GAP Leadership Assessment Report

Kari Hemsley

Generated: September 05, 2025

Introduction

Kari Hemsley, this comprehensive leadership assessment reveals your distinctive profile as a GAP Community Sponsor. You emerge as Strong Owner Partnering Experimenter with Driven effort capacity. Your unique combination of strong owner ownership, partnering collaboration style, and experimenter focus pattern creates a distinctive leadership signature.

Your profile emerges from a careful analysis of your locus of control orientation—how you view the relationship between your actions and outcomes—alongside your grit characteristics, which reflect your capacity for sustained effort toward long-term goals. Together, these dimensions create a unique leadership signature that influences how you approach challenges, make decisions, and inspire others in the GAP community.

Your Leadership Profile at a Glance

Key Psychological Dimensions

Dimension	Your Score	GAP Leaders	General Population	What This Means
Personal Responsibility	8.0	8.29	7.2	Good: 11% higher than general population, 3% lower than GAP leaders
Powerful Others	5.33	4.55	5.8	Strength: 8% lower than general population (shows self-reliance)
Fate/Circumstance	4.0	4.21	6.4	Strength: 38% lower than general population (shows self-reliance)
Perseverance of Effort	8.0	7.94	7.4	Excellent: 1% higher than GAP leaders, 8% higher than general population
Consistency of Interest	5.67	6.23	5.8	Adapter style: Similar to general population (balanced focus)
Net Ownership	7.0	7.04	5.4	Drives Strong Owner classification: 30% higher than general population

Scale Definitions: Personal Responsibility (PR) = ownership of outcomes | Powerful Others (PO) = belief that outcomes are controlled by other people/authorities | Fate/Circumstance (FC) = attribution of outcomes to external factors like luck or circumstances | Perseverance of Effort (PE) = persistence through challenges | Consistency of Interest (CI) = long-term focus

Your Unique Strengths: Strong Owner Partnering Experimenter

You take strong personal ownership (8.0 PR score) - when you commit to something, you follow through even when it's difficult
You're naturally energetic and persistent (8.0 PE score) - you keep pushing forward where others might give up
You balance self-reliance with openness to others (5.3 PO score) - you can both lead independently and work collaboratively

Development Opportunities

Key Development Areas

Your experimenter style means you sometimes chase new ideas before completing what you started (5.7 CI score)
You can get so focused on driving results that you miss opportunities to develop others' leadership
Your strong ownership sometimes makes it hard to truly delegate - you tend to take back control when things get tough

Recommended Next Steps

Before starting any new initiatives, schedule check-ins with your key partners to review current priorities and progress
Identify specific responsibilities you can fully hand off to emerging leaders, then resist the urge to jump back in
Create regular reflection time to evaluate whether your many activities align with your core community impact goals

Spiritual Foundation: God calls us to both faithful stewardship and collaborative community - your profile reflects this divine balance

🌟 Your Calling

Your combination of ownership and partnership mirrors Christ's leadership - fully responsible yet deeply collaborative. You're equipped to build kingdom work that lasts by developing other leaders while maintaining clear direction.

🎯 Growth Challenges

Learning to rest in God's sovereignty while maintaining your strong drive
Balancing your desire to experiment with the need for stable community transformation
Trusting God's timing when your natural pace wants faster results

✨ Spiritual Insight

Your experimenter-partner pattern reflects God's creative and relational nature. He invites us to innovate while remaining grounded in community.

🙏 Personal Growth Prayer

"Lord, help me steward my drive and creativity while growing in patience and wisdom. Guide me to build lasting kingdom impact by developing others, not just driving results. Give me discernment to know when to push forward and when to wait on Your timing. Amen."

Leadership Development Framework

Strengths

Natural ability to mobilize others while maintaining clear ownership
High perseverance - you push through obstacles that stop others
Comfort with experimentation and trying new approaches

Growth Areas

Tendency to take on too many initiatives simultaneously
Difficulty staying focused on longer-term priorities when new opportunities arise
Can overwhelm partners with your pace and drive

Opportunities

Channel your experimental nature into testing new ways to develop other leaders
Use your partnership orientation to build lasting coalitions for change
Leverage your drive to tackle complex community challenges others avoid

Watch For

Risk of burnout from taking too much personal responsibility
May frustrate partners by changing direction too frequently
Could miss systemic impact by focusing on too many separate projects

Conclusion

Your profile as Strong Owner Partnering Experimenter — Driven creates a distinctive leadership signature that GAP community members will come to recognize and depend upon. Your strong owner foundation combined with driven effort capacity positions you for meaningful impact.

The development opportunities identified in this report are not weaknesses to overcome but rather areas where your leadership can become even more powerful. Your journey toward greater leadership effectiveness mirrors the transformation journey you're supporting in others—it requires sustained effort, strategic relationships, and the courage to take ownership of outcomes.

As you walk in the footsteps of biblical leaders who faced similar challenges, remember that your specific combination of traits creates a leadership approach that is uniquely yours. Continue growing in the areas identified while leveraging your natural strengths, and you will create an increasingly powerful impact in the GAP community, guided by timeless wisdom and divine purpose.