The Wilderness Gap
The distance between who you think you are and who the people closest to you actually experience. Most leaders never measure it. That's precisely why it widens.
The premise
There are three of you. The one you believe you are. The one your team experiences. And the one your family lives with. The space between them is your Wilderness Gap.
Three vantage points, one leader
See the drift
The wider the offset between these three, the more energy you're spending holding a self-image the people around you don't recognize.
Why measure it
You can't close a gap
you refuse to see.
High-performing leaders are experts at self-assessment that flatters. The Wilderness Gap is built to bypass that — a structured instrument that surfaces the honest distance between your intent and your impact, grounded in the same research John has published in the field's top journals.
It isn't a personality quiz or a scorecard to win. It's a mirror, sized to the terrain. What you do with what it shows you is where the real work begins — usually in the desert.
- Multi-vantage input — your own read, plus structured perspective from those who work and live with you.
- Research-grounded — built on frameworks published in three FT Top-40 journals.
- Private debrief with John — your results become a conversation, never a report you read alone.
- A starting line — it maps directly onto the work you'll do on a retreat or in coaching.
His credibility as a guide, outdoorsman, and experience designer is impeccable… a stellar group of husbands and fathers who, as it turns out, struggle with many of the same things I do.Jason — Executive Coach
Access is limited on purpose.
The Wilderness Gap is offered to leaders entering a retreat or coaching engagement. Request an invitation and John will be in touch.