How do you lead when things break?

Change & Adversity

How you lead when it gets hard: communicating in a crisis, telling the truth early, absorbing loss, and helping people find their footing again.

The assessment presents real workplace situations, asks you to reflect on how you'd respond, and scores how you lead.

Once you've finished, you'll receive a personalized leadership review with practical insights into your strengths, opportunities for growth, and recommended essays to help you become a more effective leader.

What to expect
Items18, shuffled every run
TimeAbout 8 minutes
ScoreLeadership Aura, live as you answer
ReportStrengths, growth, and essays to read next
What it measures

See where you stand on the six skills inside Change & Adversity.

Dual-Register Crisis Communication

In a crisis, people need the truth and a way through it. This measures whether you deliver both at once: honest about how bad things are, grounded about how you will navigate them, and more present than usual, not less.

Early Change Communication

Silence during change gets filled by rumor. This measures whether you communicate before you feel ready, replacing the vacuum with facts and honest boundaries on what is still unknown.

Loss-and-Identity Attentiveness

Resistance to change is information. This measures whether you treat it as an accurate reading of what the change costs people, their routines, their identity, their bandwidth, instead of prescribing more messaging.

Resilience as Practice

Resilience is a practice, not a temperament. This measures whether you keep the habits that rebuild you: processing what happened, finding the meaning in it, recovering on purpose, and not doing it alone.

Accurate Reframing

A setback tells a story, and the first draft is usually too dark. This measures whether you check that story, asking if the damage is really permanent, really everywhere, and really all on you, and whether you do it out loud for your team without faking cheer.

Leading Without Answers

Sometimes the answer does not exist yet. This measures whether you say so precisely and commit to a visible process and timeline, instead of performing a certainty that shuts down the people who could help you find it.