The later stages of Root-to-Result® and why they matter in real leadership
When senior leaders step into new roles, the most important shifts aren’t internal – they’re visible.
That’s what the second half of Root-to-Result® is built for: turning belief into behaviour, and behaviour into measurable leadership impact.
Over the past eight weeks, I’ve been taking leaders through the full sequence of Root-to-Result® – my six-stage methodology built from my own executive experience to support senior leaders navigating transition, pressure and performance.
If you’re stepping into a new role, trying to scale your influence, or questioning whether recent shifts are actually holding, this is the part of the model that makes the difference.
In the first article, I focused on the internal foundation:
Clarity (F.O.C.A.L. Navigator™) → Conviction (CONSTANS™) → Insight (ROOTSCAN™).
This piece moves into the second half:
Behaviour (True Stance™) → Influence (RAMUS™) → Evidence (Return to Fruit™).
This is where internal work becomes visible leadership.
True Stance™ – Where Belief Becomes Behaviour
True Stance™ explores how belief shows up in behaviour – especially under pressure, when leaders are watched in moments but measured over time.
It asks a deceptively simple question:
What do people experience when you’re under pressure?
By this point, leaders have clarity, values, and a better understanding of their instinctive patterns.
True Stance™ turns that into consistency.
Not performance.
Not perfection.
Consistency that builds credibility.
Long before anyone reads your strategy, they feel your stance.
RAMUS™ – When Leadership Begins to Travel
If True Stance™ shapes how you show up, RAMUS™ is where it begins to travel through others.
Leadership doesn’t scale through intention alone – it scales through how well others can carry it.
RAMUS™ asks:
Can others act with the same clarity and integrity when you’re not in the room?
This stage moves leaders from personal capability to scalable influence.
We explore:
- how your message holds under pace and pressure
- how your stance strengthens the confidence of others
- how alignment moves through teams and systems
- where influence holds and where it distorts
At this point, leaders stop relying on effort, and start creating impact that extends through others.
Return to Fruit™ – Evidence, Not Assumptions
The final stage closes the loop.
Return to Fruit™ takes leaders back to the outcome they defined at the start, and asks what has genuinely shifted.
Not what should have shifted.
Not what you hoped would shift.
What has.
We explore:
- Which behaviours strengthened
- What decisions now feel different
- How influence showed up in others
- What people are noticing that they weren’t before
A simple example makes this real:
A leader who set out to “delegate better” notices their team now making confident decisions in meetings where they once looked to them for confirmation. The behaviour changed, and the evidence is visible.
If the original outcome is still right, we reinforce it.
If not, we refine it together.
Return to Fruit™ makes progress real — not assumed.
Bringing It All Together
The second half of Root-to-Result® connects who you are with how you lead and how that leadership holds in real conditions:
- True Stance™ – consistency under pressure
- RAMUS™ – influence that travels
- Return to Fruit™ – evidence that the shift is real
Where behaviour reflects belief.
Where influence carries clarity.
Where outcomes aren’t claimed they’re proven.
Leadership becomes reliable not because it looks polished, but because it holds when it matters.
Root-to-Result®. Structured. Strategic. Grounded in outcomes.
