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THE ALIVE LEADERSHIP ASSESSMENT
Bring something
deeply human
to your coaching.
Help your client rediscover the skills to lead through uncertainty
and create the conditions for others to thrive.
Alive brings human skills and human systems into one leadership
assessment. A distinctive way to begin the work and show what changed.
WHY ALIVE
When knowing
isn’t enough.
Your client may have built a career on knowing the answer.
Now the situation is unfamiliar, the answer isn’t clear, and their team is looking to them. In your conversations, you’re exploring what this moment asks of them.
Alive gives you a research-informed way into that work. Alongside knowledge and analysis, it brings attention to the judgment and relationships that help a leader move through uncertainty.
A fuller range of human intelligence, waiting to find expression.
A CLOSER LOOK / 2 MIN 54 SEC
A more human
way forward.
If you’re exploring what AI means for your clients and your practice, begin here. A short introduction to the human capacities at the heart of Alive.
Explore the sample reportONE LEADER. TWO PERSPECTIVES.
See your client’s leadership
from two perspectives.
Bring their human skills and their team’s working conditions
into the same conversation.
01 / HUMAN SKILLS
The skills your client expresses
Explore how your client sees their leadership alongside feedback from the people who work with them. Where do perspectives meet, and what might a difference open up?
02 / HUMAN SYSTEMS
The conditions their team experiences
See how direct reports experience the team’s working conditions alongside your client’s own view. Explore the practices and expectations your client can influence.
Illustrative profiles from the sample report.
Where might these two perspectives
take your next conversation?
THE HUMAN SKILLS
A fuller range
of human intelligence.
Six human skills across three dimensions give you a shared language for exploring what your client’s work now calls for.
01Reasoning
Work with what is known. Draw on knowledge, examine evidence, and make sense of complex information.
- Know the Facts
- Analyze the Information
02Judgment
Move when the answer is not obvious. Explore what could be possible, then make a choice and own it.
- Explore the Possibilities
- Commit and Own
03Relationship
Meet the person in front of you. Understand others more fully and bring yourself honestly to the interaction.
- See Them Fully
- Show Up Authentically
THE HUMAN SYSTEM
Human skills need
room to come alive.
Your client may welcome new ideas while the team’s working day leaves little room to try them. The ten conditions help you explore that experience together, and identify what your client could change to help others use their human skills.
01Work SpaceWhere work happens+
Form · Function
The physical environment, and how well the spaces, tools, and flexibility fit the work.
02Work DayHow work happens+
Practice · Feedback · Pace
Opportunities to exercise judgment and relationship, learn from results, and work at a sustainable pace.
03Work CultureWhat work reinforces+
Honesty · Incentives · Modeling · Cultivation · Purpose
What people can say, what gets rewarded, what leaders demonstrate, and how people and purpose are developed in everyday work.
THE DEVELOPMENT JOURNEY
See where you begin.
Show what changed.
You bring the relationship, the questions, and an understanding of your client. Alive brings feedback you can explore together, with space to reflect, choose what matters, and return later to see what has moved.
- 01
Make the present visible
Explore self-ratings, others’ feedback, and the experiences behind the scores.
- 02
Choose what matters
Help your client choose a skill to strengthen and a condition to improve, then describe what they want others to experience differently.
- 03
Return to the evidence
Reassess after development to see where scores and perspectives moved and what still needs attention.
Want to begin with your client’s own perspective?
View the Self-Assessment sample
Actual pages from the sample report.
FOR YOUR PRACTICE
Something you can
bring with confidence.
When you bring an assessment into your practice, you put your name behind it. You want to understand its foundations, see what it adds, and feel confident that it will serve the person in front of you.
A framework you can stand behind
Ground your conversations in a clear framework of six human skills and ten working conditions, informed by research into how people think, learn, and respond to their environments.
A distinctive way to open the conversation
When a client asks what leadership needs in the AI era, bring a human perspective: the skills to navigate uncertainty and the conditions that help their team do the same.
Evidence of change
Establish a baseline, return to the same measures after development, and see where scores and perspectives moved. Make progress tangible without reducing the person or the work to a single number.
WHEN YOU EXPLAIN THE WORK
“We’ll establish a clear baseline, choose where to focus, and return to the same measures later to see what changed.”
A clear way to explain the journey to your client or an organizational sponsor. Individual feedback remains confidential and is shared only as agreed with your client.
AN ENDURING FOUNDATION
Ground your practice
in what stays human.
The tools will keep changing. Your client will still have to decide what matters, act without certainty, and meet another person with honesty and care.
AI can offer suggestions. It cannot live those moments for them, take responsibility for their choices, or be the person their team comes to trust.
That is enduring ground for your work. Alive roots your practice in human growth that has to be lived: exercising judgment, deepening relationships, and creating conditions for others to thrive.
A foundation you can keep growing from, as the world keeps changing.
PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION
Experience it.
Learn it.
Bring it to others.
Before you bring Alive to a client, you should know what it feels like from the inside.
Certification begins with your own Alive Leadership 360 and a personal debrief. From there, you learn the framework, practice making sense of the results, and prepare to use Alive with care and confidence in your own work.
WHERE ALIVE BEGINS
The Founding 8
An invitation-only group of eight experienced practitioners will complete the first certification cohort. They will always be recognized as the practitioners who were there at the beginning.
THE NEXT CHAPTER
The First 50
The next fifty people to become Certified Alive Leadership Practitioners will hold a permanent place in the Alive story, with preferred assessment pricing through the end of 2027.
WHAT CERTIFICATION INCLUDES
- 01
Experience
Complete your own Alive Leadership 360 and receive a personal debrief.
- 02
Understand
Learn the research, framework, scoring, and interpretation behind the assessment.
- 03
Practice
Work with results, questions, and debrief conversations before using Alive with a client.
- 04
Bring it forward
Receive practitioner resources, access to the Alive Community, and the confidence to make Alive part of your work.
THE FIRST 50
An early place in the Alive story.
The First 50 rate is designed to make it easier for a small group of thoughtful practitioners to begin using Alive while preserving the depth and quality of the experience.
Certification includes your own Alive Leadership 360, personal debrief, live learning, practice, practitioner resources, and Alive Community access.
Preferred assessment rates for The First 50 apply through December 31, 2027.
Cohorts are intentionally small.
Ask about The First 50THE ALIVE INSTITUTE
Understand the thinking.
Trust what you bring.
You should be able to explain why an assessment belongs in your work. Alive connects assessment practice with James Meaden’s peer-reviewed research on how environments shape attention and cognition. Explore the perspective behind the framework, and bring your questions to a conversation with James.
Explore the research foundation
FOUNDED BY
James Meaden
Industrial/Organizational psychologist
Founder, The Alive Institute
James’s work connects talent assessment with research into how people think, perceive, and respond to the world around them.
Recipient of the 2026 IPAC
Innovation in Assessment Award
THE NEXT CHAPTER
More human.
More possible.
More Alive.
Think of a client you care about. What could become possible if they brought more of their human intelligence into their work, and made room for their team to do the same?
Let’s talk about your practice