Every stage builds on the last. Most leadership development programs stop at Stage 1.
This one doesn’t start until you understand what Stage 1 actually reveals.
Not who you are on a good day. What actually happens inside you when the stakes are real, faster than years of self-reflection could show you.
You stop reacting. You start choosing.
Data without context is noise. This is where your results become a story you recognize.
Once you can name it, you can change it.
We know precisely what's getting in your way. Skills built for the conversations that once derailed you.
Awareness without skill keeps you stuck. This is where you become the leader you know you’re capable of being.
The Proprietary Difference
No other practitioner offers the unique combination of the WE-I Profile and the Curiosity Skills + Curious Conversation Framework.
The WE-I Profile is the only assessment of its kind, uniquely designed to measure your stress response under pressure, rather than your personality in calm conditions.
The Curiosity Skills and Curious Conversation Framework, developed by Kathy Taberner and Kirsten Siggins over fifteen years, provides you with precise, actionable skills to address what the WE-I uncovers.
Together, these tools do more than create awareness, they drive transformation.
Results come faster than with coaching alone, faster than with any assessment you’ve taken, and faster than you thought possible.
This powerful combination propels you across the finish line, helping you become the leader you aspire to be.
Kirsten Siggins has spent fifteen years delivering and refining this system across healthcare, government, law, financial services, and education.
She is the co-author of The Power of Curiosity and co-founder of the Institute of Curiosity — built alongside her mother, Kathy Taberner.
The Power of Curiosity is an Amazon bestseller, translated into Japanese, endorsed by Daymond John.
Kirsten is a TEDx Speaker · Certified Executive Coach · Certified WE-I Practitioner · Certified National Psychological Health and Safety Professional, CMHA
The habits and patterns that take over under pressure are invisible to you.
You can keep pushing through, and you probably will.
But there’s a cost to navigating without a map, and you’ll never fully know what it is.
You can’t measure what you can’t see, and you can’t change it either.
The investment below changes that.
You know you’re capable. But your patterns and blind spots under pressure keep getting in the way. You sense it, but you can’t quite see it clearly enough to change.
That’s what changes here. The System accelerates your path to becoming the leader you know you can be, faster than you thought possible.
You’ve tried programs and retreats. The pattern is familiar: great feedback, real enthusiasm, then it’s all gone within a month.
This is different. It starts with data, not just content, so the skills developed are laser-focused on what’s actually holding them back. Lasting change comes not from inspiration, but from specificity.
You’re building a culture, not just managing performance. For that, your senior team must model communication that creates psychological safety, retains top talent, and drives real results.
The System creates true change at the root, not just the surface. When one leader stops reacting under pressure, every conversation transforms. Multiply that across a senior team, and what shifts isn’t just communication. It determines whether your best people stay, your best ideas come forward, and whether your culture holds strong under pressure.
My system is data-led from the start. The WE-I Profile provides objective measurement of your internal stress response before a single session takes place, so everything that follows is grounded in what’s actually happening, not what you think is happening. You’re not working from someone’s impression of you or the impression you have of yourself. Together we go deeper, faster, with infrastructure for sustainable change.
The WE-I Profile is the only EQ assessment that measures your internal stress response — what happens inside you when the pressure is real and the stakes are high. Tools like DiSC and Myers-Briggs measure personality and communication style in calm, self-reported conditions. The WE-I captures the non-conscious patterns that operate beneath the surface, specifically in high-pressure moments. That’s the data that drives actual behavioural change.
The core work for individuals takes about 2-4hrs in the first month. Most leaders start to see real shifts in the first 2 sessions.
Team engagements are scoped on a discovery call based on team size, goals, and scheduling. The discovery call is the right place to map out a realistic timeline for your specific situation.
The Curiosity Skills & Curious Conversation Framework are the Institute of Curiosity’s proprietary, neuroscience-backed methodology — fifteen years in the making developed by Kirsten Siggins & her mom/ business partner Kathy Taberner {now retired}. It gives leaders a simple, three-step system for staying regulated, asking better questions, and navigating high-stakes conversations, even under stress. Taught around the exact conversations that have always been hardest for you.
Individual sessions and WE-I profiles are available virtually. Team workshops are in-person only — the work is too important and too interactive to lose people to a screen.
Yes. Thirty minutes. The call is a genuine conversation about what’s happening for you or your team and whether this work is the right fit, in either direction. Most people leave with a clear next step, whether that’s working together or not. Kirsten will tell you honestly if this isn’t the right solution for your situation.
This work is best for leaders who know something happens to them under pressure but can’t yet name what it is. It’s for leaders in transition {a promotion, more responsibility, higher stakes} who keep hitting the same wall in difficult conversations, no matter how much they’ve already tried to fix it. Most of all, it’s for leaders ready to look at themselves first, not just everyone around them.
Leadership Development for High-Pressure Moments.
Using curiosity, emotional intelligence, and Curious Conversations to help leaders see what they can’t see.
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