The Senior Leader Assessment

The Senior Leader Assessment is for senior leaders navigating high responsibility and limited room to manoeuvre.

You’re rarely short on insight. What’s harder for senior leaders is getting a clean read when you’re inside the situation and accountable for the consequences.

This helps you step outside the noise long enough to think clearly about where you are and what moves are actually available.

What you'll get

Answer a short set of questions. Receive one written perspective tailored to your situation.

It includes:

  • A clear articulation of the situation you’re in
  • Why it tends to play out the way it does
  • Practical moves that fit the constraints you’re operating within

Built from independent research with senior leaders managing pressure, accountability and constraint in Melbourne and beyond.

The situations this assessment covers

Senior leaders tend to seek a situational read when the work has changed but the expectations haven’t. The questions and outputs in this senior leader assessment reflect a set of situations that tend to recur across roles, sectors, and systems.

These include:

  • Leading with limited authority or room to manoeuvre
  • Being accountable for outcomes without the resources you need
  • Managing pressure from boards or executives
  • Navigating isolation at the top
  • Stepping into a role without adequate handover
  • Being constrained by workforce and capability gaps.

Each output focuses on one of these situations, not on you as a person. The aim is to make sense of what you’re dealing with, why it plays out that way and what kinds of moves are typically available within those constraints.

The assessment doesn’t assume the situation is a problem to be fixed. It treats it as a reality to be understood in the first instance, so you can think it through and decide what action makes sense from here.

What happens after

Some people use this to clarify their thinking. Others use it as a starting point for a conversation about executive coaching support.

If you want to talk through what this means for your role, get in touch.

Dr Michelle Pizer | Executive Coach and Organisational Psychologist