THE ELI ASSESSMENT — FILLER COPY!!!!
A reference page for anyone who wants to understand the tool before committing to a session.
WHAT IT IS
The Energy Leadership Index, or ELI, is a structured assessment that maps how you currently approach decisions and respond to pressure. It was developed by the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching and is used by practitioners working with leaders in complex, high-stakes environments.
It is not a personality test. It does not place you in a fixed category or type. What it produces is a profile of your current decision-making patterns, specifically how you are showing up when the stakes are real and the margin for error is small.
WHAT IT MEASURES
The ELI identifies two things that are directly relevant to how leaders make decisions under pressure.
The first is your energetic profile. Not energy in a motivational sense. In a behavioral one. The assessment identifies the attitudes and assumptions you are bringing into high-pressure situations, the ones that are shaping your decisions before you are consciously aware of them.
The second is how that profile shifts when you are under stress. Most leaders make decisions differently when they are under pressure than when they are not. The ELI makes that shift visible and measurable. For a clinical manager navigating staffing gaps, schedule conflicts, and accountability conversations simultaneously, that shift is often where the most consequential decisions are being made.
WHY IT IS USEFUL FOR ANALYTICAL LEADERS
The ELI produces a quantified profile, not a qualitative description. Your results are expressed as a numerical index across seven distinct levels of response, each corresponding to a different set of assumptions about how situations get handled.
That specificity matters for two reasons. It gives you something concrete to examine rather than a general sense of your leadership style. And it gives the engagement that follows a measurable baseline to work from rather than a subjective starting point.
For leaders who are skeptical of assessment tools, the ELI tends to land differently than most. The results are behavioral, not dispositional. They describe how you are currently operating, not who you fundamentally are. That distinction matters when the goal is to change something specific rather than understand yourself in general.
HOW IT IS USED IN THIS PRACTICE
The ELI is the foundation of the Decision Support Partnership. The assessment and readout session happens first. The results anchor the full three-month engagement. Every subsequent session builds from what the assessment surfaced rather than starting fresh each time.
This is not a standalone exercise in self-awareness. It is a diagnostic tool that makes the work that follows more precise.
The assessment is also available as a standalone session for leaders who want the profile and readout without committing to the full engagement. There is standalone value in knowing your decision-making baseline, independent of what comes next.
WHAT THE READOUT LOOKS LIKE
The readout is a 75-minute session. You receive your full results and work through them in real time. The session is structured and specific. It is not a debrief of a report. It is a working conversation about what the results mean for the decisions you are actually carrying.
By the end of the session you have a clear picture of how you are currently approaching decisions under pressure, where that serves you, and where it is costing you.
THE OPTIONS
ELI Assessment and Readout. 75 minutes. $250. Your full profile and a working readout session. Standalone value. Natural entry point to the Decision Support Partnership.
ELI Assessment plus 360 Feedback and Readout. 75 minutes. $325. The assessment plus external peer feedback. A complete picture: how you are making decisions and how the people around you experience that. The 360 adds a layer of organizational reality to the individual profile.
Both are available as standalone sessions or as the entry point to the full Decision Support Partnership.
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A NOTE ON CONFIDENTIALITY
Assessment results are completely confidential. Nothing is shared with your organization. If the ELI is administered as part of an organizational engagement, individual results remain private. Only aggregate themes, patterns and categories with no attribution, are reported.
SECTION: BRIDGE TO DECISION SUPPORT PARTNERSHIP
The assessment is where the Decision Support Partnership begins. If you are considering the full engagement, the readout session is the first step.
Link: Learn more about the Decision Support Partnership