Run The Lighthouse Check & Walk Away With:
- Clarity on which of the five SHINE decisions is currently costing you most
- A specific practice you can implement this week to shift it
- An honest reading on whether you're leading your business, or just keeping the lights on
10 questions · 5 minutes · Free · Results immediately
The SHINE Framework: 5 Dimensions of Leadership
State
State measures the emotional baseline you bring into the room—steady or reactive, present or scattered.
Horizon
Horizon shows whether you’re clear on the single most important point of focus, or drifting in the fog.
Identity
Identity reveals who you are being when the pressure is highest—fixed point or swept by the tide.
Navigate
Navigate pinpoints your next move when the plan breaks or the route disappears.
Energy
Energy tracks how you spend, replenish, and transfer fuel—to yourself and your team—when conditions get tough.
About Paul Adamson
Skipper, Senior Leader & Keynote Speaker
I'm Paul. I'm a skipper.
25 years. Over 250,000 nautical miles. Caribbean docks, the Cape of Good Hope, around the world with my wife.
For the last 18 years, it's also meant businesses — my own, and the founders I coach. The boat changes. The job doesn't. You hold the wheel. You read the weather. You steady the people on board.
The SHINE framework — State, Horizon, Identity, Navigate, Energy — came out of three storms of my own.
A night gybing north off the Cape of Good Hope I'll never forget. Rebuilding a global luxury yacht brand out of administration as Chief Commercial Officer — and growing the forward order book to £185M, sold out four years deep, before I left. And a blood cancer diagnosis I didn't see coming.
The same five decisions held in all three.
Be the Lighthouse is my forthcoming book. The Lighthouse Check is the compass from inside it.
A Framework Developed At Sea & Tested For Real.
A SHINE Workshop with a senior leadership team. The work is the same on stage as it is at sea — you read the room, you steady the room.
Portland Bill. Shot from my drone, on a passage south. A reminder that lighthouses don't chase ships — they stand firm.
On our circumnavigation somewhere between St Helena & Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean
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