This is the Leadership Field Index — a research collaboration exploring whether coherence, trust, and structural alignment can be measured consistently over time, revealing how leadership fields evolve in living systems.
The Leadership Field Index is the long-view counterpart to the Resonance Scan. While the Scan reveals how coherence behaves in the present moment, the Index tracks how that coherence changes — across quarters, leadership shifts, restructures, or periods of pressure.
Its purpose is to understand whether the qualities leaders feel intuitively — coherence, resonance, trust, stability, structural clarity — can be measured and compared over time. Where traditional metrics focus on performance or sentiment, the Leadership Field Index asks: how does the leadership field itself evolve?
What the Index measures
- Coherence stability — how consistently the organisation speaks and acts from a shared Pattern.
- Energy distribution — whether energy becomes more concentrated, distributed, or fragmented.
- Trust flow over time — how trust behaves during pressure or change.
- Signal integrity — how clearly messages travel and where distortion becomes habitual.
- Structural clarity — whether roles and agreements become clearer or blur under load.
- Alignment drift — early indicators of divergence between teams or layers.
These variables form a coherence trajectory — a view of how the We strengthens or weakens over time.
How the Index works
The Index uses repeated cycles of data capture, allowing researchers to compare one field state with the next. It draws on language pattern changes, network geometry evolution, coherence signals, and alignment and load indicators.
AI processes language and network data, identifying shifts in pattern density, tone distribution, node centrality, and relational load. Interpretation remains human. The Index does not diagnose people; it identifies systemic trends.
By running the Index over time, leaders can see how coherence rises or thins, how trust stabilises or drifts, how architecture responds to change, and whether the system is becoming more or less capable of carrying complexity.
Over time, the Leadership Field Index may evolve into a digital tool that leaders can use to track coherence and alignment over repeated cycles. AI would support the pattern analysis — processing language shifts, relational geometry, and load dynamics — while interpretation would remain human. The aim is not automation, but a clearer view of how the leadership field changes across time.
Why this matters
Most organisations measure outcomes. Very few measure the conditions that make those outcomes possible. The Leadership Field Index focuses on the structural and relational dynamics that determine whether a system can act coherently, trust itself, and sustain energy over time.
It represents the next stage of the Architecture of We research programme — turning what was once intuitive into something observable, trackable, and structurally meaningful. This is not prediction. It is seeing the field as it changes — and understanding the architecture that future leadership will require.