Leadership Assessments
From Assessment to Leadership Intelligence
We can turn leadership assessment into leadership intelligence by connecting rigorous data about leaders with the business outcomes they are accountable for delivering. This enables organisations to make better decisions about who they hire, promote, develop and deploy and, over time, to understand which leadership capabilities drive performance.
What makes our approach distinctive?
We turn leadership assessment into leadership intelligence by connecting rigorous data about leaders with the business outcomes they are accountable for delivering. This enables organisations to make better decisions about who they hire, promote, develop and deploy and, over time, to understand which leadership capabilities drive performance in their organisation.
Enterprise-grade security, analytics and reporting, built to support leadership assessment at scale.
Proven technology platform
Senior practitioners who combine deep assessment expertise with real-world commercial and leadership experience.
Global network of experts
A suite of tested methodologies tailored to the demands of the role, organisation and business context.
Rigorous assessment methods
Together, these give organisations something different: the ability to assess leaders rigorously and consistently anywhere in the world; build secure leadership data at scale; benchmark individuals and populations against relevant executive standards; and translate that evidence into practical business advice.
For the leader
At an individual level, we provide rigorous evidence to support immediate decisions on hiring, promotion, succession and development.
For the division
At a cohort level, we identify patterns in leadership capability, experience, readiness and risk—showing where the organisation is strong and where intervention is required.
For the CEO, Board and Investors
At an organisational level, we connect leadership patterns with business performance to understand where leadership is enabling performance—and where it may be constraining it.
Over time, as longitudinal data accumulates, organisations can go further: testing which leadership variables are genuinely associated with business outcomes, rather than relying solely on generic competency models, intuition or management judgement.
The impact we create - Selected case studies
A global telecommunications organisation with operations across more than 40 countries and close to 100,000 employees needed a more consistent way to evaluate executive potential across markets and functions.
We translated its leadership principles into observable assessment criteria, built a consistent methodology combining psychometrics, interviews, simulations and stakeholder evidence, and conducted executive leadership assessments globally.
The result was an enterprise-level view of executive readiness that had not existed in the firm in over a decade, with clarity on, succession risks and the development required across the leadership pipeline.
Building a global executive pipeline
An international business under private equity ownership needed to appoint a senior leader capable of strengthening the organisation and preparing it for exit (three-year horizon).
We designed the assessment around the demands of the role and the value-creation plan, using our methodology to identify and filter out candidates whose capabilities or risks were unlikely to translate into success in the business.
The successful candidate was appointed, and we co-developed their 100-day plan before coaching them through the transition and subsequent transformation. The business went on to achieve a successful exit.
Supporting a critical appointment