Organization (2025), and on fifteen years of coaching conversations with women in leadership.
Written for the woman who is capable, widely respected, and still carrying something unnamed.
Every copy includes access to the Epitome Archetype Assessment and a personalised report on your own four.
Epitome introduces you to each of who you are at your best and at your most challenged, what your relationship to power actually looks like, and practical ways to bring each one forward when you need her.
This is not a personality test that sorts you into a box. All four live in you. What shifts is which one you are leading from right now, and which ones are waiting.
Four archetype portraits - each one's gifts, her relationship to power, and her shadow under pressure.The Epitome Archetype Assessment and your personalised report.Understanding your results - your leading, supporting and least active archetypes, and how they shift across a career.Activation practices for bringing forward an archetype you rarely draw on.A living practice across four leadership identity, power, storytelling and resilience.The framework is built on a three-year research project with emerging and senior women leaders in Australia and the United States, published in Gender, Work & Organization (2025), and on fifteen years of coaching conversations with women in leadership.
Written for the woman who is capable, widely respected, and still carrying something unnamed.
124 pages, Paperback
Published September 22, 2026
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October 9, 2026
It is rare to find a leadership book that rests on rigorous research and still reads with such ease. Epitome manages both. The archetype framework is clearly the product of deep work, yet it never hides behind theory or jargon. Each archetype is drawn with enough clarity that you recognise it immediately, in yourself and in the people you lead, and the book then carries that recognition through to practical choices about how you show up.Although it is written with women leaders in mind, its insights apply to anyone who holds responsibility for others. The archetypes offer a shared language for conversations that are usually hard to have, about identity, strength, and what we carry into our roles without naming it. That alone makes it valuable for leadership teams, not just individuals.The inclusion of the archetype assessment is a thoughtful touch that turns reading into reflection. This is a book to read once for the ideas and return to for the guidance. Highly recommended for any leader who wants substance without heaviness.
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