MBA programs, executive leadership institutes, and senior development initiatives use Evans Learning Labs tools to give participants behavioral data about themselves that course content alone cannot produce.
Executive education participants are experienced. They have led teams, managed organizations, and built careers. They also, as a group, have unusually well-developed self-narratives – stories about who they are as leaders that have been reinforced by success and rarely challenged by the kind of specific behavioral evidence that could reveal where those narratives do not match reality.
This makes self-awareness development in executive education unusually difficult. Generic reflection exercises produce generic answers. Rating scales produce scores that reflect aspiration as much as behavior. What actually disrupts a well-defended self-narrative is specific behavioral evidence – the experience of predicting a score and being wrong about it in a domain that matters to your professional identity.
That is what the Evans Learning Labs prediction feature produces. Before completing any assessment, participants predict their own domain-by-domain scores. The gap between prediction and result – particularly a large gap in a domain the participant considers a strength – creates the kind of productive discomfort that opens genuine reflection.
Academic licensing is available for executive education programs. Because the tools are self-directed, they require no facilitated debrief infrastructure – participants complete them independently and receive their results immediately. Facilitated debrief can be layered on top for programs that want that experience, but it is not required for the instrument to produce value.