The first ninety days decide most senior transitions — and the biggest risk is arriving as who you were. Seven statements, about three minutes.
Answer for your culture as it actually is, not as it’s described. The questions look at whether the conversations your culture most needs are genuinely possible here.
The Executive Transition Diagnostic is a free new-role transition assessment for senior leaders from Impact Thinking — 7 statements, about three minutes, built directly on the frameworks published on our research desk. It reads the seven signals that decide senior transitions in the first ninety days — including the most expensive pattern: importing the old role into the new seat.
It’s built for newly appointed executives, promoted leaders, and the HR teams onboarding them. The free read returns your band and profile immediately, with an interpretation of what the result means and the one thing it suggests you can’t currently see. It pairs with Being a Leader I — Who You’re Being, the programme built on the same ground.
It reads the seven signals that decide senior transitions in the first ninety days — including the most expensive pattern: importing the old role into the new seat. It reads 7 statements and returns a banded profile with a deep interpretation.
About three minutes — 7 statements on a five-point scale. The read is free and immediate: your band, your profile, and the blind spot it points to. A full personalised report, benchmarked against other leaders, is £95; a whole-team report is £495.
It’s a structured self-assessment built on the frameworks published on our research desk — designed for development, team performance and measurement, not for hiring decisions. For selection contexts we run structured engagements where instruments inform, and never replace, human judgment.
Rarely from lack of ability — usually from an excess of the old success. Appointment rewards a proven way of operating just as the new seat requires a different one. The diagnostic reads whether you’re arriving as the role requires, or as who you were.