For fast-scaling CEOs and leadership teams

Is your Executive Leadership Team ready for the next stage of growth?

In 7 minutes, score your executive team across role fit, coverage, load, decisions, and trust, and get an executive-level risk snapshot you can use to prep for your next raise, transition, or growth push.

  • ✓ Identify your top 3 leadership team failure risks across composition, blind spots, bench depth, alignment, and trust
  • ✓ Get a simple, shareable risk report for CEOs, boards, investors, and executive coaches
  • ✓ Leave with a clear focus to de-risk your growth plan before you add more headcount, capital, or complexity
Take the ELT Risk Assessment → Request a Risk Review

7 minutes · Instant results · Free

ELT Risk Snapshot · Sample 54Overall
Role Fit & Coverage38
Decisions & Accountability50
Executive Bench Depth44
Team Alignment63
Trust & Conflict Health75

Top risk: Role Fit & Coverage (38). At least one critical ELT seat is misaligned with your growth stage.

The real bottleneck

Your ELT is either your biggest growth lever, or your biggest growth constraint.

2xmore likely to hit financial targets when the ELT is aligned (McKinsey)
6xmore likely to be revenue and profit leaders in their industry (Bain & Co.)
65%of CEOs describe their ELTs as ineffective (Bain & Co.)
31%of ELT members see the C-suite as their primary team, not their function

When the ELT works, the business wins. When it doesn't, performance tanks and problems spiral out of control, leaving the CEO to do the heavy lifting and referee infighting.

We show you how to see, measure, and fix these problems before they become expensive failures. We help put the right leaders in the right roles, with the right support, across the entire value stream.

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What we hear most

Sound familiar?

01

"I'm doing everyone else's job."

The CEO is the bottleneck because the ELT doesn't have the range to own their lanes.

02

"We're misaligned on priorities."

Strategy looks clear at the top, but two layers down it's already fragmented.

03

"My board is losing confidence."

Investors can usually see team weakness before the CEO does, and they're likely already talking about it.

04

"Nobody disagrees with me."

A team that doesn't challenge or push back isn't a team. It's a group of people who prioritize their paycheck over executing your mission.

"To build great things at scale, you have to build great teams who can build great things. Upgrade your leadership team before raising capital, adding headcount, or launching another product."

Tom Cox, Founder, Vertical Motion · 3x CEO · $1.5B in new business closed

The ELT Scaling Suite

Three tools. One system. Built to scale with you.

Start free. See your risks. Then decide if you want the team that fixes them with you.

Step 1 · 7 minutes
ELT Risk Assessment

Your Leadership Team Risk Scorecard

  • Identify your top 3 leadership team failure risks across composition, blind spots, bench depth, alignment, and trust
  • Simple, shareable risk report for CEOs and boards
  • Clear focus to de-risk before you add headcount
Get Your ELT Risk Score →
Step 2 · 6 minutes
Behavioral Assessment

Leadership Drivers & Natural Aptitudes (LDNA™)

  • 7 dimensions grounded in behavioral science
  • Drive, social energy, pace, structure, creativity, logic, and vision scores
  • Understand your adaptive load, how much you stretch to do your job
Learn About LDNA →
Step 3 · 3-4 weeks
ELT Advanced Assessment

ELT Diagnostic

  • Leadership team assessments plus 1:1 interviews
  • Half-day workshop to align on org design and operating system
  • Leadership Team Risk Map with top risks and a 90-day plan for the CEO
Request an ELT Diagnostic →
How it works

From frustrated to frictionless in four steps.

1

Score your team in 7 minutes

The ELT Risk Assessment covers 5 dimensions: role fit, bench depth, decisions, alignment, and trust. Get your result instantly.

2

Learn your leadership style

Take the LDNA and try the powerful psychometric tool we use to determine fit in role, communication style, and how to align a leader with their strengths.

3

Book a Risk Review call

In 45 minutes, we walk through your results, quantify the cost of your top risks, and tell you exactly what it takes to close the gaps.

4

Upgrade the team

Engage the ELT Scaling System to build a leadership team that can take the company to the next level without you doing it all yourself.

Who it's built for

Not for every CEO. The right fit matters.

The ELT Scaling Suite is designed for a specific kind of leader at a specific kind of inflection point.

Scaling CEOs at $5M to $50M

You've got product-market fit. The team that got you here isn't necessarily the team that gets you there.

Pre-raise or pre-transition CEOs

Investors scrutinize the team first. Know your exposure before they do.

CEOs who feel like the bottleneck

When every hard call lands on your desk, that's not a strategy problem. It's a team architecture problem.

Investors & executive coaches

Use the scorecard to assess portfolio companies or client leadership teams with a shared language.

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The system

Build the team that scales your vision.

The ELT Scaling Suite is our end-to-end system for de-risking and scaling your executive team: from a 7-minute risk snapshot and LDNA profile, to a 30-day diagnostic, to a 12-month ELT Scaling System and long-term advisory.

Start free. See your risks. Then decide if you want the team that fixes them with you.

Get Your ELT Risk Score →
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LDNA Assessment

You can't upgrade the team until you know how you lead.

The Leadership Drivers & Natural Aptitudes (LDNA™) Assessment shows you how you actually lead, where your role is asking you to adapt, and what that gap is costing you every day. Seven dimensions, grounded in established behavioral science, results in six minutes.

Explore the LDNA →
DR

Drive + Independence

How hard you push and how much you need to own the outcome.

SE

Social Energy

Where you draw your energy from: people or solitude.

VI

Vision + Ideas

Your orientation toward future possibility versus present execution.

Start now

Know your team's risk before it costs you the business.

In 7 minutes and 20 questions, you'll have a risk map you can use to understand your top three leadership failure risks, so you know how to adjust your growth plan before you add headcount, capital, or complexity. And it's completely free.

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