Who’s On Your Crew?
Self Leadership Assessment
Who's On Your Crew? A Self Leadership Assessment
Making Sense of Your Inner World
There's a whole world inside you — a living inner system of emotions, instincts, beliefs, memories, and protective strategies that learned, over time, how to help you survive, belong, and stay safe.
You may experience these inner forces as moods, reactions, patterns, inner voices, or versions of yourself that seem to take over in certain moments.
When one of these takes the lead, it doesn't feel like a part. It feels like you.
And then, at another time, a completely different version of you shows up.
This can be confusing, frustrating, and sometimes painful.
This assessment exists to help make sense of that inner experience — so you are no longer confusing to yourself.
What Are Inner Crews?
In this framework, these adaptive protective patterns are called Inner Crews.
There are nine distinct constellations of parts and patterns that tend to organize the human inner world.
Each Crew forms around a core vulnerability — a wound, a fear, a belief that took hold early — and develops specific ways of protecting you from pain, overwhelm, or threat.
Your Crews are not flaws. They are not diagnoses. They are not fixed personality types. They are intelligent, adaptive responses your system developed in response to real experiences and real emotional environments.
The challenge is not that these Crews exist. It's that they were never meant to run your life.
When Crews Take the Helm
Crews tend to take the lead when your system doesn't feel safe — when you're tired, overwhelmed, emotionally activated, or disconnected from yourself. For some people this state of unsafety has been temporary. For others, it has been a lifelong condition.
When a Crew is leading, your perception narrows, reactions intensify, and your sense of choice diminishes. You may strongly identify with that state as simply who you are.
This assessment helps you recognize which Crews tend to take the helm, how they try to protect you, and what they're organized around.
A Note from Guy
I built this assessment because I needed it myself — before I had the language, the framework, or the tools to make it.
For years I appeared functional while something underneath was quietly running the show. I didn't know what my Crews were. I didn't know what they were protecting. I just knew that in certain situations, certain relationships, certain rooms — I disappeared into patterns I couldn't explain and couldn't seem to change.
Understanding my inner system changed that. Not all at once. Not perfectly. But in ways that were real, and lasting, and worth every bit of the work.
That's why every report is prepared personally. I read your responses. I put care into what comes back to you. This isn't automated — it's me, taking your inner world seriously, the same way I'd want someone to take mine.
— Guy Reichard, HeartRich Coaching
What People Have Said
"At the center of this pattern is an Exile who carries the ache of never quite feeling prepared for life — as if everyone else received a manual you somehow missed." --- "This is exactly how I feel most days."
J. Wise
"The assessment was easy to complete. The personalized report that followed was very insightful and felt accurate. Knowing now that I have a mixed crew rather than just a personality type makes more sense to why and how I respond to different life circumstances. The report also gives practical useful information on a personalized path to living more authentically leading with my true self with less fear. After receiving some coaching I do think my Self Leadership Score is higher than it would have been 5 years ago. "
L. Simon
"I've done other assessments. This one held up — and felt far more compassionate and supportive than anything I'd tried before."
Matt S.
How This Works
1. Take the assessment: Identify the protective patterns most active in your system right now, get to know your Crew, and gauge your current level of Self Leadership. Takes approximately 10–15 minutes. Start the assessment.
2. Receive your personalized report: Within a couple of days, I personally prepare and send your report — a detailed, compassionate portrait of your dominant Crew members, what their roles are, what they're protecting, and a clear path toward growth. Look out for an email from me personally.
3. Expand your understanding: A day or two after you receive your report, I will email you a copy of the Getting to Know Your Inner Crews Guide. It’s a gentle, clear introduction to the framework to help you understand your assessment, and get to know other Crews and parts of you.
4. Go deeper (optional): Explore How to Talk Amongst Your Selves, work with the framework on your own, or reach out about coaching if you'd like support building lasting inner trust and Self Leadership.
What the Report Includes
Your personalized report covers:
Your Self Leadership Score — reflecting how accessible Self currently is when protection activates, given your present context, stress load, and available supports.
Your Crew Configuration — whether you have a dominant Crew or a Mixed Crew profile, with a clear explanation of what that means for you specifically.
Your Exile profile — the core vulnerability or wound your system has been organizing around, described with care and without judgment.
Your Manager profile — the proactive protective strategy most active in your system, including its voice, its logic, and its intention.
Your Reliever profile — the reactive coping pattern that steps in when prevention isn't enough.
Your Growth Path — a specific, compassionate orientation toward what Self Leadership development looks like for your configuration.
And a clear set of next steps — including resources, practices, and optional support.
Important to Know
This is not a personality test. It does not define who you are.
Your results reflect your current conditions — your stress load, your nervous system state, your available support — not a fixed or permanent identity. The same person may score differently in a different season of life.
No Crew is good or bad. Every Crew formed to protect something real.
The framework and report are designed for coaching, self-reflection, and personal growth. They are not intended to diagnose, treat, or replace mental health care or clinical therapy.
A Final Note
You don't need to identify with any particular Crew to begin. Curiosity, honesty, and self-kindness are enough.
This work is not about becoming better.
It's about becoming more Self-led.
And when that happens — even slowly, even imperfectly — your inner world begins to feel less like a conflict and more like a community you can actually lead.
The Who’s On Your Crew? Self Leadership Assessment is developed by Guy Reichard, HeartRich Coaching, and is based on his IFS-inspired Self Leadership framework and How to Talk Amongst Your Selves: A Beginner's Guide to Self Leadership.
© HeartRich Coaching — Guy Reichard