A full diagnostic of leadership capability, run as an adaptive AI conversation instead of a questionnaire, and scored against the first rigorously constructed causal map of leadership capability we are aware of. It finds the component that is producing the pattern, then hands you the plan.
Two versions: the Light evaluation, about one hour, included with every Leaderwired Institute membership; and the Comprehensive Diagnostic, four to six hours, built for enterprise and government clients.
A leader can score beautifully on a questionnaire and still freeze, deflect or escalate the first time a genuinely tense conversation lands on their desk. The questionnaire only ever asked them to describe themselves. Organizations pay for that gap twice: once for development that starts in the wrong place, and again when nobody can prove it worked.
Nobody accurately rates their own blind spot. That is what makes it a blind spot. People describe themselves generously on exactly the qualities that are hardest to self-rate: composure, reading the room, taking feedback without getting defensive.
A score per dimension, no explanation. "Low on composure," with nothing about what it looks like in the room or why it shows up when things get hard. The leader files the report. Six months later, nothing looks different.
Even the honest instruments stop at the pattern. A leader who avoids the hard conversation is told they avoid the hard conversation. Which layer of their wiring is producing it, and what to fix first, stays a guess.
What has been missing is a way to see what a leader does the moment things get uncomfortable, trace it to the cause, and hand them the next step. That is what we built.
Most assessments start from a list of traits and a survey. The Conversational Leadership Evaluation starts from a harder question: what actually drives leadership capability, and what drives that? Answering it produced something the market did not have: a proprietary, tiered causal map of leadership capability, the intellectual property at the core of Leaderwired Institute.
That map is the standard every evaluation scores against. Because it knows which capabilities drive which, it can trace the pattern it observes in a leader back to the cause producing it, and tell you why instead of only what. It is the first rigorously constructed causal map of leadership capability we are aware of, and how it was built stays with us.
components of leadership capability in the map, so no part of how a leader actually operates goes unmeasured.
groups, arranged in tiers, so the evaluation can tell a root cause from a symptom.
causal judgements mapping how the groups drive each other, so a visible pattern can be traced upstream to its cause.
No form to fill in. The evaluation is a conversation by voice or text in your browser, and every next question depends on what you just did.
The AI assessor talks with you about real situations from your own work, and in some moments plays the people in them. Some moments are deliberately challenging. There are no trick questions about you personally, just situations.
The conversation adapts as it goes. Where a questionnaire asks everyone the same thing, the evaluation follows the evidence: it probes where your answers and your behavior diverge, and moves on where they agree.
What you did is read against the causal map: which components showed up, which group they belong to, and which upstream group is driving them. Pressure is measured on its own, because that is where development actually lives.
The result becomes a customized personal development plan: the exact Leaderwired Institute courses and AI Coach Anna sessions that address the cause. A later re-evaluation, on different scenes, shows what actually changed.
Every instrument we build is designed to earn trust first, so that what it tells you is worth acting on. That means the reason behind every finding, evidence you can recognize, and no false precision.
The Conversational Leadership Evaluation is built to develop a leader, not to justify a decision already made about them. The Light version is included with every Leaderwired Institute membership, with unlimited re-evaluations. The Comprehensive Diagnostic is built for enterprise and government clients and is priced separately.
Both versions are adaptive AI conversations scored against the full causal map. They differ in how far down the map the conversation goes, and in who they are built for.
For the individual leader.
About one hour.
For enterprise and government clients.
Four to six hours.
Standard emotional-intelligence tests ask a leader to rate themselves. The Conversational EQ Assessment watches. It puts you into a handful of short, real conversations, some with the assessor playing someone from your own work life, and reads what you actually did.
domains of emotional intelligence, read from live, pressured conversations.
minutes for the full assessment. Ten for the Snapshot.
A development investment with a starting point, a sequence and proof at the end. Every leader in a cohort begins with the Light evaluation, so development starts in the right place for each of them and the organization has a measured baseline. Organizations that want the full depth can add the Comprehensive Diagnostic, four to six hours that map each leader's capability to the root, priced separately. The Institute does the developing. A re-evaluation at ninety days shows how behavior under pressure moved.
Competency Demonstration Scores and the reporting ledger sit alongside it, per learner and per objective, so HR and the leadership team can see who can now do what.
Every leader starts with the Light evaluation, so development has a starting point and a sequence. The Comprehensive Diagnostic, priced separately, goes the full depth.
Leaders work through the Institute with the map in hand: the courses their plan prescribes, AI Coach Anna between sessions, reinforcement that holds.
A re-evaluation at ninety days, on different scenes, shows the change. The ledger shows it per learner and per objective.
Start with the evaluation as a member, or bring it to every leader you are responsible for.