Leadership, rewired
The implicit bottleneck behind stalled growth.
Legacy Rewired turns complex friction between leaders into language that can be recognized and acted upon. One assessment, one map and one method, from a single person to a whole company.
Key metric
Only 1 in 5
Employees worldwide
are engaged at work.
Source: Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2026 (2025 data).
Identity Regulation Legacy
Complexity needs language to be recognized and acted upon.
Credible conversation creates shared context.
The threshold
Cross the threshold from insight into forward action.
01 Recognition
The assessment names how each leader is wired and what happens to them under pressure: the habits that carry a company, and the ones that quietly cost it.
02 The action field
Coaching, the Guide and culture work put the insight into practice, so the change shows up in the business and not only in a report.
The 5R Rewiring Loop
Regulate
Reflect
Reframe
Repeat
Relate
Our method for moving from Override, the state you are in under pressure, back to Neutral, the place you can choose from. Get the free field guide.
How we are different
It looks to see where you have, or have not, done the work, and names what that is costing you.
124
questions in the Leadership Profile
10
domains of how a leader works
5
base settings: curiosity, discipline, outward energy, warmth and stress sensitivity
1
connected map of the person, the family and the company
The person, their family and their company on one map, with a coach that remembers it.
Override and Neutral, named Override Patterns and the 5R Rewiring Loop. Our own method and our own words.
A life-story layer that traces where a leader’s wiring came from, so what gets handed on is chosen.
A certified networkIn build
Culture, process and capacity work, delivered by certified Legacy Rewired coaches.
Grounded in validated constructs: the Big Five (IPIP) and licensed OpenEQ. An independent study with a university and psychologist review is planned, and local norms will be built in each market we serve.
The Guide
It is a practice, not a state.
Learn the signals your body gives you before you react.
The Guide is an AI coach that knows your map and stays with you between sessions, alongside human coaching. Talk to it out loud and it talks back. Text it and it texts back.
Instead of AI replacing humanity, we use AI to return people to it.
What we do with a leadership team
The Company Wiring MapStart here
One assessment each. One map of how your leaders actually work together. Then a ninety-minute readout with Christopher about what to do with it.
Every leader gets their own private read. The company gets the map. Nobody is scored, ranked or assessed behind their back.
From $20,000 USD for up to twelve leaders.
The cost of running on empty: a conversation about energy management for executives.
Training days on emotional intelligence and hard conversations, a two-day sales training, and leadership offsites.
One to one, monthly or in a seven-week program. Human coaching, with the Guide alongside it between sessions.
Discovery, Culture Foundation and Full Transformation packages. Systems, process and capacity work that changes how the team works, so the change lasts.
The other engagements are priced per engagement. Request a company briefing and we will scope it with you.
Built to grow inside your company
For companies of roughly 20 to 500 people.
The leadership team
One assessment each, one map, and a ninety-minute readout. The people who set the pattern see it first.
Managers and departments
The same map extends to the teams they lead, by division or by seat, so everyone is reading from one page.
Hiring
Assess a candidate against the team before you hire, so the seat you open is the seat you actually need.
The founder story
Built on one man’s own wiring, now helping leaders and the people they love understand theirs.
We build the tools that transfer identity and legacy intentionally, so that what a person hands to the next generation is not burnout and broken patterns, but clarity, purpose, and the knowledge of who they actually are.
Keep learning
A field quasi-experiment in a multinational firm, published online 22 October 2026 in Strategic Management Journal, found that monetary rewards for network prominence did raise it — and that employees who became more prominent left at higher rates than those who did not.
Read the essay →A survey of 115 senior executives in mainland Chinese firms, published online in Management Decision in August 2026, linked CEO narcissism to more conflict and lower team effectiveness. Team trust did not blunt the first link.
Read the essay →Questions
No. A personality quiz generalizes and assumes you have not done the work. Legacy Rewired looks at where you have or have not done the work, and what it is currently costing you.
Leaders and leadership teams in companies of roughly 20 to 500 people. It covers 124 questions across 10 domains, and includes the five-trait read of the base settings your wiring runs on.
One assessment for each leader, one map of how they actually work together, and a ninety-minute readout with Christopher Friesen. From $20,000 USD for up to twelve leaders, and $1,000 USD for each additional person.
After you complete your own profile, you can invite a spouse, business partner, or teammate to connect theirs with their consent. Nobody sees the other person’s report. Your Guide holds both maps at once, so it understands the friction between you, not just your side of it.
Yes. Connected Profiles only share what you consent to share, and no one else ever sees your individual report.
Company briefing
For leadership teams weighing a company engagement. A private sixty-minute conversation with Christopher, by video call. No contract, no commitment. Leading on your own? Start with the assessment.
From there: add more leaders to the assessment, or book a walk-through of the results with Christopher.
Identity Regulation Legacy