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Leadership Diagnostics
Leadership assessment tools that measure leadership alignment, communication and effectiveness to enhance organisational performance.
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Leadership Diagnostics

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At Culture Consultancy, we have a large team of experienced culture consultants and leadership development experts. The team use a range of leadership assessment tools or diagnostics to support leaders in navigating complex business environments. In today’s rapidly evolving world, where AI, market uncertainty, and shifting workplace expectations add pressure, leaders must stay aligned, communicate clearly, and drive performance effectively.

Our Leadership Diagnostics approach provides a structured, evidence-based assessment to evaluate:

  • Strategic alignment – How well leadership is aligned with business goals and culture
  • Collaboration and trust – The quality of relationships, decision-making, and accountability
  • Clarity and consistency – Whether leadership messaging is clear and unified across teams
  • Decision-making agility – Whether leaders have access to the right data for fast, effective choices
  • Leadership skills for the future – Identifying capability gaps to lead in a modern business landscape

Following the diagnosis, we provide tailored recommendations to enhance leadership effectiveness, with the option to develop a bespoke leadership development programme.

Outcomes

Organisations using Leadership Diagnostics experience:

  • Stronger executive alignment – reducing mixed messages and leadership silos
  • Greater clarity across teams – ensuring employees understand strategic priorities
  • Increased trust and engagement – boosting morale, motivation and discretionary effort
  • Faster, more informed decision-making – improving agility and responsiveness
  • A more cohesive, high-performing culture – with leadership acting as a united driving force

For example, a UK-based technology firm leveraged our diagnostics to uncover leadership misalignment. By implementing targeted leadership coaching, they saw a 20% increase in employee engagement scores and a measurable improvement in decision-making efficiency.

If you suspect misalignment, mixed messaging, or leadership siloes are holding your business back, Leadership Diagnostics provides the insight and strategy needed to transform executive performance.

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Leadership Diagnostics is a structured, evidence-based approach that evaluates how aligned, agile and effective your leadership team really is. We assess the extent to which your leadership team is united on decision-making criteria, ensuring your business strategy is not just defined, but executed consistently through leadership behaviours and messaging. In environments shaped by AI, economic volatility, and shifting expectations, it helps organisations detect misalignment, messaging gaps, and cultural inconsistencies that limit performance.
The process identifies blindspots including conflicting priorities, unclear messaging, weak trust dynamics and capability gaps. It’s especially useful in fast-moving or high-growth environments where leadership siloes, rapid scaling, or misaligned KPIs can undermine performance. By highlighting breakdowns in clarity, data access, or decision authority, the process enables more responsive, transparent choices. We often integrate this with coaching or leadership development programmes to build collective decision-making ability.
Absolutely. We assess existing capabilities against future organisational needs – such as digital fluency, emotional intelligence, or inclusive leadership. This helps define leadership capability frameworks and succession pipelines aligned with long term goals.
Ideal moments include leadership transitions, post-merger integration, strategic pivots, or when signals like disengagement, missed KPIs, or cultural friction emerge. The earlier misalignment is diagnosed, the faster it can be addressed – and the greater the ROI on leadership development. Leadership Diagnostics also compliments other transformation or culture initiatives – it’s a critical accelerator, helping to clarify leadership’s role, identify barriers, and build trust in the change process.
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We were so impressed with CC. They have taken something very complicated and made it simple. We’re thrilled about the new culture they helped us create, and the way that they’ve supported and challenged us throughout has pushed us on even further than we could have anticipated.
Greg IngletonHR Director at Pepper Money
Their insight formed the highly compelling backbone to everything that came in defining and embedding our Mission, Vision and Values. They provided real energy to the project and delivered a full end-to-end service.
Jim BrownGroup Head of Marketing at One Savings Bank
Culture Consultancy made a challenging project simple and effective for us, translating multiple thoughts and ideas into clear and concise language that matched our style.
Judith LambVice President, Global HR at CloudPay
Culture Consultancy clearly focused pragmatic and flexible project delivery.
Alison O’ConnerGroup HR Director at Arriva Group
Culture Consultancy demonstrated a very pragmatic and flexible, yet commercial approach to the project, in a style that works really well for people at all levels within our business.
Neil HudgellManaging Director at Hudgell
Culture Consultancy made a great contribution to the development of a values-based culture.
Rod FindlayStrategy Director at England Golf
Culture Consultancy were able to take a very ambiguous and high level brief and develop a detailed and thorough solution.
Richard WazaczCOO Europe at Prudential UK
Thanks to Culture Consultancy’s help the attitude of our staff has become refreshingly open and positive with a growing recognition of their important role in our business.
Robert WebbChairman at John Hogg
Culture Consultancy – A pleasure to work with.
Fidelma HarrisHead of Individual Sales at AXA PPP healthcare
The way Culture Consultancy supported us and structured their approach, the way they did things from the interviews to workshops, and the way they challenged our thinking and stretched us, has been really good.
Jon WoodallManaging Director at Space 48
I was impressed with their determination and their methods of how they could actually get the work that they did during research, to flow into workstreams that we could implement in the business to actually make sure that we lived and experienced the purpose and the values that we unearthed.
Graham Jerome-BallDirector of Global Branding Corporate Communications at Informa

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