Lead with Deeper Self-Knowledge & Stronger Habits.
The CMI for school leaders helps you understand how your temperament shapes the way you lead people, make decisions, handle pressure, and build culture.
For Heads of School, Principals, Headmasters, and Superintendents
School leadership places unusual demands on a person. Leaders must set direction, make difficult decisions, address problems directly, communicate clearly, build healthy teams, and remain steady under pressure. They carry responsibility not only for outcomes, but for the tone and health of the institution itself.
The CMI helps leaders understand how their natural temperament affects that work. It reveals the instincts they bring into leadership: how they act in conflict, where they tend to move too quickly or too slowly, how they relate to their teams, and which pressures are most likely to expose their weaknesses.
What makes the CMI especially valuable for Christian school leaders is that it does not flatter or oversimplify. It does not offer a thin leadership profile and leave the leader alone with it. It gives a clear picture of temperament but then connects that picture to the real responsibilities of leadership and the practical work of growth.
Some leaders need help becoming more direct. Others need help becoming more patient. Some need stronger discipline and follow-through. Others need greater humility, better listening, or a more measured response under stress. The CMI helps name those needs honestly and then offers concrete guidance for addressing them.
This is why the CMI is more than a personality tool. It is a tool for formation. It helps leaders grow in the virtues and habits that make healthy schools possible. For leaders who want to serve their school with greater clarity, steadiness, and faithfulness, it offers a wise place to begin.