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Evans Learning Labs

Diagnostics that tell you the truth about how you lead.

Leadership assessment tools for individual leaders, managers, teams, and organizations. Behavioral self-assessments with scored results, honest gap analysis, and LTI 1.3 LMS integration.

Behavioral assessments that score what is actually limiting your leadership, your team, and your organization. Domain-level gaps. Honest analysis. Concrete actions tied to what your responses reveal. Not a type. Not a color. A diagnosis with a development plan.

52
Diagnostic tools
1250+
Assessment items
250+
Performance domains
Sample result  •  Virtuous Leadership Profile
3.8
/ 5.0 overall
Values-Driven Leader
Character
4.3
Relationships
3.7
Practice
3.4
Stewardship
4.0
Purpose
3.6
Perception vs reality
You predicted 4.2 in Practice. You scored 3.4. The gap between how you see yourself and what your responses reveal is often the most valuable part of the assessment.
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What participants receive
A results report that drives development, not just reflection.

Scored domain-by-domain results, a perception-versus-reality comparison, priority development areas with calibrated action steps, and automatic longitudinal tracking every time you retake. See exactly what you get before you purchase.

⇣  Download sample report (PDF)
ELL Evans Learning Labs Take now Home Toolkit Research For Organizations ASSESSMENT RESULTS Leadership Capability Maturity Profile 3.4 / 5.0 FUNCTIONAL Predicted: 4.1 Gap: -0.7   Blind spot identified Self-Awareness 2.8 / 5.0 DEVELOPING People Dev. 3.6 / 5.0 FUNCTIONAL Decision-Making 3.9 / 5.0 FUNCTIONAL Change Leadership 3.2 / 5.0 DEVELOPING Systems Thinking 3.6 / 5.0 FUNCTIONAL PRIORITY DEVELOPMENT AREAS Priority 1 Self-Awareness   2.8 / 5.0 This week: After difficult conversations, write how you believe the other person experienced the exchange... Priority 2 Change Leadership   3.2 / 5.0 This week: Map the last change you led. Identify specifically where adoption stalled...
Who it is for
Built for three distinct audiences.

Every tool in the Evans Learning Labs suite is designed to serve a specific purpose for a specific audience, not everything to everyone.

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Individual Leaders and Managers
Take an honest look at how you actually lead across effectiveness, your emotional intelligence, your career direction, your management habits. Get specific, actionable guidance on what to work on next.
Personal Effectiveness Index, Emotional Intelligence and Resilience Profile, Career Clarity and Direction Profile, Virtuous Leadership Profile, Leadership Capability Maturity Profile, Manager Effectiveness Index
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Organizations and Teams
Diagnose what is actually limiting your organization's performance across strategy, culture, execution, alignment, talent, communication, and team dynamics. Get a clear map of where to invest first.
Strategic Clarity Index, Organizational Alignment Index, Culture to Performance Index, Execution Effectiveness Index, Talent Development and Succession Readiness Index, Meeting and Communication Effectiveness Index, and more
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Educators, Academic Institutions, and HR Leaders
Purpose-built for classroom use, leadership development programs, and organizational talent initiatives. Assign tools to student or employee cohorts, track completion, and access full results through an instructor or manager dashboard. Available directly through the platform or via LTI 1.3 integration into Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, D2L, or any LTI-compliant LMS.
Academic licensing for programs and institutions  ·  Organizational licensing for teams and cohorts  ·  LTI 1.3 integration available
How it works
Take it. Read it. Act on it.

No consultant required. No waiting for a report. Every tool is self-directed and delivers results immediately on completion.

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Choose your tool
Browse the catalog and select the tool that matches what you are trying to understand. Not sure where to start? The free Organizational Performance Assessment gives you a broad picture in about 15 minutes.
2
Answer honestly
Each tool walks you through 25 questions across five domains using behavioral descriptions rather than generic rating scales. Before you begin, you predict your own scores, so you can see exactly where your self-perception diverges from your responses.
3
Get your results immediately
Results include domain-level scores, an overall profile, a perception-versus-reality comparison, priority development areas, and specific recommendations. Download as a PDF report. Retake any time. Your history is saved to your dashboard.
The toolkit
52 tools. Every dimension of performance.
Click any tool below to see its description, domains, and pricing.
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Individual

Burnout Risk and Sustainability Profile

Assess whether your current work patterns are sustainable or quietly building toward depletion. Measures energy and recovery practices, workload management, boundary clarity, early warning recognition, and connection to meaningful work.
25 questions · 20 min
$49 / seat
Individual

Trust and Credibility Profile

Assess the specific behavioral conditions that determine whether others trust and rely on you professionally. Covers follow-through and reliability, transparency and reasoning, demonstrated competence, genuine investment in relationships, and whether your behavior holds under pressure.
25 questions · 20 min
$49 / seat
Individual

Manager Effectiveness Index

Evaluate how effectively you manage people across setting expectations, coaching, recognition, performance management, and psychological safety.
20 questions · 20 min
$49 / seat
Individual

Emotional Intelligence and Resilience Profile

Measure your self-awareness, emotional regulation, empathy, and capacity to recover under pressure.
25 questions · 20 min
$49 / seat
Individual

Leadership Integrity Profile

Evaluate how consistently your leadership reflects genuine character, honest relationships, ethical courage, and principled practice.
25 questions · 20 min
$49 / seat
Individual

Influence and Communication Profile

Assess how effectively you communicate, persuade, and influence across different audiences and contexts. Evaluates how well you read your audience, frame your message, manage resistance, and build the kind of credibility that makes your communication consistently land.
25 questions · ~20 min
$49 / seat
Team

Psychological Safety Index

Measure whether your team has genuine psychological safety across voice and candor, failure and learning, inclusion, interpersonal risk-taking, and leadership climate.
25 questions · 20 min
$49 / seat
Team

Team Dynamics Indicator

Measure how effectively your team functions across trust, communication, accountability, conflict, and collaboration.
25 questions · 20 min
$49 / seat
Organizational

AI Readiness and Adoption Index

Assess how effectively your organization is positioning itself for an AI-enabled future. Measures strategic clarity on AI, workforce capability and confidence, process and workflow adaptation, governance and risk management, and the cultural mindset that determines whether AI becomes a genuine capability or a surface-level initiative.
25 questions · 20 min
$49 / seat
Organizational

Workforce Engagement Index

Diagnose the degree to which your workforce is genuinely engaged, committed, and contributing at full capacity.
25 questions · 20 min
$49 / seat
Organizational

Organizational Trust Index

Diagnose the degree to which employees trust the organization itself. Covers whether leaders demonstrate trustworthy behavior, whether communication is honest and proactive, whether processes are fair and consistent, whether commitments to employees are kept, and whether people feel genuinely safe to speak up.
25 questions · 20 minutes
$49 / seat
For organizations and institutions
Two licensing models. One catalog. Built for how you actually deploy.

Whether your teams work through your own organizational portal or entirely inside your LMS, there is a licensing model built for it. Both include full catalog access, scored results, PDF reports, and longitudinal retake tracking.

Site-Based License
Your own administrative layer inside the ELL platform
Instructors and managers get a dedicated dashboard to control access, run cohorts, track completion, and review results. No IT department required. No procurement process. Self-serve from day one.
Group dashboards for every instructor or manager. Create named cohorts, assign tools to each group, and monitor completion and scores from a single organized view.
Seat-based access with instant provisioning. Add participants by email address. Access is provisioned automatically with no action required on their end.
Full individual report access for instructors. Administrators and instructors can view the complete PDF report for any participant in their groups. Participants retain private access to their own results.
Group-level completion tracking. See completion rates across all groups at a glance. Drill into any group to see exactly who has completed, who has not, and when.
Longitudinal retake tracking built in. Every retake is stored automatically. Instructors and participants can track whether scores actually change after development work.
Flexible seat allocation. Allocate seats across departments, course sections, or program cohorts. Reassign unused seats as rosters change.
Self-serve setup, no IT dependency. Administrators configure groups, add participants, and manage the full license without technical support or institutional IT involvement.
ELL ELL Admin Groups Dashboard Reports Settings SEATS ACTIVE 147 COMPLETION 83% ACTIVE GROUPS 6 GROUPS MBA 601 - Section A 23/25 LTI Active MBA 601 - Section B 19/25 LTI Active Leadership Dev. Cohort 42/42 LTI Done Exec. Ed. Spring 2026 35/60 LTI 58% Spring Cohort 2026 12/30 Site 40% 6 groups active 147 of 175 seats provisioned 3 via LTI
LTI 1.3 Integration
Native inside your LMS. No external accounts. No friction.
For institutions and organizations running Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, D2L, Brightspace, or any LTI 1.3-compliant LMS. Participants launch assessments from a course module and never leave your platform.
Zero external accounts for participants. Students and employees launch directly from a course module using their existing LMS identity. No signup, no external login, no new password.
Scores and completion pass back to the gradebook automatically. Assessment scores and completion status return to the LMS gradebook without any manual entry or export.
Instructor visibility inside the LMS. Completion and score data surfaces in your existing LMS reporting alongside every other course deliverable. No second system to monitor.
Works with any LTI 1.3-compliant platform. Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, D2L, Brightspace, and others. One integration, full catalog access across every course and section.
Deep link support for individual assessments. Drop any specific tool from the catalog directly into any course module. Students access only the assessment assigned to them.
Full SSO through LMS identity. Authentication is handled entirely by the LMS. No credentials are created or managed outside your institution's systems.
IT-friendly single integration. One LTI 1.3 configuration connects the full catalog. No per-tool setup, no ongoing maintenance, no per-user provisioning.
LTI 1.3 certified
Canvas LMS MGMT 601 Home Modules Grades People Week 4: Leadership Assessment Reading: Leadership Theory Ch. 4 Discussion: Case Study ELL Leadership Capability Assessment Opens in current window Quiz: Module 4 Check-in Gradebook Leadership Capability Assessment 3.8 LAUNCH Launch RETURN Score + Completion to Gradebook ELL Evans Learning Labs ASSESSMENT IN PROGRESS Leadership Capability Maturity Profile 15 of 25 questions How do you prioritize development conversations with your team? I schedule regular 1:1s focused on... Assessment Complete Score: 3.8 / 5.0 Returning to Canvas... LTI 1.3 authenticated via Canvas No external account created. Score will sync to gradebook automatically on completion. YOUR LMS EVANS LEARNING LABS
The framework
Grounded in established theory. Operationalized for practice.

Every Evans Learning Labs tool is built on a coherent theoretical foundation grounded in principles of virtuous leadership and organizational integrity, and expressed in language that works in any organizational context.

1
Behavioral descriptions, not rating scales
Every answer option is a precisely calibrated description of actual behavior. You choose the one that matches what you consistently do, not a number from 1 to 5 that you interpret however feels right that day.
2
Perception versus reality built in
Before answering, you predict your own scores. After completing the assessment, you see exactly where your self-perception diverged from what your responses revealed. Often the most valuable part of the whole exercise.
3
Longitudinal tracking built in
Every retake is stored automatically. Retake any tool after doing the development work and compare scores over time. The question is not just where you score today but whether the number actually moves.
4
Grounded in established research
Every tool is built on peer-reviewed research in leadership development, organizational behavior, applied psychology, and management science. Academically defensible frameworks expressed in language that works in any professional context.
Sample results
Strategic Clarity Index
3.4
 / 5.0
Emerging Strategic Clarity
Domain scores
Direction
4.1
Priorities
2.8
Cascade
2.4
Execution
3.2
Adaptability
3.6
Perception vs reality
You predicted
4.0
You scored
3.4
Gap identified
Priority actions
Strategy Cascade
Identify the lowest organizational level at which your strategy is still accurately described. That is where cascade is breaking down.
Priority Alignment
List every initiative currently active. Force-rank by strategic impact. Anything not in the top tier should be deferred or cancelled.
For educators
Designed for the classroom as much as the boardroom.

Evans Learning Labs tools are built to function as academic instruments, not just commercial products. The frameworks are grounded in established theory, the language is accessible, and the output is specific enough to anchor meaningful classroom discussion.

Grounded in virtuous business principles. The virtuous leadership and organization tools align with established frameworks of character-based and values-driven leadership, making them natural complements to curricula built on those principles.
Assignment-ready. Each tool produces a detailed results page that can serve as the basis for a reflective essay, a group discussion, or a leadership development plan assignment.
Institutional licensing. Volume pricing and institutional licenses are available for programs that want to assign tools to cohorts of students. Visit the academic licensing page to submit a request.
Curriculum integration support. Reach out to discuss how these tools can be integrated into your program's leadership development curriculum.
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Sample course assignment
MGMT 601 · Leadership Development
Leadership Diagnostic & Reflection Paper
1
Complete the Leadership Capability Maturity Profile individually before next class.
2
In 500–750 words, compare your predicted scores to your actual results. Where was the gap largest, and why?
3
Come to class ready to discuss one domain you scored lowest in and one concrete action you will take this term.
Why this is different
Diagnosis. Action. Measurement. In one system.

Most assessments tell you your type, your color, or your style – then leave you to figure out what to do with it. Every tool in this library asks you to identify actual behaviors, scores each domain independently, tells you the specific actions most likely to close each gap, and tracks whether your scores actually move after you do the work. Diagnosis, action, and measurement in one system.

Identify
Behavioral descriptions, not rating scales
You choose the description that matches what you actually do, not a number from 1 to 5 that you interpret however you like.
Act
Concrete actions, not vague suggestions
Every result includes specific, domain-level recommendations tied to what your responses revealed, not generic advice that applies to everyone.
Measure
Retake it. Compare. Track real change.
Retake any tool after doing the work. Your history is saved. See whether your scores actually moved and where the next gap is.
Most popular assessments tell you your type, your strengths, or your style. None of them tell you your current weaknesses, how to change them, and what you've actually changed.
From the research
Grounded in evidence. Written for practitioners.
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If you are not sure which tools fit your team, program, or organization, reach out. We are happy to talk through your situation and point you toward the right starting point.
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Informational and Educational Use Only

The diagnostic tools, assessments, profiles, and indexes offered by Evans Learning Labs are designed for informational and educational purposes only. Results do not constitute professional consulting advice, legal advice, psychological assessment, clinical evaluation, or any form of certified professional guidance.

Self-Reported Results

All results are based entirely on the responses provided by the individual completing the assessment. Evans Learning Labs makes no representation that scores or profiles accurately reflect objective organizational conditions or any other measurable external reality.

No Guarantee of Outcomes

Evans Learning Labs does not guarantee that use of these tools will produce any specific organizational, leadership, or performance outcome. Recommendations are general in nature and may not be appropriate for every individual, team, or organizational context.

Limitation of Liability

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