Integrated
Coherence and reserve are present.
Values, identity, relationships, and decision-making remain accessible and meaningfully connected under the present level of pressure.
Leadership Integrity Threshold Theory
Leadership breakdown often begins before people can see it.
Leadership Integrity Threshold Theory offers a framework for examining where strain may be appearing and how pressure may be affecting identity, values, judgment, relationships, and organizational life.
The LITT Assessment translates your responses into a personalized report that gives you language for the patterns reflected in your life and leadership now.
28 questions • Approximately 10–30 minutes • Personalized report
You don’t have to wait until there’s visible harm.
THE PRESSURE PROBLEM
Pressure rarely announces where it is changing you.
A person can remain capable, productive, and respected while becoming less coherent across values, decisions, relationships, health, and identity.
The signs are not always dramatic. Pressure may first appear as a decision repeatedly postponed, a value applied inconsistently, a relationship receiving what work leaves behind, or a version of the self that exists only in certain rooms.
It often begins quietly.
High performance can make strain difficult to recognize, especially when the work is still getting done.
It changes more than output.
Pressure can affect judgment, emotional regulation, relationships, health, identity, and the ability to act in accordance with what matters.
It compounds over time.
Pressure can affect judgment, emotional regulation, relationships, health, identity, and the ability to act in accordance with what matters.
THE THEORY
What is LITT?
Leadership Integrity Threshold Theory is Sharona D. Henderson’s emerging theory for understanding what happens when pressure exceeds a person’s or organization’s present capacity to remain coherent, aligned, and whole.
LITT does not treat integrity as a fixed moral label. It examines integrity as the ability to preserve or restore meaningful alignment among identity, values, decisions, relationships, structures, and action under pressure.
The theory asks a practical question: What happens when the weight a person or organization is carrying becomes greater than its present capacity to carry that weight without losing coherence?
LITT
THE DEVELOPING THEORY
Leadership Integrity Threshold Theory provides a framework for examining how pressure affects integrity, coherence, identity, judgment, relationships, structures, and organizational life.
THE LITT ASSESSMENT
THE INSTRUMENT
The 28-question LITT Assessment helps individuals reflect on patterns described by the theory and receive a personalized interpretation of their current responses.
*The assessment is one product created from the theory. Assessment results do not prove the theory, diagnose a condition, or predict a fixed outcome.
the CONDITIONS OF INTEGRITY
Four conditions support integrity under pressure.
In LITT, integrity means wholeness: whether identity, values, decisions, relationships, structures, and actions remain meaningfully connected under pressure.
It does not require perfection. It requires the ability to recognize strain, respond truthfully, and preserve or restore alignment when those parts begin to separate.
Visibility
Clarity
Viability
Alignment
The Five States
Five ways integrity can appear under pressure.
LITT uses five states to describe how well a person or system is maintaining wholeness under current pressure. The states describe a present condition, not a permanent identity, clinical diagnosis, or moral ranking.
Compartmentalized
Wholeness is divided to manage demand.
Different roles, contexts, or areas are being held apart so the person or system can continue functioning. The whole still functions, but with less shared capacity.
Fragmented
Continuity is becoming inconsistent.
Different areas no longer connect reliably. Values, decisions, relationships, or roles may begin operating by different rules.
Bending
Pressure is distorting the structure.
Pressure is changing how the person or system functions. Rationalization, value drift, over-adaptation, or narrowed judgment may be becoming part of the operating pattern.
Leaking
Internal strain is producing external consequence.
Strain is no longer contained. Its effects are showing up in decisions, relationships, health, behavior, or organizational life, and other people or systems may be absorbing the consequences.
The spectrum does not require every person or organizatio to move through each state in order. Different domains may reflect different states at the same time, and Leaking may result from one direct breach or from strain accumulating in several areas.
THE INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENT & REPORTS
Begin with your own patterns.
Complete the 28-question LITT Assessment and receive a personalized report that helps you examine how pressure may be affecting alignment across your life and leadership.
Your results reflect patterns in your responses during the period you are assessing. They are not a permanent identity, clinical diagnosis, moral judgment, or guaranteed prediction of what will happen next.
THE INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENT
$47
- 28 questions
- Approximately 10–30 minutes
- Two Personalized digital reports
- Interpretation across 10 areas of life and leadership
- Secure online access
*The LITT Assessment is a structured self-assessment. Its results are based on the responses you provide and should be interpreted within the context of your current life, leadership, and conditions.