Assessments & Diagnostics
We help you reimagine your organization, align your people and systems, and build the resilience to thrive in a world of constant change.
Leadership & Organizational Assessments That Deliver Strategic Insight
Gain the clarity to lead smarter. Our assessments combine proprietary tools and best-in-class products to evaluate both individual leaders and organizational dynamics.
What You Get
- Actionable Intelligence: Understand how your leaders and culture align with your strategy—and where to focus development.
- Precision Development: Use data to target growth areas, accelerate transformation, and strengthen leadership pipelines.
- System-Level Insight: Assess organizational readiness, resilience, and capacity for change.
How It Works
These insights are aligned with The Innovative Leadership System™, which provides the framework for interpreting results and guiding system-level transformation.
We integrate assessments into leadership development, coaching, and transformation programs—giving you the insight to lead with confidence.
Choose Your Assessment Path
Start where you are. Scale as needed.
Leadership and organizational assessments serve different purposes depending on the decisions you need to make. These insights often inform our Strategy to Execution and Leadership Continuity & Succession work, where leadership systems are redesigned to improve performance, strengthen alignment, and build sustainable leadership capacity. We work with leaders and organizations across two primary assessment paths, each designed to deliver the right level of insight for your context.
Path 1: Individual Leadership Insight
(Self‑Serve or Light Facilitation)
Best when you need to:
- Build leadership self‑awareness quickly
- Understand mindsets, behaviors, or development priorities
- Prepare for growth, transition, or expanded responsibility
- Establish a credible starting point before deeper investment
What you receive:
- Evidence‑based leadership assessments
- Clear, actionable individual reports highlighting strengths, risks, and growth areas
- Optional debrief or coaching conversations to translate insight into action
Best for:
Individual executives, senior leaders, and high‑potential talent
Path 2: Organizational & System Insight
(Facilitated, Advisory‑Led)
Best when you need to:
- Improve execution, alignment, or decision quality
- Make leadership capacity, succession readiness, or transformation risk visible
- Align leaders around shared evidence before investing in change
- Diagnose organizational readiness in complex, fast‑changing environments
What you receive:
- Leadership and organizational diagnostics aligned to strategy
- Facilitated interpretation and executive‑level synthesis
- Clear recommendations tied to leadership systems, capability building, or transformation priorities
Best for:
Executive teams and enterprise organizations navigating complexity, growth, or transition
Assessment Solutions
Leadership Assessments
Our suite of highly specialized assessments stands out by honing leaders’ self-awareness and targeting specific areas for improvement. When used together, these assessments provide a comprehensive approach to leadership development that surpasses other offerings.
The Innovative Leadership Institute works with you to empower your employees to engage in personal development. We partner with you to ensure managers and coaches have the necessary tools and data they need to support growth and development.
We offer best-in-class and proprietary assessments as part of our leadership development programs and stand-alone services to support individual and organizational needs. These assessments can be integrated into your ongoing training and coaching programs.
Assessments Used By The Innovative Leadership Institute
The STAGES model speaks holistically to health at all levels of the human being, and supports growing up, waking up, and cleaning up. A STAGES assessment not only locates your developmental center of gravity, but our written Report and personal Debrief sessions lead to rich conversations about your unique life situation in terms of your aspirations, leading edge skills, and psychological shadows. Many use STAGES to guide ongoing learning, counseling, or coaching experiences. ILI uses this developmental assessment across its leadership programs Learn more about this assessment here and our partnership here.
The Leadership Circle Profile® (LCP) provides a 360-degree assessment of leadership skills and provides behavior feedback via the detailed snapshot in time, enabling leaders to answer the question: “How are my behaviors and mindset enabling or constraining my intended leadership impact and our business performance?” Learn more about this assessment here.
Measuring emotional intelligence performance – or how your EQ is showing up and impacting others – the SEI 360 is an in-depth, multi-rater feedback tool that provides clear, valuable feedback in a framework for action. Learn more about this assessment here.
Organizational Assessments
The Innovative Leadership Institute works with you to identify your organizational health, evaluate your culture, and look at your overall transformation readiness. We offer customized assessments that evaluate each of these areas as well as a tailored report of our findings so that you can identify how you want to move toward your desired goals. To get started with your customized assessment plan, click the button below and schedule a call.
Assessments Used By The Innovative Leadership Institute
ILI’s proprietary Organizational Health Check evaluates the organization across 25 dimensions. We look at your current and desired state and prioritize the most significant impact and risk areas.
This is an Innovative Leadership Institute proprietary assessment that looks at organizational alignment to support change readiness and change implementation success.
The Innovative Leadership Institute uses the Institute of Strategic Clarity’s Vibrancy assessment to determine your culture of innovation and facilitate discussions to identify how you can move toward your desired state.
Innovative Leadership IT Leaders™
A peer-based development program for CIOs and senior IT leaders navigating strategy, AI governance, and enterprise transformation.
The Innovative Leadership IT Leaders program develops the leadership competencies most critical to technology initiative success—equipping CIOs, CTOs, and senior IT leaders to navigate the intersection of technical execution, organizational influence, and AI-era complexity.
The program develops capability across five dimensions:
- Strategic alignment: Connecting technology decisions to enterprise priorities and board-level outcomes
- Decision velocity: Making and committing to high-quality decisions at the pace the organization requires
- Stakeholder influence: Building trust, communicating value, and leading across organizational boundaries
- Change leadership: Guiding teams and organizations through technology-driven transformation
- AI governance readiness: Leading responsible AI adoption with appropriate oversight and risk management
Who it’s designed for:
CIOs, CTOs, VPs of Technology, and senior IT leaders responsible for enterprise technology strategy, transformation, and AI readiness. Also used by CHROs and L&D leaders investing in technology leadership pipelines.
How it works:
The Innovative Leadership IT Leaders program combines assessment, cohort-based development, peer learning, and ILI advisory to build leadership capability that holds under pressure — before, during, and after major technology initiatives.
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The assessments offered by the Innovative Leadership Institute have been a game-changer for our leadership team. They go far beyond surface-level diagnostics—each tool provides deep, actionable insights into how our leaders think, behave, and influence others. By integrating these assessments into our development strategy, we’ve seen measurable improvements in self-awareness, team dynamics, and strategic alignment.
ILI’s approach helped us identify not just individual growth opportunities, but also systemic patterns that were holding our organization back. The result? Stronger leaders, more cohesive teams, and a culture that’s better equipped to navigate complexity and change.