EXECUTIVE ASSESSMENT
You are being trusted with leadership decisions that shape organizations.
Addison Leadership Advisory helps executive search firms, leadership advisory practices, and PE-backed organizations evaluate executives with greater clarity, confidence, and contextual insight.
ENGAGEMENT STRUCTURE
A focused assessment engagement designed for high-stakes leadership decisions.
Leadership Assessment & Executive Interview
Executives complete behavioral and leadership assessments prior to a 90-minute assessment interview focused on decision-making patterns, leadership judgment, operating style, adaptability, and executive effectiveness within the realities of the role.
Contextual Evaluation & Written Recommendation
Assessment findings are interpreted within the context of the role, business environment, and leadership demands. A concise written assessment provides strategic observations, leadership considerations, and recommendation guidance to support hiring and succession decisions.
Client Debrief
A confidential advisory discussion to review findings, discuss implications, and support clearer, higher-confidence leadership decisions.
Typical Engagement Timeline: 5–7 business days from interview to written assessment delivery.
The strongest executive recommendations are built on clearer leadership insight.
Experience, credentials, and interviews rarely provide the full picture. The leadership decisions that matter most often depend on factors that are harder to evaluate clearly — judgment under pressure, decision-making patterns, adaptability, and leadership dynamics.
This assessment process helps executive search firms, leadership advisors, and PE-backed organizations evaluate executives with greater rigor, clearer perspective, and stronger confidence.
Includes executive interview, psychometric review, and written leadership assessment.
IN PRACTICE
Where Executive Assessment Creates Clarity
Executive Selection
A PE-backed company was deciding between two finalists for a critical executive role, but interviews alone were not clarifying how each leader would operate under pressure or within the company’s growth stage.
Result: The assessment clarified leadership risks, operating differences, and long-term fit considerations before the final hiring decision.
Leadership Fit
An executive search firm was presenting several highly qualified candidates who appeared similarly strong on paper but carried materially different leadership risks.
Result: Assessment findings strengthened client recommendations and improved confidence in the final selection process.
Succession Decisions
A leadership advisory firm needed independent behavioral insight to support a sensitive succession planning engagement involving competing leadership styles and unclear readiness.
Result: The assessment surfaced leadership readiness gaps and clarified developmental priorities before transition decisions moved forward.
Clear insight before critical leadership decisions move forward.
Executive Assessments
Starting at $3,500
Includes behavioral assessment review, executive interview, contextual leadership evaluation, written recommendation summary, and confidential client debrief.
Every assessment is interpreted within the context of the role, leadership demands, and business environment surrounding the decision.
