A PROGRAMME DESIGNED BY DR CLARE ALLEN
Based on 30 years CEO experience, Neuroscience, & NLP
It can write the strategy. Build the framework. Stress-test the financials. Draft the board paper before your CFO has finished her coffee.
There’s one thing it cannot do. It cannot hold the room.
The room before the leader walks in.
01 — The Presence Gap
It cannot walk into a crisis and steady the people in it.
It cannot read the silence between two board members. It cannot make a team feel safe enough to bring their full capability into the work.
That last leadership edge — the one that cannot be automated — is presence. And right now, most of your senior leaders are losing it.
02 — The Hidden Cost
75%
of executive careers that derail, derail because of emotional competency — not technical flaws.
40%
more likely to drive structural change successfully — leaders with strong Business EQ.
20%
measurable performance premium in teams led by high EQ, anchored leaders.
Slower decisions. Weaker teams. Faster burnout. Almost none of it shows up on a balance sheet until it has already cost you.
03 — The Diagnostic
Strategic Architect is not a personality you have to be born with. It is an identity you can be built into.
04 — The Foundation
Most leadership development never touches the core. Identity Anchoring® works in reverse. We move the identity first. The behaviours follow on their own, because they are now the natural expression of who you actually are.
“Success without joy is not success.”
05 — The Methodology
The spine of the work. The order matters. Move the identity first and the behaviours that always felt expensive stop being expensive.
Awareness — The Surface
Bring the hidden operating system to the surface. Identity drift, the muted voice, the certainty you outsourced — we name it and trace it back.
Anchor — The Deep Root
Root you back into your actual identity — values, voice, convictions, instinct. Not affirmations. Identity work — slow, deep, irreversible.
Embody — The Alignment
Authentic executive presence in the body and the voice. Boardroom, media, hostile rooms — the room feels the difference inside the first sentence.
Integrate — The System
Align how you lead with what you are anchored to. Delegation, hard conversations, boundaries stop being expensive — they become the natural overflow.
Expand — The Apex
Anchored leaders build anchored teams. Anchored teams build organisations that do not need the leader to hold the whole thing up. Predictable ROI — from identity.
06 — The Science
Every leader I work with completes the EBW Business EQ Diagnostic before we begin — a behavioural index benchmarked against more than 5,000 senior leaders globally. Not a personality test. A measure of how you perform when stress increases.
Identity insight without behavioural data is incomplete. Data without identity anchoring is just a sheet of metrics. Woven together, they create the conditions for lasting, systemic change.
The nine dials
Dr Clare Allen is an accredited EBW practitioner.
07 — Individual Pathways
For ascending leaders
Twelve months. Three phases. Diagnose & Reposition, Sharpen & Apply, Embed & Lead. Pairs Identity Anchoring with EBW. Sixty day love it or leave it.
For established CEOs & C-suite
By application only. Twelve months. For leaders who already have the seat and need the voice, brand and presence to match the seat they have earned.
08 — For Organisations
The corporate version of the work. A diagnostic, a full-day intensive, and an integration phase that turns identity insight into operational ROI.
See the engagement architecture →Diagnostic Pre-Work
Phase 01Every participant completes the EBW Business EQ assessment before they walk into the room — benchmarked against 5,000+ senior leaders.
The Full Day Intensive
Phase 029 to 5. On site at your premises. Eight to sixteen participants. Identity reconstruction, not surface training.
Integration
Phase 03Personalised EBW debriefs and a customised 90 day action plan per participant. Leadership team debrief to close the loop.
About the founder
Creator of The Inner Executive System.
Dr Clare Allen is an accomplished Non Executive Director and multi award winning CEO with over 25 years’ executive leadership experience across government, not for profit, disability, community services, and utilities sectors. She brings to the boardroom a rare combination of deep strategic governance, robust financial oversight, and hands on operational expertise, including oversight of $3B in infrastructure, managing multi billion dollar asset portfolios and complex, regulated organisations.
A proven business turnaround leader, Dr Allen has reversed organisational deficits, tripled revenues, led mergers, and delivered award winning outcomes under significant challenge, including managing $90M+ in flood damage recovery and overseeing a $100M infrastructure duplication project. Her NDIS and community housing expertise, combined with a Diploma from the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD), positions her as a leadership advisor to boards seeking strategic depth, commercial acumen, and authentic governance leadership.
Education & accreditations
Selected awards & recognition
09 — What leaders say
“I stopped overthinking and started taking real action — with a clear plan, stronger boundaries, and renewed confidence in myself and my business.”
Sharnah Thompson
Master State
“This course was the anchor I needed. I now make decisions from the Master State, and friends have commented on how calmly I handle situations that once sent me into a spin.”
Elke Shroeder
Identity Anchoring
“My outlook on myself changed, my self-trust deepened, and I moved from living on autopilot to making conscious, informed decisions. This work helped me remember that I matter.”
Shivani Seth
Identity Anchoring Programme
“Clare creates a space that is both safe and challenging. I gained clarity around my values and strengths, which translated into greater confidence, stronger boundaries and a clearer sense of direction.”
Vina Varsani
Executive Coaching
“The Identity Anchoring process helped me connect deeply with my values and strengthened my leadership skills. I now lead with clarity, confidence and purpose.”
Annette Young
Inner Executive Programme
The new ceiling
That capacity is the new ceiling — and it is built one place. From identity.