Beyond Personality Tests & Leadership Profiles
Personality inventories, leadership profiles, and strengths assessments can provide useful language for understanding preferences, tendencies, and interpersonal style. But they don't necessarily tell you how your brain handles the cognitive demands of your work.
A Cognitive & Leadership Assessment goes deeper by examining aspects of cognitive and executive functioning using standardized psychological measures. Depending on your goals, this may include how you reason through complex information, hold and manipulate information in mind, sustain and shift attention, work efficiently under different demands, organize and prioritize, solve problems, and adapt when circumstances change.
For high-performing professionals, the most useful findings are often not simply areas of relative strength or weakness, but the relationships between them. A particular cognitive strength may help you compensate for another area that requires more effort. A strategy that contributed to success earlier in your career may become less effective as your responsibilities expand. Or the way you naturally process information may work exceptionally well in some leadership situations while creating friction in others.
The purpose isn't to identify an ideal cognitive profile for leadership. There isn't one. It's to understand your individual profile well enough to make more intentional decisions about how you structure your work, approach complex demands, communicate, delegate, and lead.
The question shifts from “What kind of leader am I?” to “How do I actually operate—and what can I do with that information?”
Fees & Practical Information
Individualized Assessment — $250 per hour
Cognitive & Leadership Assessments are individualized based on your goals and the professional time anticipated to complete the assessment. This may include consultation and background review, standardized testing, scoring and interpretation, integration of findings, feedback and strategy discussion, and preparation of your individualized written summary.
Estimated Cost
The proposed scope of the assessment and estimated total cost will be discussed with you before the assessment begins. Because the assessment is tailored to your goals, the amount and type of testing may vary.
In-Person Assessment in Edina, Minnesota
Cognitive & Leadership Assessments are conducted in person in Edina, Minnesota due to the standardized psychological measures used. Some portions of the process, such as initial consultation or follow-up discussion, may be completed virtually when appropriate.
Payment
A Cognitive & Leadership Assessment is a private-pay professional service. It is not intended for diagnosis or treatment and is not submitted to health insurance for reimbursement.