Derailers
A questionnaire-style leadership assessment that surfaces the core beliefs most likely to undermine your effectiveness as a leader.
🔍 Uncover the Patterns Holding You Back
Derailers is a questionnaire-style assessment that identifies the core beliefs most likely to undermine your effectiveness as a leader. It surfaces the emotional triggers and unconscious patterns that quietly cost you credibility and traction with your people.
Every leader has blind spots. Patterns of thinking and reacting that made sense at some point but now get in the way, with their team, in high-pressure situations, or when real credibility is on the line. Derailers makes those patterns visible.
How it works
Derailers uses a structured questionnaire format. You work through a series of carefully designed questions, and the assessment analyses your responses against the NeuroPower™ Framework to identify which core beliefs are most active in your leadership.
The result is a prioritised set of your most likely derailers, with clear explanations of how each one tends to show up in practice.
What you get
- A ranked set of your most likely derailer patterns
- Explanations of how each derailer tends to manifest in leadership behaviour
- Context for why these patterns develop and what drives them
- A starting point for focused development work with your coach or the Neuro+ AI Coach
Derailers vs. Core Belief Profiler
Both Derailers and the Core Belief Profiler work with core beliefs, but they take different approaches and produce different outputs.
| Derailers | Core Belief Profiler | |
|---|---|---|
| Method | Structured questionnaire | Guided conversational process |
| Output | A ranked set of likely derailers | One primary core belief profile |
| Depth | Breadth across multiple patterns | Deep focus on a single root belief |
| Best for | Getting an overview of your derailer landscape | Understanding your primary core driver in depth |
Many leaders use both. Derailers gives you the full picture of your patterns; the Core Belief Profiler goes deeper on the root belief that sits underneath them.
When to use Derailers
- At the start of a leadership development programme to establish a baseline
- Before a significant role change or increased leadership responsibility
- When you are receiving consistent feedback about a pattern you are not fully seeing yourself
- As a team exercise to build mutual understanding of each person's patterns