Assessment Lab
Thriving Culture LLC

Name the problem. See the pattern behind it.

Assessments for leaders and executives, in any sector. Choose the situation closest to yours. The result comes back on screen and by email, with the reasoning behind it.

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One combined report on the whole group, from four people up. Nobody sees who answered what.

Group reports

Launch offer: 25 percent off every code through February 1, 2027.

AI suite

Forty assessments built for leading in the AI era

Who can stop an AI system, and does the top team describe AI the same way? These assessments ask what boards and executives now have to answer, and every report shows the reasoning behind its reading.

Governance and oversight

Who decides, and who can stop a system.

HR and people

AI across the employee lifecycle, from hiring to exit.

Business

AI where it touches revenue and cost.

Nonprofit

AI and the trust of donors and the people served.

Public sector

Readiness for AI in public-facing work.

Find your path

Answer two or three questions and get a route through the tools

There are sixty-two assessments here. Nobody needs all of them. Tell us who this is for and what you need, and you'll get a short route in four stages: a baseline first, then a deeper look where it matters, then a comparison of views, then a plan you act on and retake.

Who is this for?
What do you need?

Choose an answer in each row to see your route.

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Start with the problem you have

Most leaders arrive with a symptom, not a tool name. Pick the one closest to yours and open the tools that speak to it.

Not sure which fits? Describe the problem in the request form below and we will suggest two or three.

All assessments

Sixty-two assessments, from a first baseline to a deep dive

Each takes about four to eight minutes. Access is by code, so a client, cohort or program can be given exactly the assessments it needs. The ones marked Your View ask one person about a team, a board or an organization. Filter by problem, or open any tool for who it is for and what the report covers.

$59 per code

Cross-Cultural Leadership Competence

Six capacities for leading across cultures, with a check on whether pressure or low engagement limits the rest.

About 8 min · 30 items
$59 per code

Executive Leadership Self-Assessment

How often observable leadership patterns show up, from strategic judgment to culture and ethics. It reads patterns, not intent.

About 8 min · 30 items
$59 per code

Leadership Pressure Profile

Compares how you work across differences in ordinary conditions with how you work under high pressure.

About 6 min · 24 items
$59 per code

Conflict Style Profile

Five ways of handling disagreement, and which you reach for by habit.

About 6 min · 25 items
$59 per code

Manager-to-Executive Shift (Your View)

Whether your week looks like executive work or senior management work, across five areas where good managers often stall at the top.

About 6 min · 25 items
$79 per code

Culture Change Readiness

Whether the conditions for a change effort are in place before it starts.

About 6 min · 25 items
$79 per code

Founder Dependence (Your View)

How much the business depends on one founder or owner-leader, and whether it could grow, be sold or survive an absence.

About 6 min · 25 items
$79 per code

AI Adoption Readiness (Your View)

How ready the organization is to adopt AI in ways that stick. Five areas, and none of them is the technology.

About 6 min · 25 items
$79 per code

HR Function Maturity (Executive View)

How well the HR function is built for the size of the organization, and where under-building shows up in turnover and risk.

About 6 min · 25 items
$79 per code

Pace Conflict (Your View)

Whether the pace of work leaves room to learn, absorb change and keep new people.

About 6 min · 25 items
$79 per code

Why Isn't It Getting Done? (Your View)

Diagnoses one stalled goal. It sorts the cause into clarity, know-how, motivation or organizational conditions, since each needs a different fix.

About 6 min · 24 items
$29 per code

Entrepreneurial Skills

Eight skills scored 0 to 100, with the strongest and the thinnest named.

About 5 min · 24 items
$29 per code

Strengths Profile

Your top five of twelve strengths, and how they combine.

About 5 min · 24 items
$29 per code

DISC Style

Behavior and communication preferences, with notes on working with other styles.

About 4 min · 20 items
$29 per code

Enneagram Finder

Nine types and the core motive behind each.

About 6 min · 27 items
$29 per code

Type Preferences

A four-letter preference profile in the Jungian tradition.

About 5 min · 24 items
$79 per code

Learn and Develop (Your View)

Is learning keeping pace with AI? That includes the entry-level pipeline and the new-hire ramp.

About 6 min · 25 items
$79 per code

AI for Funders (Your View)

How do funders use AI in grantmaking and how do they treat applicants' AI use?

About 6 min · 25 items
$29 per code

AI Judgment Calibration

Do you trust AI output as much as it has earned?

About 6 min · 25 items · Individual only
$29 per code

AI Decision Habits

How do you decide with AI: delegate, collaborate, verify or override?

About 6 min · 25 items · Individual only
$59 per code

Leading Through AI Change

What does your team see you do while AI changes their work?

About 6 min · 25 items · Individual only
$29 per code

Solo AI Leverage and Headroom

Which parts of your one-person business does AI already carry and where is the biggest unused room?

About 6 min · 25 items · Individual only
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What you get

The report, before you buy a code

Every assessment returns a reading on screen when you finish and a designed report by email. Strongest and lowest areas are named, each area gets a plain reading, and the level-type tools add a first place to focus.

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  • The sample uses the Manager-to-Executive Shift tool with invented answers.
  • It is the same report the engine builds for a real taker, so the format is exact.
  • Reports go to the person who took the assessment, with a copy to Dr. Otaola.
How it works

From code to report in one sitting

  1. Get a codeCodes are issued for a person, a cohort or a program, and can be limited to chosen assessments.
  2. AnswerOne question at a time. Six choices from strongly disagree to strongly agree.
  3. Read your resultThe reading appears on screen as soon as you finish, with the reasoning behind it.
  4. Get the reportA designed report arrives at the email address you entered.
About

Who builds these

Dr. Pablo Otaola

Dr. Pablo Otaola is an organizational diagnostician and executive advisor. He is the founder of Thriving Culture LLC and of OrgLayer, an organizational intelligence platform that brings AI to leadership and culture work.

He holds an Ed.D. in Organizational Change and Leadership from the USC Rossier School of Education. His dissertation, A Thriving Culture of Belonging, examined organizational cultural intelligence and retention in a multi-site technology organization, and the research instrument behind it was validated on more than a thousand respondents.

Before consulting full time he led Young Life's Denver Metro operation with executive accountability for strategy, fundraising, board governance and talent, while directing the organization's global cross-cultural work. He later served as a Principal at The Raben Group. Since 2010 he has advised CEOs, boards and leadership teams in public-sector, nonprofit, technology, healthcare and association settings, including a competitively awarded engagement with the City of Loveland, Colorado.

Diagnosis firstFind the actual problem before choosing a fix. Each assessment starts from what is happening in your organization, not from what is assumed.
Strategy nextTurn what you learn into a plan that fits your people, your pace and your mission.
Behavior lastCulture shifts when leaders change what they do. Every report ends with actions to try, not just scores.
Method and limits

How the assessments work

What they are

  • Original items written for this lab, scored by fixed rules.
  • Self-reports. They show how you describe your own behavior at this moment.
  • Saved with your submission so your report can be delivered.

How to use your result

  • Open a conversation with your team, your coach or your board.
  • Choose one or two behaviors to work on this quarter.
  • Retake it later and see what has moved.

Your data. We store your name, email, answers and scores so your result and report can be delivered. Read the privacy notice and the terms.

Advisory

When a result needs a person beside it

Assessments start the conversation. Thriving Culture LLC works with executives and organizations on what to do with what the reading shows.

  • Debrief sessions. A guided conversation on an individual or cohort result.
  • Leadership development programs. Cohorts built around the assessments above.
  • Organizational assessment engagements. A scoped review of culture, leadership capacity and governance, with findings and a plan.

The same tools can support a program you already run.

  • Pre and post readings for a leadership cohort
  • An intake step before coaching begins
  • A shared vocabulary for a leadership team
Talk through your use
Group reports

See how a whole team answers

Everyone on the team takes the same assessment with the same group code. The Lab combines their answers into one report on the team as a whole. You see the pattern. You never see who answered what.

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Launch offer: 25 percent off every seat through February 1, 2027. The group report fee stays at $149.

How it works

  1. Choose the tool and the group sizePick one assessment and name the number of people. A group needs at least 4. One group code covers one assessment.
  2. Pay by cardThe group code and your receipt reach your inbox within the minute. No account is needed.
  3. Send the code to your teamEach person reads a short group agreement, ticks it and takes the assessment. Each person also gets a private individual report. You do not see it.
  4. Receive the group reportA private link arrives by email once every seat has finished. If some have not, it arrives when the code ends after 90 days, provided at least 4 have finished.

What you receive

The group report is a hosted page of about fourteen pages. It covers each area in depth, where members agree and where they differ, a guide for the team conversation and a 90-day plan. The email gives you the short version and the link. To keep a copy, open the page and choose Save as PDF.

  • You receive group results only. The report carries no names and no individual answers.
  • On Type Preferences, Enneagram Finder, DISC Style, Strengths Profile, Entrepreneurial Skills, Conflict Style Profile, Leadership Pressure Profile, a group of 6 or fewer sees ranges (none, a few, some, about half or more, most) instead of exact counts. An exact count in a small team can point at one person.
  • Group results describe a team. Please do not use them for hiring, firing, promotion or pay decisions about any person.

Twenty of the 22 assessments have a group version

Manager-to-Executive Shift and the Detectability Index are individual only, because each one reads a single person's view of their own position.

Foundations

$29 a seat

Type Preferences, Enneagram Finder, DISC Style, Strengths Profile, Entrepreneurial Skills.

Leadership and culture

$59 a seat

Cross-Cultural Leadership Competence, Executive Leadership Self-Assessment, Leadership Pressure Profile, Conflict Style Profile, Team Psychological Safety (Your View), Belonging at Work (Your View).

Organization and governance

$79 a seat

Culture Change Readiness, Board and Governance Effectiveness (Your View), Succession Readiness (Your View), Founder Dependence (Your View), AI Adoption Readiness (Your View), Operating Knowledge and Process Maturity (Your View), HR Function Maturity (Executive View), Pace Conflict (Your View), Why Isn't It Getting Done? (Your View).

What it costs

You pay the seat price for each person, plus $149 for the group report. The fee is the same for 4 people or 400.

$149Group report fee, flat, once per group
4People at minimum
25% offEvery seat through February 1, 2027
15% or 25% offSeats after that, at 10 or more and at 25 or more

A worked example. A team of 8 takes a Leadership and culture assessment during the launch offer. Eight seats at $59 come to $472. The 25 percent launch discount takes off $118, leaving $354. Add the $149 report fee and the total is $503.

After the launch offer. A group of 25 on a Foundations assessment pays 25 seats at $29, which is $725. The 25 percent volume discount takes off $181.25, leaving $543.75. Add the $149 report fee and the total is $692.75. Discounts apply to the seats only and do not combine.

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The terms that matter for a group

  • A group code is valid for 90 days. If fewer than 4 people have finished when it ends, you may have one free extension of 30 days.
  • Unused seats are not refunded. The report fee is not refunded once the report has been produced.
  • You agree to tell everyone you invite that their answers will be combined into a group report that you receive. Each person also ticks a group agreement before starting.
  • We tell you how many people have finished, and never who.
  • Need a purchase order, or a group of more than 500? Use the request form below.

Read the full Terms and the privacy notice. Assessments are for development and reflection only.

Pricing

Launch pricing, per code

One code covers one completion of one assessment, including the on-screen reading and the emailed report. Prices are in US dollars. Pay online by card and the codes reach you within the minute, or ask for an invoice if your organization pays by purchase order. No account needed.

Foundations

$29

Entrepreneurial Skills, Strengths, DISC, Enneagram, Type Preferences, and the individual AI tools: AI Judgment Calibration, AI Decision Habits, Solo AI Leverage and Headroom, Solo Client Data and Trust Practice.

Leadership and culture

$59

Cross-Cultural Leadership Competence, Executive Leadership, Pressure Profile, Conflict Style, Psychological Safety, Belonging, Manager-to-Executive Shift, Leading Through AI Change, Leadership CQ for the AI Workplace.

Organization and governance

$79

Culture Change Readiness, Board Effectiveness, Succession Readiness, Founder Dependence, AI Adoption Readiness, Detectability, Operating Knowledge, HR Function Maturity, Pace Conflict, Why Isn't It Getting Done?, and the AI practice, HR, business, nonprofit and public sector tools (34 in all).

Leadership set

$149

Cross-Cultural Leadership Competence, Executive Leadership and Pressure Profile together, for one person. Available by request.

Cohorts and teams

15% to 25% off

15 percent off at 10 or more codes, 25 percent off at 25 or more.

Group report

$149

Flat fee for one combined report on a team, plus the seat price for each person. Four people at minimum. How group reports work.

Debrief session

$400

Sixty minutes with Dr. Otaola on one person's results, with a written summary of agreed actions.

Launch offer. Every code is 25 percent off through February 1, 2027. After that, list prices apply, with 15 percent off at 10 or more codes and 25 percent off at 25 or more. Discounts do not combine. The leadership set is available by request.

Larger work. Organizational assessment engagements and leadership programs are quoted after a scoping call.

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Choose the assessment and how many codes you need.

Each code covers one completion of one assessment. You pay by card, and the codes arrive by email with your receipt, ready to send. Give one to each person. Buying for a team? Choose "A team, with a group report" below, and read how group reports work first. Need an invoice, a purchase order or more than 200 codes? Use the request form below.

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Tell us who, which and by when

We reply by email with an invoice and the codes. If you are not sure which assessments fit, describe the problem and we will suggest two or three.