What Your Leadership Style Says About Your Life Story (And How Human Design Reveals the Truth)
- Lindsey Hilliard
- Sep 5
- 3 min read
You weren’t born a people-pleaser. Or a perfectionist. Or a "boss bitch."
Those identities were shaped by your story. By the expectations you absorbed. By the leadership models you inherited.
But underneath all of that? There’s a truer version of you.
And Human Design can help you remember her.
How We Become the Leaders We're Not
Before we can reclaim our truth, we have to acknowledge what shaped us.
Most women I work with are burnt out not because they’re weak—but because they’re powerful women who learned to lead in a way that goes against their natural energy.
We become:
The over-functioner
The over-achiever
The "good girl" boss
The "I'll do it myself" manager
Not because that’s who we are. But because that’s who we thought we had to be to succeed, to be safe, to be seen.
This is survival-based leadership. It looks successful on the outside—but inside? We feel disconnected, tired, fake, or like something's missing.
Human Design: The Blueprint Beneath the Story
Your Human Design chart is like an energetic fingerprint. It reveals the truth of how you’re built to move through the world—lead, decide, connect, create, and influence.
It doesn't tell you who to become. It reminds you who you've always been.
And it maps your life like a character in a powerful story:
Type = Your Role / Archetype: The energy you naturally lead with—your main character essence.
Authority = Your Compass: Your inner GPS—how your character makes decisions that stay true to the plot.
Profile = Your Character Traits: The personality and pathway your character takes (hero's journey).
Defined Centres = Your Sacred Gifts: These are consistent parts of your character—strengths, gifts, or challenges they carry.
Open Centres = The Character's Vulnerabilities: Where you're most influenced—learning to stay true to your role even in external chaos.
Gates & Planets = The Soul Curriculum: The themes, chapters, and plot twists of your life. Your cosmic storyline.
When you read your chart this way, it stops being a personality system—and becomes a mirror for the truth you've always felt.
What Your Leadership Style Reveals About Your Conditioning
Every Type, Authority, and Profile carries clues about the leadership masks you’ve worn—and how to come home to your truth.
Manifesting Generators may have learned to suppress their speed and multidimensional gifts in favour of "fitting in" or being linear.
Projectors may have felt pressure to prove their worth by overworking and over-giving instead of trusting their insight and timing.
Generators may have taken on roles that drain them because they’re wired to respond—but were taught to initiate.
Manifestors may have dulled their boldness to avoid triggering others, instead of informing and leading in their full fire.
Reflectors may have lost trust in their wisdom by being in the wrong environments too long.
Your design doesn’t just explain who you are.It shows you who you were before the world told you who to be.
Rewriting the Story
When we integrate our design into our leadership, we begin to:
Make decisions from alignment, not fear
Take up space from truth, not force
Lead from our energy, not our ego
Reclaim the parts of us we buried to survive
This is what makes leadership feel like freedom.
Your story doesn’t need to be erased. But it can be rewritten—from the inside out.
Start With Your Blueprint
Your Human Design chart is the mirror you didn’t know you needed.
Start there. Get curious. Get honest. And let yourself remember who you were before the performance.
If you know your Type and Authority, you can grab your 90 Day Leadership Implementation Plan - your step by step road map for the next three months.
And when you’re ready to take it deeper, the Natural Leader Hub is where we turn this awareness into transformation.
Love,
Lindsey
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