PRISM® profiles · Global TeamLEAD

Learn how to lead anyone, anywhere.

Global TeamLEAD addresses one of the most pressing challenges facing organisations today: improving team performance. Through an evidence-based team leadership assessment, development curriculum, and certification programme, leaders and team members gain the insights, tools, and practical strategies needed to build, contribute to, and sustain high-performing teams in any context.

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Your PRISM® Leadership Profile

The degree to which people defer to authority, challenge it openly, or expect decisions to come from different levels of a hierarchy.

The extent to which people move ahead with limited information or hold back until risks are carefully identified and addressed.

Whether people work best autonomously or as part of a group when making decisions and completing a project.

How quickly people process information, make decisions, and deliberate before moving forward.

Whether people communicate in a straightforward, explicit manner or use more implicit, nuanced approaches to make a point.

You lead with support and resources. Coaches focus on bringing out the best in others through encouragement and empowerment. You are often a steady, trusted presence, prioritizing individual growth while ensuring the team has what it needs.

A team talking together around a table — **80%**of workplace conflict comes from differences in values that have nothing to do with nationality.Meta-analysis of 558 studies in 32 countries

Why it matters

The skills that stay human.

As AI changes the way work is done, building trust, communicating clearly, working through disagreement and deciding well together remain distinctly human. PRISM gives your team the knowledge and skills to reduce friction and build a high-performing way of working together.

“97 per cent of employees say poor teamwork negatively affects the quality of their work, and 90 per cent say their team directly impacts their job satisfaction and performance.”
Salesforce Research

How it works

From profile to certification.

An extensive curriculum, written by instructional designers and built to be accessible. Each module comes with background reading, slide decks and a participant workbook for your team to work through together, guided by a certified facilitator.

02Four modulesWorked through as a team

What a team sees

Friction, made visible.

A facilitator brings everyone's results together so the team can see itself, in the room and on a live cohort website. A real cohort of 27 leaders, de-identified.

Where the team sits

27 leaders

Each circle is one person; the line is the team average. This team leans flat on Power but is spread widely on Risk and Identity, which is where the conversation starts.

Where it is most divided

Identity · 75 pts

Who holds which archetype

Primary · secondary

The research behind PRISM

Built with 3,700+ leaders in 27 countries.

PRISM was created by Professor David Livermore and his team at Boston University, through interviews, focus groups, scenario testing and surveys between 2022 and 2025.

Founder and research lead

David Livermore, PhD

Ahmass Fakahany Visiting Professor in Global Leadership at Boston University's Questrom School of Business, and a founder of the Cultural Intelligence Center.

3,700+Leaders

27Countries

4 yearsFieldwork

The research briefLeading Differently: The Research Behind PRISMDavid Livermore, PhD · Research brief, February 2026 · PDF

Behaviour, not personality

It asks what people actually do at work, not what they say they value.

Tested and reliable

The five dimensions held up across repeated pilots, regions and sectors.

Tim BarrettCurriculum lead

For facilitators and consultants

Become a Master Facilitator.

Global TeamLEAD is delivered through a network of Master Facilitators, either in-house leaders or external consultants. Master Certification gives you full rights to do all three.

PRISMMaster Facilitator