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Lumina Executive Consulting
Leadership shapes business performance.
We help organisations understand, assess and strengthen it.

We work with private equity & principal investors, scale-ups and corporates.
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10+ Years in International Financial Services
Deutsche Bank | Fitch Ratings | Fitch Solutions
Leadership Effectiveness Assessment
Helping organisations understand leadership team's effectiveness, potential, risk and business impact.

Combining Hogan Assessments, structured behavioural interviews and business insight to provide a practical view of how leaders and their teams influence decisions, teams and organisational performance.
  • Psychometrics
    Hogan Assessments HPI, HDS & MVPI
    The Archetypical Leader Matrix
  • Structured Interview
    Exploring leadership through real business situations
  • Business Insight
    Connecting behaviour to organisational performance
Why Leadership Matters

Leadership influences far more than individual performance.
It shapes decisions, execution, team effectiveness and organisational growth.

Common challenges:
  • Slow decision-making
  • Founder dependency
  • Lack of ownership and accountability
  • Ineffective delegation
  • Over-reliance on key people
  • Low engagement and initiative
  • Team conflict and silo behaviour
  • Promotion and succession challenges
  • Behaviours that become less effective under pressure
The impact is often invisible at first.

Left undressed, these challenges can lead to:
• Slower execution
• Inconsistent decision-making
• Higher employee turnover
• Reduced scalability
• Weaker business performance
Whether you are scaling a business, investing in a management team or preparing future leaders, understanding leadership effectiveness leads to better business decisions.
Typical Situations We Help With
Investment Due Diligence
Understanding the strengths, potential and risks of founders and management teams before critical business decisions
Scaling Organisations
When growth begins to outpace leadership capability, creating bottlenecks and reducing organizational effectiveness
Team Alignment
When leadership teams need stronger alignment around priorities, decision-making and execution
Performance Challenges
When performance, execution or accountability are not fully aligned with organisational goals
Promotion & Readiness Decisions
Understanding whether leadership capability matches the demands of the next role
Reorganization & Transformation
Helping leaders navigate structural change, new responsibilities and increasing complexity
Founder Dependency
When founders are looking to build greater leadership capacity and reduce reliance on key individuals
Succession Planning
Providing greater confidence in decisions about future leadership and organizational continuity
What the Assessment Covers
A comprehensive view of how management teams create impact and drive results.
  • Effectiveness
    How leaders create impact through decisions, teams and execution
    1
  • Strengths
    The capabilities that support performance and success
    2
  • Risks
    Potential blind spots and patterns that may emerge under pressure
    3
  • Role Fit & Readiness
    Alignment between capabilities and current or future role demands
    6
  • Potential
    Capacity for future growth, complexity and new responsibility
    4
  • Business Impact
    How behaviours influence team and organisational performance
    5
What Is Included
A structured assessment combining psychometrics, interviews and business insight.
01 - The Outer Core: Hogan Assessment Suite
Understanding personality, leadership strengths, behavioural patterns and motivations

The Inner Core: The Archetypical Leader Matrix
Breakdown of your financial and scaling capacity, your core zones of personal power, and the subconscious blind spots






02 - Leadership Interview (90-120min)
Exploring how behaviours influence decisions, teams and business outcomes
03 - Leadership Assessment Report
A structured executive report covering:
• Leadership Effectiveness
• Key Strengths
• Risks & Blind Spots
• Potential
• Role Fit & Readiness
• Organisational Impact
• Development Priorities
04 - Feedback Session (90min)
Translating assessment insights into practical actions and development priorities
05 - Executive Coaching Sessions
(6-8 weeks)
Ongoing support to strengthen leadership effectiveness and address key development priorities identified during the assessment
Explore the Assessment
My background in credit risk and financial analysis brings a different lens to leadership assessment.
For years, I evaluated organisations not only on their strengths and potential, but also on the risks that could affect future performance. Today I apply the same mindset to leadership.
Business & Organizational Impact
Organizations gain greater clarity around leadership strengths, risks and development priorities, enabling more informed leadership & investment decisions
  • Greater Effectiveness
    Helping leaders perform at their best by building on their strengths
    1
  • Better Leadership Decisions
    More confident decisions about leadership selection, development and succession
    2
  • Reduced Leadership Risk
    Earlier identification of leadership risks before they affect performance
    3
  • Stronger Ownership & Accountability
    Clearer ownership, better delegation and stronger accountability
    6
  • Better Team Alignment
    Improved collaboration, clearer priorities and better execution across teams
    4
  • Stronger Leadership Pipeline
    Building confidence in future leaders and long-term succession planning
    5
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Why Lumina
About Ekaterina
Ekaterina Usova
Founder | Leadership & Organisational Advisor, ICF & EMCC accredited
Leadership shapes far more than individual performance. It shapes decisions, execution, team effectiveness and ultimately business performance.

I help organisations make better decisions about leaders by assessing leadership effectiveness, potential, leadership risks, organisational impact and readiness for greater responsibility.

Prior to founding Lumina Executive, I spent more than a decade in international financial services with Deutsche Bank, Fitch Ratings and Fitch Solutions, working in complex, high-performance environments where leadership decisions had direct business consequences.

Today, I combine business experience, leadership assessment and organisational insight to help founders, executives, investors and leadership teams build stronger leadership capability and improve organisational performance.

Helping organisations build stronger leaders and leadership teams.

Internationally | English & Russian
Professional Credentials
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Continue Your Leadership Development
Assessment creates insight. Sustainable change happens when insight is translated into action.
Executive Coaching Sessions
Follow-on support helping leaders translate assessment insights into meaningful leadership improvement and greater organisational impact.

Typical focus areas:
  • decision-making
  • delegation & accountability
  • stakeholder management
  • team effectiveness
  • leadership transitions
  • managing complexity & pressure
Format: 6–8 weeks

Tailored to individual leadership priorities and business context.
Ready to Build Stronger Leadership?
Helping organisations build stronger leaders, stronger leadership teams and better business outcomes.

Whether you're preparing future leaders, strengthening your leadership team or navigating growth, we'd be delighted to learn more about your organisation and explore how we can help.

Every engagement begins with a confidential discovery conversation.
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Registered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Professional services in leadership effectiveness assessment, leadership development, and organisational consulting.
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