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For CEOs, Executive Teams and HR/People Leaders.

Is your leadership strong
enough to hold?

A free, five-minute diagnostic — grounded in SHRM's 2026 workforce research — that scores your retention risk, manager effectiveness, engagement, AI readiness, and culture, then hands you a personalized coaching plan.

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12 questions · 5 leadership dimensions · no email required to see your results

34%

of HR executives say organizational barriers — not talent — are their biggest challenge heading into 2026.

SHRM, via HR Executive
83%

of workers report at least some degree of burnout in 2026 — unchanged from the year before.

2026 workforce data, via HR Stacks
47%

of individual contributors trust senior leaders' communication — versus 80% of directors and above.

SHRM, Navigating AI in the Workplace: 2026
~70%

of the variance in team engagement scores is explained by the manager, not the company.

Gallup, via EvalFlow
The Assessment

Score your organization across five dimensions

Answer honestly — this is a private, in-the-moment read on where your leadership culture actually stands, not where you wish it stood. Every question maps to a documented 2026 workforce risk.

Step 1 of 5 Retention
Retention
Managers
Engagement
AI Readiness
Culture

Retention

Where your best people are voting with their feet.

1. How would you describe voluntary turnover among your top performers in the last 12 months?

2. When exit conversations happen, how often does "my manager" or "senior leadership" come up as a top reason for leaving?

Manager Effectiveness

Managers explain most of the variance in engagement — this is the highest-leverage lever you have.

3. What share of your people managers would you rate as genuinely effective at coaching, developing, and holding their teams accountable?

4. Do new managers receive real leadership training before or shortly after their promotion?

5. How confident are you that your managers hold people accountable with compassion — not fear, avoidance, or micromanagement?

Engagement

Whether people bring their full effort — or just enough to not get noticed.

6. What's the recent trend in your employee engagement or eNPS scores?

7. How would employees describe psychological safety — comfort raising concerns, disagreeing, or admitting mistakes without fear?

AI Readiness

Trust — not tooling — is the real bottleneck to AI adoption.

8. How much do employees at every level trust leadership's communication about AI and its impact on their roles?

9. Have you equipped managers with real training to lead AI-augmented teams and manage adoption anxiety?

Culture, Trust & Burnout

The foundation everything else — retention, managers, engagement, AI adoption — sits on.

10. How would you rate burnout levels across your organization right now?

11. When leadership makes a hard decision, how much do employees trust the reasoning and communication behind it?

12. Which best describes how your organization actually operates day to day?

Please answer every question before continuing.
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Your Results

Your Leadership Pulse

Based on your answers, here's how your organization scores across the five dimensions shaping 2026 workforce risk — and what to work on first.

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Who's behind this

Marcel Schwantes

Marcel is an executive coach, speaker, and author of Humane Leadership: Lead With Radical Love, Be a Kick-Ass Boss. He works with CEOs and executive teams who want strong performance without sacrificing people — replacing command-and-control habits with cultures built on hope, kindness, humility, compassion, trust, accountability, growth, and purpose. He hosts deep conversations with global leadership experts on his podcast and newsletter.

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Research Sources

  1. SHRM organizational-barriers finding, reported in "7 crises that tested HR in 2025 and shaped 2026 strategy," HR Executive — https://hrexecutive.com/7-crises-that-tested-hr-in-2025-and-shaped-2026-strategy/
  2. SHRM, "What Will Work Look Like in 2026?" — job satisfaction and turnover-risk findings — https://www.shrm.org/about/press-room/what-will-work-look-like-in-2026--new-shrm-research-reveals-how-
  3. 2026 burnout prevalence data, aggregated in "2026 HR Statistics," HR Stacks — https://www.hrstacks.com/top-hr-statistics/
  4. SHRM, "Navigating AI in the Workplace: 2026" — leadership trust gap on AI communication — https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/research/navigating-ai-in-the-workplace
  5. Gallup manager-engagement variance data, cited in "58 Manager Effectiveness Statistics for 2026," EvalFlow — https://www.evalflow.com/blog/manager-effectiveness-statistics
  6. SHRM, "Poor Leadership, Heavy Workloads Top Contributors for Workplace Burnout" — https://www.shrm.org/about/press-room/poor-leadership--heavy-workloads-top-contributors-for-workplace-
  7. SHRM, "2026 CHRO Priorities and Perspectives" — leadership development as the top CHRO priority — https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/research/2026-chro-priorities-and-perspectives