Discover the Leadership Blind$pots Holding Your Business Back
Every growing business reaches a point where what's worked in the past no longer delivers the same results.
Our evidence-based assessments help uncover the leadership patterns, mindset gaps, and hidden obstacles that may be limiting your growth so you can move forward with greater clarity and confidence.
Secure. Confidential. Insightful.
See What Your Leadership May Be Missing
Discover the Leadership Blind Spots Holding Your Business Back
Every growing business reaches a point where what's worked in the past no longer delivers the same results.
Our evidence-based assessments help uncover the leadership patterns, mindset gaps, and hidden obstacles that may be limiting your growth so you can move forward with greater clarity and confidence.
Secure. Confidential. Insightful.
2
Diagnostic instruments
90
Minutes with Hacia
90
Day action plan
2
Diagnostic instruments
90
Minutes with Hacia
90
Day action plan
Strategy does not fail on paper. It fails in execution.
Culture is language without words. And most leaders are fluent in one they never meant to create. The behavior your culture rewards without realizing. The systems that buckle the moment they are tested. The gap between how you experience your business and how your team actually does.
That gap is not soft. It is financial. When people's psychological needs are met, they thrive, and thriving people build thriving businesses. When those needs are quietly starved, the cost shows up everywhere except the line that would explain it: profit that does not appear, people who leave, decisions that stall, momentum that gets more expensive to hold together every quarter.
The leaders who move the balance sheet are the ones who learn to read that gap before it reads them. This is your billion dollar Blind$pot. Every business has one. Most never measure it. Because performance is a system, not a talent.
Strategy does not fail on paper. It fails in execution.
Culture is language without words. And most leaders are fluent in one they never meant to create. The behaviour your culture rewards without realising. The systems that buckle the moment they are tested. The gap between how you experience your business and how your team actually does.
That gap is not soft. It is financial. When people's psychological needs are met, they thrive, and thriving people build thriving businesses. When those needs are quietly starved, the cost shows up everywhere except the line that would explain it: profit that does not appear, people who leave, decisions that stall, momentum that gets more expensive to hold together every quarter.
The leaders who move the balance sheet are the ones who learn to read that gap before it reads them. This is your billion dollar Blind$pot. Every business has one. Most never measure it. Because performance is a system, not a talent.
Why Leaders Choose This Assessment
Unlike generic personality quizzes, this assessment process is designed specifically for
founders, executives, and business leaders who want practical insight they can apply immediately.
Leadership Blind Spot Assessment
Uncover hidden patterns and leadership gaps.
PERMA Wellbeing Assessment
Understand the wellbeing factors that fuel performance.
Personalized Results Review
Receive a tailored report with key insights and opportunities.
Strategic Next-Step Recommendations
Get actionable steps and a plan for growth.
Why Leaders Choose This Assessment
Unlike generic personality quizzes, this assessment process is designed specifically for
founders, executives, and business leaders who want practical insight they can apply immediately.
Leadership Blind Spot Assessment
Uncover hidden patterns and leadership gaps.
PERMA Wellbeing Assessment
Understand the wellbeing factors that fuel performance.
Personalized Results Review
Receive a tailored report with key insights and opportunities.
Strategic Next-Step Recommendations
Get actionable steps and a plan for growth.
How It Works
Apply
Submit your application for personal review.
Complete Your Assessments
Explore ABC and PERMA through both leadership perspectives.
60-Minute Private Strategy Session
Review your results and identify the gaps influencing your leadership.
Your 90-Day Game Plan
Receive your personalized plan in a 30-minute follow-up presentation.
A personal diagnostic for leaders ready to look in the mirror.
This is for leaders ready to do the work. The ones willing to see what they have been missing and commit to becoming one percent better every day, for their team and for their business.
The Blind$pot Assessment brings together two evidence-based psychological frameworks, explored through two perspectives: how you experience yourself as a leader and how you perceive your team's experience. The gaps reveal patterns worth examining, giving you a clearer view of your leadership and a focused 90-day plan for what comes next.
The Investment
$2,500 USD
Application required. Reviewed personally.
Gain Greater Clarity On:
- Leadership strengths
- Decision-making patterns
- Hidden performance barriers
- Team dynamics
- Personal wellbeing factors
- Growth opportunities
- Sustainable leadership practices
These insights give you a clearer picture of how you show up as a leader today, so you can make more intentional decisions about where to focus next.
Who This Is For
Business
Owners
Founders
CEOs
Executive
Leaders
Leadership
Teams
High-Growth
Companies
If you're committed to becoming a more effective leader while building a healthier, stronger business, this process was designed for you.
What Happens Next
Who This Is For
Business
Owners
Founders
CEOs
Executive
Leaders
Leadership
Teams
High-Growth
Companies
If you're committed to becoming a more effective leader while building a healthier, stronger business, this process was designed for you.
What Happens Next
Meet Hacia
Hacia Atherton is the Strategist and High Performance Culture Expert CEOs and boards hire when culture is testing the business. She works with founders, executive teams, and senior leaders inside construction, manufacturing, mining, finance, private equity, and family business to find the behavioral gaps quietly costing millions and billions inside their operations.
The work is personal. In 2017, a 1,300 pound horse crushed her in a training accident taking away her ability to walk. Six months in hospital, over thirty operations, and 117 days later she stood. The science of positive psychology that brought her back is the science she now takes into boardrooms. Trauma turned into triumph, and triumph into a framework for the businesses she now serves.
A Master of Applied Positive Psychology, Hacia is trained in the behavioral design principles every high-performing culture runs on. As a Certified Practising Accountant (CPA, AUS), she applies forensic financial rigor to the human-centric problems most boards have stopped measuring, and names the dollar value of the blind spot most P&Ls never report. Her authority comes from inside the industries she now reshapes as a former CEO in male-dominated sectors, an advisory board member to university business schools and government ministers on workforce reform, and Founder and Chair of Empowered Women in Trades.
She is the author of The Billion Dollar Blind$pot, a three-time Amazon bestseller in Strategic Management and Behavioural Psychology, and co-author with Joe Foster, Founder of Reebok, in the How to Survive and Thrive series. Her work translates positive, behavioural, and organisational psychology into commercial language a board can act on.
She is the author of The Billion Dollar Blind$pot, a three-time Amazon bestseller in Strategic Management and Behavioral Psychology, and co-author with Joe Foster, Founder of Reebok, in the How to Survive and Thrive series. Her work translates positive, behavioral, and organizational psychology into commercial language a board can act on.
Awards
Business Elite Awards: 40 Under 40 (2024)
Australian Women's Small Business Champion Awards 2024
Leading Innovator in Workforce Diversity 2024
3x
Amazon bestselling author
EWIT
Founder & Chair
MAPP
Applied Positive Psychology
CPA (AUS)
Certified Practicing Accountant
CEO
Held multiple CEO & interim CEO roles
Millimeters dictated the line between life and death.
In July 2017, I was training my dressage mare to qualify for the World Equestrian Games. A 1,300-pound horse reared vertically, threw me, and crashed down on top of me in the arena. My legs went lifeless. I army-crawled across the sand to avoid being trampled.
I was airlifted to The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. Six months in hospital. Over thirty operations. I stood on land 117 days after the accident.
What changed me was not the accident. It was what came after. Strangers washing my body. Decisions made about me, around me, without me. Moments where I felt every part of my humanity slip away, while everyone in the room meant well. I had time to think while I could not move. And what I kept thinking was this. The dehumanization I was experiencing here, in a hospital bed, is what millions of people experience every day inside the businesses they work for. Not because anyone is cruel. Because the systems they operate in were never designed to see them.
Somewhere in that recovery, I found positive psychology. Not as a theory. As the thing that got me through. The science of how humans actually flourish became the work I now build everything on. It allowed me to turn trauma into triumph.
This is why the work is personal. I know what it costs to be unseen. I know what it costs to miss the thing you cannot see in others. And I know what becomes possible when the systems we build are designed for humans to thrive, so the businesses they power can thrive with them.
What Leaders Are Saying
“
Hacia Atherton is the kind of operator you want in your corner. She brings genuine thinking to brand work that most companies treat as purely strategic, and she delivers. In an industry full of people who talk about impact, Hacia actually creates it.
- Alexandra Senter
CEO, Sentral Media Group
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As a Coach, she has an innate ability to create a psychologically safe environment to challenge thinking that leads to faster breakthroughs. 10 minutes with her unlocked new thinking for me that helped to refine my go-to-market processes. As business evolves to be more human-centric, I highly recommend booking her for your next corporate event or engaging her as a coach to improve team performance.
- AJ Kulatunga
CEO, AJK Global
“
Hacia Atherton has provided a guide to navigating a corporate world that is increasingly dysfunctional due to our fear of change. She points out practical steps we can take to put the “human” back into “humanity”… an essential skill in a world rapidly changing with artificial intelligence.
- Jim Keyes
Former CEO of 7-Eleven & Blockbuster
“
Hacia is a gifted speaker, connecting with people immediately (and via a screen!) at such an authentic, human level, you both laugh and cry! Importantly she left our group today inspired to take action, to be themselves, to redefine what success means for them, to share their vulnerable wonderful selves and become extra awesome!
- Stephanie Jonovska
Head of Commercial Services and Transformation at bluescope
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We are truly delighted to have invited you to come along to speak and share your knowledge, and I’m sure you’re going to be back again real soon if it’s up to us!
- John Peterson
Managing Director, Best Practice Group Pty Ltd
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Hacia Atherton has provided a guide to navigating a corporate world that is increasingly dysfunctional due to our fear of change. She points out practical steps we can take to put the “human” back into “humanity”… an essential skill in a world rapidly changing with artificial intelligence.
- Cr Rochelle Halstead
Councillor for Western Port Ward at Bass Coast Shire Council
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a cost?
The Leadership Blind$pot Assessment is an investment of USD 2,500. Applications are reviewed before a place is offered, and payment details are sent only to applicants who are accepted.
When will I receive my results?
Your responses come to Hacia directly. She reviews them personally and then takes you through what she found in a sixty minute conversation, scheduled after your responses are in.
Is my information confidential?
Absolutely. We maintain strict confidentiality protocols to ensure your data and responses are completely secure.
Find your billion dollar Blind$pot.
The Assessment is built for leaders ready to see what they have been missing. Applications are reviewed personally, and the right fit moves quickly.
