A Practical Pilot Study to Identify Hidden Leadership Costs

Leadership Resources Management (LRM) helps organizations uncover where leadership misalignment, toxic behavior, and high-performer risk may be reducing execution, retention, and financial performance. This pilot study is designed to give executive teams a clear, measurable starting point for better leadership decisions.

Interested in exploring whether this pilot is a fit for your organization? Complete our LRM Pilot Study Contact form and we will follow up to discuss next steps.


Presented through executive-ready research and supported by pilot-study ROI findings of over 300% from financial impact of weak morale, lower productivity, and avoidable turnover.

Leadership problems are often expensive before they become obvious

Many organizations can see the symptoms of leadership strain long before they can quantify the cause. Slower execution, turnover risk, uneven accountability, leader-role mismatch, and the lingering impact of toxic behavior often show up across teams as operating drag.

Leadership Resources Management was developed to help leaders move beyond broad leadership development conversations and into a more disciplined evaluation of where leadership resources are aligned, underused, misapplied, or damaging performance. The goal is not to add another generic program, but to create a clearer basis for leadership decisions with measurable business relevance.

Included in the Pilot

The pilot is designed as a focused, executive-friendly engagement, including:

  • Leadership assessment and data gathering across the pilot group.
  • Analysis of leadership alignment, toxic-risk indicators, and leadership utilization.
  • Identification of where leadership structure, role fit, or behavior may be weakening team performance.
  • Executive readout summarizing findings, financial implications, and practical next steps.

Pilot Findings Show Measurable Upside

In a recent 23-person pilot study, the organization realized a financial impact of $2.2 million from the toxic leader and misaligned leader analysis, as well as identifying high-performers for better retention strategies which represented ROIs 300% to 2,841% from weak morale, lower productivity, and avoidable turnover. These results help frame leadership management not only as a people issue, but as a measurable business-performance issue and was presented as a case study at the 2025 SHRM national conference.

Who is a Pilot Designed for?

This pilot is especially relevant for CEOs, COOs, CHROs, and senior HR leaders who want a sharper way to evaluate leadership effectiveness, execution risk, and talent retention exposure. It is well suited for mid-sized organizations that need more than intuition but want something more targeted and practical than a large-scale transformation effort.

Each Pilot Involves

  • Minimum 20 persons
  • Choose a focus: Misaligned Leaders or Toxic Leaders
    • Toxic leader analysis uses anonymous, multi-rater assessments to identify toxic leaders
    • Misaligned leader analysis uses our AI model to determine alignment with a leader’s current of future position
    • Automatically populates the leadership tiers for retention of top-tier, High-Valued leaders
  • Personalized results report and 1 hour of one-on-one coaching for each leader in the pilot
  • Summary report for the executive leader or sponsor

The July 31st Reduce Rate Study includes these benefits:

  • Focused exclusively on Misaligned Leaders
    • Populates High-Valued leaders tiers
  • Minimum 10 persons
  • 50% off our regular rate
    • Locks in the reduced rate for 6 months for up to 10 leaders per month

If your organization is interested in identifying hidden leadership costs and understanding where stronger alignment could improve performance, complete our Pilot Study Contact Form to start the conversation.