For Founders and CEOs

How are you really doing as a CEO?

Find out where your leadership habits are quietly costing you and your team time, trust, and performance.

No email required to see your results. 18 questions, 12 domains.

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The hardest thing to see clearly is your own leadership.

Most CEO self-assessments ask you to rate yourself from one to five. People answer those the way they wish they behaved, not the way they actually do. So this one does not ask you to rate anything.

Instead you get eighteen concrete situations and four real responses to each. No option is the obvious right answer. The result is a more honest signal about the patterns you have actually built — and where they are starting to cost you.

How It Works

Answer 18 Scenarios

Real situations, not rating scales. You pick the behavior closest to what you actually do. About eight minutes.

See Your Pattern

A score across twelve leadership domains, with your lowest one or two named specifically.

Get Your Next Step

Depending on what shows up, either a coaching conversation or outside data from your team.

What We Measure

Twelve domains spanning the full scope of the role — from how you run the company to how you manage yourself.

  • Operational Excellence
  • Time Management
  • Energy Management
  • Empathy
  • Vision
  • Delegation
  • Crisis Management
  • Giving Feedback
  • Receiving Feedback
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Board Engagement
  • Stakeholder Connection

Who built this

Developed by some of the world's top CEO coaches.

CEO Pulse comes out of Velocity Coaching's work with the chief executives of dozens of the fastest-growing companies of the last decade. The eighteen scenarios are the situations that came up again and again in those rooms.

Companies whose leaders we've coached

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Clarity is cheaper before the cost shows up.

The best CEOs check their own patterns before their team, their board, or their numbers force them to.