Leadership Performance Diagnostic
Leadership Performance Diagnostic
Find out why your leadership team isn't delivering, and what to fix first.
Find out why your leadership team isn't delivering, and what to fix first.
A three-to-four week engagement for technology organizations that need a clear answer before they invest in another solution.
Your company's success depends on leadership execution. Right now, something isn't working.
Projects slip. Goals get missed. Your strongest leaders are running on fumes, and the ones who were supposed to step up haven't. Most organizations respond with more training, and six months later they're back in the same meeting asking the same questions. Training fixes one kind of problem, and the diagnostic tells you whether that's the kind you have.
Is it Skill, Will, or Environment?
When a leadership team underperforms, there are three possible reasons. The leaders don't know how, they don't want to, or they're working in conditions that make success unlikely. Most leadership development is built for the first one.
In technology organizations, the real issue usually lives in the other two: priorities that shift every week, decision rights nobody defined, strong engineers promoted into management without anyone rethinking the role. The diagnostic shows you which of the three you're dealing with, and for which leaders, so your next investment goes where it will actually work.
When a leadership team underperforms, there are three possible reasons. The leaders don't know how, they don't want to, or they're working in conditions that make success unlikely. Most leadership development is built for the first one.
In technology organizations, the real issue usually lives in the other two: priorities that shift every week, decision rights nobody defined, strong engineers promoted into management without anyone rethinking the role. The diagnostic shows you which of the three you're dealing with, and for which leaders, so your next investment goes where it will actually work.
Organizations Focused on Developing Their Leaders Outperform Competitors
Organizations Focused on Developing Their Leaders Outperform Competitors
In DDI's 2025 Global Leadership Forecast, a study of more than 10,000 leaders across 2,000 organizations, companies with a strong leadership bench were 2.8 times more likely to outperform their industry peers financially. Only one in five organizations has that bench today. DDI's advice for closing the gap is to assess leaders against real business challenges and aim development at the specific gaps, which is exactly what the diagnostic does.
Our Leadership Performance Diagnostic is built for directors, VPs, and L&D or talent leaders in technology organizations of roughly 200 employees or more who are responsible for how a leadership team performs. It's a good fit if you've already tried internal programs or outside training, the results haven't moved, and you need an answer you can take to your own leadership with confidence.
Your Investment
Your Investment
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$6,500
3–4 Week Engagement
One Deliverable
One Deliverable
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This is a high-touch, tailored, and strategic diagnostic. You get one thing at the end: a customized report that tells you exactly what's happening and how to fix it.
Making the Case Internally If you need approval for this engagement, the business case is written to be shared. It helps to put the cost of the current situation next to the cost of the diagnostic: a delayed initiative, increased turnover, hours spent firefighting each week. At the end of the engagement, you'll know what implementation would involve and what it should return, before you commit to anything further.
WHAT YOU'LL GET
Keys to Success Report
After we dig into your organization, you walk away with a comprehensive leadership performance report that includes:
What's Working The leadership strengths you already have. What's actually functioning well that you should double down on.
Where the Gaps Are An honest assessment of what's broken but fixable.
Root Cause Analysis The actual story behind the symptoms. Why projects slipped. Why goals were missed. Why tension is high. We go underneath the surface.
Prioritized Recommendations Quick wins you can move on immediately, plus long-term structural shifts that create sustained change.
Development Roadmap Clear steps, clear owners, clear success metrics so you know what winning looks like.
Implementation Timeline When things should happen. What happens first. What has to be true before the next phase starts.
Where the Gaps Are An honest assessment of what's broken but fixable.
Root Cause Analysis The actual story behind the symptoms. Why projects slipped. Why goals were missed. Why tension is high. We go underneath the surface.
Prioritized Recommendations Quick wins you can move on immediately, plus long-term structural shifts that create sustained change.
Development Roadmap Clear steps, clear owners, clear success metrics so you know what winning looks like.
Implementation Timeline When things should happen. What happens first. What has to be true before the next phase starts.
✔ You don't guess at solutions based on secondhand reporting. You have primary source data.
✔ You can confidently move forward because you know the real problems behind the symptoms everyone talks about in meetings.
✔ You have a roadmap that didn't come out of a consultant's template. It's custom built for your organization, your structure, your constraints.
✔ You can show your team why change is happening and what success looks like. That alone shifts buy-in.
✔ You know the ROI before you invest in implementation. The report tells you what to expect and how to measure it.
✔ You can confidently move forward because you know the real problems behind the symptoms everyone talks about in meetings.
✔ You have a roadmap that didn't come out of a consultant's template. It's custom built for your organization, your structure, your constraints.
✔ You can show your team why change is happening and what success looks like. That alone shifts buy-in.
✔ You know the ROI before you invest in implementation. The report tells you what to expect and how to measure it.
How It Works
Step 1: Confirm the Scope
A brief conversation to make sure this is the right fit. We confirm scope, timeline, and next steps. No surprises.
Step 2: Deep Dive (3–4 weeks)
Expect about two hours from each participating leader and four from you over the engagement. This includes interviews, group sessions, observation, & document reviews. You'll know we're doing real work.
Step 3: Deliver the Report
A comprehensive written report, delivered with a walkthrough so you understand the findings and can answer questions from your team.
Step 4: You Decide
The diagnostic ends there. If you want implementation support such as team training, leadership coaching, or help rolling out recommendations, that's a separate conversation. This is the diagnosis. What you do with it is your call. The Keys to Success report already includes recommended next steps, so the follow-up conversation starts from those findings and not from a sales pitch.
A brief conversation to make sure this is the right fit. We confirm scope, timeline, and next steps. No surprises.
Step 2: Deep Dive (3–4 weeks)
Expect about two hours from each participating leader and four from you over the engagement. This includes interviews, group sessions, observation, & document reviews. You'll know we're doing real work.
Step 3: Deliver the Report
A comprehensive written report, delivered with a walkthrough so you understand the findings and can answer questions from your team.
Step 4: You Decide
The diagnostic ends there. If you want implementation support such as team training, leadership coaching, or help rolling out recommendations, that's a separate conversation. This is the diagnosis. What you do with it is your call. The Keys to Success report already includes recommended next steps, so the follow-up conversation starts from those findings and not from a sales pitch.
Ready to Get Real Answers?
Ready to Get Real Answers?
25 minutes to confirm fit, discuss scope, and lock in your timeline.
About Kellye Franklin-Nelson
About Kellye Franklin-Nelson
Kellye Franklin-Nelson spent more than 25 years inside Fortune 50 and federal operations, including as Chief of Staff and IT PMO Leader at Boeing and as a consultant to the VA's Electronic Health Record Modernization Integration Office. She has managed multi-billion-dollar budgets and led teams through the kind of constant change that wears leadership teams down. She knows what leadership dysfunction looks like from the inside, and that experience shapes every diagnostic she runs.
Let's Uncover What's Really Holding Your Leadership Team Back
Let's Uncover What's Really Holding Your Leadership Team Back