Executive Leadership Assessment
Assessing Leadership Capability
Strong leadership decisions depend on a clear understanding of the capability you have, the capability you need and where the gaps lie. Executive leadership assessment provides an objective view of individuals and teams, helping organisations make better decisions about selection, succession, development and leadership effectiveness.
Redgrave works with Boards, investors and senior leadership teams at different points in the leadership lifecycle. From assessing candidates for critical appointments and identifying future successors, to evaluating existing leadership teams and supporting individual development, we provide evidence-based insight into capability, potential, leadership style and readiness for what comes next.
Our assessments combine robust methodology with senior commercial perspective, interpreting the findings in the context of the organisation, its strategy and the challenges its leaders need to address.
Why boards choose Redgrave for executive leadership assessment
Effective leadership assessment starts with understanding what the organisation needs from its leaders. We consider the role, business strategy, culture, ownership and challenges ahead, using these to determine the capabilities that matter most and interpret assessment findings in the right context.
Here is what sets Redgrave apart:
1. Assessment by people with operational credibility
Our assessors bring first-hand experience of senior leadership and the realities of operating in complex organisations. That commercial perspective helps them explore how an individual makes decisions, exercises judgement and leads in practice, adding depth to the evidence generated through the assessment process.
2. Context-specific, not generic
Every executive leadership assessment we conduct is calibrated to the specific role, the business context, and the commercial challenge. We assess capability against what the business actually needs, not against a standardised framework that produces the same outputs regardless of what you are trying to understand.
3. Clear insight for better decisions
Our assessments provide a clear, actionable view of an individual’s capabilities, strengths, potential risks and development priorities. Whether informing an appointment, succession decision or development plan, we turn the findings into practical insight that helps clients decide what to do next.
Where executive assessment can help
Our leadership assessment specialists and chartered business psychologists employ a proprietary leadership model and an evidence-backed methodology. Combining rigorous research, market-leading psychometrics, and commercial insight, we offer our clients support in three areas:
Elevating Candidate Selection
Assessing final round candidates to ensure not just aptitude but also attitude, behaviour, and leadership capability, and helping you make informed selections.
Employee Development
Evaluation of your existing talent pool and the creation of tailored development plans to help you nurture your leader’s potential.
Leadership Team Assessment
Comprehensive evaluation, including due diligence for private equity investors both pre- and post-deal, ensuring that your leadership team’s capabilities are in harmony with your strategic goals.
If your assessment requirement doesn’t fit neatly into one of the above, speak to us. We will tell you directly whether and how we can help.
Our three-tiered assessment model
We offer three distinct assessment products, each designed to address specific leadership levels and developmental stages:
DRIVER Elite combines the expertise of our leadership Consultants and Search Partners with validated psychometrics and rigorous referencing to build a complete picture of leadership capability.
By identifying strengths, risks, and gaps in leadership effectiveness, DRIVER Elite helps organisations reduce hiring risk, strengthen leadership teams, and accelerate performance where it matters most.
DRIVER Executive delivers focused, evidence-based analysis of how a leader thinks, operates, and makes decisions.
Designed for targeted, senior-level decision-making, it gives organisations the clarity to hire with confidence, invest development where it will have the greatest impact, and accelerate leadership effectiveness.
DRIVER Insight provides a fast, evidence-based view of a leader’s underlying mindset, behaviour, and potential for impact.
Designed for early-stage evaluation, it helps organisations quickly identify leadership potential, validate instinct, and decide where deeper assessment or investment is warranted.
Our Clients
We partner with organisations across the UK, Europe and the United States to provide independent assessment of senior leaders and leadership teams. Our clients include listed, PE-backed and privately owned businesses, using assessment to inform appointments, succession, development, leadership capability and investment decisions.
Leadership assessment for boards, investors and leadership teams
- Private equity and investors
Executive leadership assessment is particularly valuable in a PE context, where the cost of a leadership mistake is amplified by the deal timeline and the value creation imperative. We support PE sponsors and Operating Partners with pre-acquisition management team evaluation, post-acquisition leadership assessment and ongoing capability review across portfolio companies. Our assessments give investors an objective view of whether the management team can execute the value creation plan.
- Boards and listed companies
For listed companies and large private organisations, executive leadership assessment supports board succession decisions, CEO and C-suite appointments and the annual board effectiveness process. We provide an independent, objective view of leadership capability that complements the board’s own knowledge of the individuals involved.
- Family businesses and private companies
Family businesses face specific leadership challenges: the transition from founder-led to professionally managed, the assessment of family members for senior leadership roles, and succession planning that must be handled with both rigour and sensitivity. We have experience of navigating each of these contexts and conduct assessments that are genuinely useful, not just diplomatically worded.
- During or following M&A
Post-merger integration almost always requires a view of leadership capability across the combined entity. Our executive assessments help organisations make faster, better decisions about which leaders to retain, develop or replace, reducing the uncertainty and risk of key appointments going wrong during a critical period.
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Service Type: Executive Assessments