Barrett Model
The 7 Levels for Aligned Growth,
Personal Effectiveness,
and Coherent Steering.
Imagine Your Organization as a Living System — or, More Simply, as a Tree
Roots grow deep and provide stability. The trunk aligns the whole, holding the weight, conducting energy, coherence and flow. The crown stretches toward the light – toward growth, insight and expansion. Everything is connected. Each part influences, nourishes and regulates the others. Together, they give the system its vitality, shape and direction.
The Barrett Model reflects exactly this. It maps and it reveals the dynamic, evolving system of your organisation – structured and whole. It makes visible what often remains beneath the surface: values. Intention. Growth opportunities. Areas of tension. It shows where your impact lies today – and where your next level of development awaits. For individuals. For your leadership team. For the entire organization.
How Does it Support You?
01
Powerful & Impactful
You align inner clarity, values, and intention with strategic direction and structured action. This creates genuine, sustainable impact – from the inside out. Your personal agency and effectiveness is strengthened and anchored in shared purpose.
02
Precise & Communicable
You create and establish a shared language for values-based collaboration and leadership. This provides orientation – especially in complex situations – and enables constructive conversations about what often remains unspoken.
03
Measurable & Ongoing
Culture becomes visible: with precise data on current and desired values, entropy scores on structurally unproductive patterns, and smart development profiles. This allows you to track progress – while activating and following-up on the true levers for transformation.
Why This Model Matters to Us at lovecom
It translates depth into clarity.
The 7 Levels Model bridges scientific validity and business reality with a language that is simple, human, and accessible to every leader.
It works across all levels.
It enables us to seamlessly integrate and amplify individual growth and systemic transformation — aligning our offers, advisory, and development journeys with your real needs.
It provides structured, strategic orientation.
With the assessment tools and analytics available, values can be identified, tensions localised, changes targeted and an integrated vision for the desired future developed – strategically, systemically and comprehensibly.
It’s part of a larger transformational framework.
We use it within a whole-system perspective – for meaningful and lasting change. By aligning strategic governance, leadership, and culture over time.
For more than 10 years, the 7 Levels Model of Conscious Growth has served as a backbone and compass in our collaborations.
To reveal and align your true drivers – at individual, team, and organizational levels.
Where the Barrett Model Comes From
British thought leader Richard Barrett developed the model in the late 1990s. Drawing on Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, models of personal development, as well as Eastern wisdom traditions, he translated human growth into an universal map for transformation.
Since then, more than 6 million assessments have been conducted across companies, NGOs, and public institutions worldwide. The insight: human and organizational development follow recognisable stages of maturity — regardless of industry, size, or culture. The 7 Levels Model makes these stages visible, accessible, and actionable.
1997
Founding of the Barrett Values Centre
2000+
First major projects in Fortune 500 companies
Today
Over 100 partners in 90 countries, database with millions of records for culture & industry benchmark. Our lovecom consultants are certified partners of the Barrett Values Centre.
Ready for Your Values Check?
Every organisation, every individual, has an inner life — shaped by values, beliefs and patterns that often remain unseen or only partially known. Yet they influence everything.
If you’d like to explore what’s beneath the surface, and make these dynamics visible — we’re here. Together, we can look at where you, your team or your organisation stand — and what’s ready to grow next.
With Clarity. Depth. With Vitality – and Vision.