The WE-I Profile exposes the stress patterns quietly undermining your leaders. The Curious Conversation Framework turns that insight into skills they can use immediately — in the conversations that actually count.
A performance issue lingers for weeks because no one will say the hard thing out loud.
Team friction escalates to HR before anyone has tried to address it directly.
No one will challenge the most powerful person in the room — so nothing moves.
Talented people disengage quietly — long before it shows up in your retention data.
The leaders on your team aren’t broken. They’re operating without a map of their own stress response — and without the specific conversation skills to navigate the moments that matter most.
That’s exactly what this work addresses.
The WE-I Profile makes the invisible visible: how each person on your team responds internally when pressure hits, where their blind spots live, and what patterns are quietly shaping every high-stakes interaction. The Curious Conversation Framework then gives them the precise skills to respond differently — not someday, but in the next difficult conversation they face.
Together, they turn your most capable leaders into your most reliably effective ones. Even when it’s hard. Especially when it’s hard.
A Complete System — From Insight To Impact
Most leadership development stops at awareness. You learn something interesting about yourself, then walk back into the same environment and repeat the same patterns under pressure.
This is different. Every stage builds on the last. By the end, your leaders don’t just understand their stress response, they know exactly what to do with it.
See exactly how stress is shaping each leader on your team. The WE-I Profile captures the specific nonconscious patterns driving behaviour when pressure hits — not personality types or style labels. A precise map of where each person struggles and why.
WHAT YOU RECEIVEIndividual WE-I reports for every participant + a team pattern report showing collective strengths and vulnerabilities under pressure.
Data without context is just noise. Each leader receives a guided debrief that connects their WE-I results to real moments they recognise — making blind spots visible without feeling like an attack. The team debrief creates a shared language for what’s actually happening under pressure.
WHAT YOU RECEIVEIndividual debrief sessions for each participant + one team debrief session that brings the collective picture into focus.
Built directly from your team’s WE-I results — not a generic workshop. Your leaders learn the specific conversation skills that address the exact patterns the assessment revealed. Curiosity as a practisable skill. Real techniques for the conversations that used to derail them.
WHAT YOU RECEIVEA tailored skill session built from your team’s WE-I data + a practical conversation playbook your leaders can return to.
Whether you’re an individual leader curious about your own stress response, or an organization ready to shift how your whole team performs under pressure — there’s a clear next step.
Before I became an executive coach I was a competitive swimmer training at the highest level. Then I spent a decade in high-stakes entertainment industry where pressure was the baseline and performance was non-negotiable.
What both worlds taught me is this: the leaders who perform best under pressure aren’t the ones who know the most. They’re the ones who understand themselves most clearly.
That insight became the foundation of everything I do.
I’m the only practitioner who combines the WE-I Profile — the only EQ assessment that captures internal stress response — with a proprietary Curious Conversation Framework built from fifteen years of working with leaders across healthcare, government, law, financial services, technology, non-profits, education, and entertainment.
The assessment reveals the pattern. The framework changes it. No one else has built this combination.
Warm. Direct. Honest. I create space for leaders to see themselves clearly — without shame, without judgment, and without the defensiveness that usually shuts these conversations down before they start.
My clients describe our sessions as the most honest conversations they’ve had about their own leadership — and the most immediately useful.
Based in Kelowna BC. Working virtually with leaders and organizations across Canada.
TEDx Speaker · ICF Certified · Certified WE-I Individual & Teams Practitioner · Executive Coach Royal Roads · CPHR Industry Partner · National Psychological Health and Safety Professional Certificate from CMHA · BA Dalhousie University · Co-Author Best Selling Book The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation, and Understanding.
The discovery call is free. Thirty minutes. No pitch, no pressure. Just a conversation about what’s happening for you or your team and whether this is the right fit.
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Kirsten Siggins · Institute of Curiosity · Kelowna BC · kirsten@instituteofcuriosity.com
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