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Executive Assessment

Improve leaders’ self-awareness while gaining an accurate predictive description of their capabilities.
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Executive Assessment

Improve leaders’ self-awareness while gaining an accurate predictive description of their capabilities.

Assessing Senior Executives For Selection and Development

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Assessing senior executives’ readiness to undertake new or increased responsibilities requires a combination of knowledge and judgment. Understanding their strengths, capabilities, gaps, and areas of growth — and how that aligns with the job to be done — is invaluable to putting leaders on the right path for success for themselves and the organization.

Our assessment approach varies depending on the needs of the individual and organization. We use a variety of tools, including multi-rater feedback, personality assessments, and cognitive tests, to identify the technical skills, business-focused experience, people-focused abilities, and personal awareness to lead the organization.
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360° and Performance Feedback

We collect feedback from executives’ colleagues, including those they report to as well as those they lead.

Cognitive Tests and Style Evaluations

Executives participate in tests and evaluations deemed most valuable for their success today as well as future development.

 Expert Interpretation

Organizational psychologists and HR leaders interpret results, focusing on executives’ strengths and challenges.

Customized Development Plans

We provide specific, concrete ideas for how to build leadership skills based on assessment results.

CASE STUDY: Identifying Leadership Strengths and Development Opportunities

A prominent healthcare organization partnered with us to conduct a comprehensive, developmentally focused assessment of 25 senior leaders. The objective was to identify each leader’s core strengths and development opportunities while evaluating the potential organizational impact of these findings.

 

Our approach centered on establishing a dedicated Leadership Assessment Center, utilizing three distinct assessment methodologies to ensure comprehensive data collection. In addition to formal testing instruments, we conducted in-depth structured interviews with each participant to capture their professional background, leadership experiences, and key activities. These interviews also allowed us to assess specific competencies that standardized testing might not fully capture.

 

The assessment process yielded detailed individual profiles highlighting identified strengths, targeted development opportunities, and potential risk factors for each leader. Beyond individual results, we provided strategic recommendations designed to help the organization maximize both current leadership capabilities and future potential, creating value for the executives and the broader company.

  • Comprehensive Leadership Profiles: Delivered detailed assessments for 25 leaders using multiple methodologies, providing a complete picture of individual strengths and development needs
  • Strategic Development Roadmap: Created targeted recommendations that aligned individual growth opportunities with organizational objectives and succession planning needs
  • Risk Mitigation Framework: Identified potential leadership risk factors and provided actionable strategies to address vulnerabilities before they impact organizational performance
  • Enhanced Leadership Pipeline: Established a foundation for evidence-based leadership development initiatives that support both individual career advancement and company-wide leadership effectiveness

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When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

The best athletes have coaches. As a CEO, I work with an executive coach from Berman Leadership to help me stay focused, help my team stay focused, help me communicate better, and help my team communicate better. I appreciate being able to bounce ideas off of them when I’m seeing issues from personnel to strategy. Their psychology based approach combined with business experience helps me navigate new problems and gives me great guidance for how to get from point A to point B when you don’t have a map.

CEO,
FinTech Software

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When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

Berman Leadership coaches make sure our leaders have a safe place to work through issues. Their coaches are highly intelligent, wonderful partners, who quickly get into a rhythm. I appreciate their flexible style and willingness to meet us in a place that works well for the organization.

Senior VP Human Resources,
Private Investment Firm

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When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

The coaches at Berman Leadership start with intelligence. I appreciate their ability to rapidly diagnose, then offer sets of solutions to choose from that are situationally appropriate for my organization. Their psychological insight and business experience across industry and across different levels of the organization is invaluable.

SVP Global Clinical R&D,
Pharmaceutical

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When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

Berman Leadership coaches are good at being able to strategize, manage a situation, and provide really good solutions. I appreciate their flexibility and the thoughtful, creative way that they bring insight into their advice. They find the right balance between what works for the individual and what the firm needs, and then marry them together.

Managing Director of HR,
Global Investment Bank

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When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

I trust the team at Berman Leadership to coach consistently with the organizational culture and business climate, and contextually with deep appreciation for the coache’s environmental challenges. Their incredibly deep approach, rooted in psychology, enables them to navigate incredibly complex and sensitive situations with our most senior folks.

Chief Talent Officer,
Vault50 Law Firm

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When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

I trust Berman Leadership to operate at the highest level. Their process starts off with clear goals and focuses on what we are trying to achieve from a business perspective. I appreciate their balance between business focus and a strong research mindset.

Chief Talent Officer,
Pharmaceutical Manufacturer

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When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

Every engagement I source, I look at the executive, the personality, the leadership, and the coach’s style, cadence, and approach to make sure they’re going to be the best fit. If I have a very senior executive in a critical, important role, I call on Berman Leadership for the high stakes assignment because the individual and the outcome are so important. I trust them to provide impact and seamlessly support cultural assimilation with their executive onboarding work because they understand our company so well.

VP HR,
Financial Services

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