Do you know how others actually experience your communication?

Most leaders think they do. Most leaders are slightly wrong.

Every leader has a natural communication style. A way they show up in meetings, conversations, and moments of pressure. A default... the way they communicate when they're not thinking about it.

That default style is both your greatest communication strength and your most significant blind spot.

Because here's what most leaders are never told. The way you naturally communicate feels completely normal to you. But to someone with a different natural style... you might be the one who's hard to read. Hard to follow. Or hard to connect with.

That's not a character flaw. It's a communication gap. And once you understand it... once you can really see your own style and the styles of the people around you... everything about how you lead changes.

Your Influential Voice™ starts here.

What you'll discover in less than 5 minutes

  • Your primary communication style from the Your Influential Voice™ framework... The Captain, The Analyst, The Friend, or The Entertainer

  • How others are actually experiencing your communication right now... not how you think you're landing, how you're actually landing

  • Your natural communication strengths and the blind spot that may be working against you without you knowing it

  • A clear and personalised starting point for your leadership communication journey

  • And if you're a blend of two styles... what that combination means for how you lead

9 questions. Less than 5 minutes. Completely yours.

Built from real leadership conversations

Your Influential Voice™ wasn't developed in a classroom or a research lab. It was built from more than 4,000 real coaching sessions with real leaders at every level... across 17 years of working with emerging leaders, established leaders, and executives on the path to the C-suite.

Coach Brian McCarthy has worked with more than 900 leaders through BetterUp, CoachHub, and Zilzie Executive Coaching. As a certified Leadership Communications Specialist, he has seen every communication style, every blind spot, and every Ah-Ha moment that comes when a leader finally understands how they're being experienced by the people around them.

That moment is what this quiz is designed to create for you.

Discover your natural communication style as a leader.

Your Influential Voice™ Quiz

Answer each question honestly. There are no right or wrong answers... just your answers. If you're unsure, choose the option that feels closest to how you naturally show up right now... not how you think you should.

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Quietly Being Seen™ | Coach Brian McCarthy | Zilzie Executive Coaching

Your results are completely private. This quiz is designed to give you genuine insight into your communication style... not to sell you something.

If you'd like to explore what your results mean for your specific leadership situation, your Applied Leadership Session with Coach Brian is available at the link in your results page.