The structured foundation for your highest-stakes leadership decisions.
EXECUTIVE ASSESSMENT
Whether you’re selecting a finalist, building a succession bench, identifying high potentials, or accelerating leadership development, INDx’s Executive Assessment gives you validated, integrated data on the leaders who matter most.
— WHO IT’S FOR
Four situations where INDx’s assessment changes the outcome.
Executive Assessment is a flexible engagement. The process is consistent, and the application adapts to what your organization needs right now.
Your finalist have all impressed. You need a structured, data-informed lens for the final conversation and the decision.
INDx gives your stakeholders deeper insights before or alongside final interviews, providing a clear picture of each person’s fit, strengths, derailers, and onboarding recommendations.
SELECTION
SUCCESSION
When a transition is planned, or when it arrives before you’re ready, INDx assesses your leadership pipeline and delivers a data-grounded picture of successor readiness across the roles or levels in scope.
You need to know who is ready, who will be ready, and what it will take to get them there.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
INDx uses the full assessment process as the foundation for individual development, surfacing behavioral patterns, growth opportunities, and targeted priorities that make coaching and development more precise and lasting.
A leader is ready for the next stage of growth, and you want development grounded in validated data, not just perceptions.
HIGH-POTENTIAL IDENTIFICATION
INDx assesses populations of emerging leaders, from small to larger cohorts, delivering individual reports and an aggregate view of where your next generation of leadership is strongest, and where investment will have the most impact. evidence-based foundation.
You have a cohort of emerging leaders and want an objective, consistent view of their potential.
WHY IT MATTERS
Most leadership decisions rely on interviews. Assessment is what makes them more predictive.
Interviews surface a great deal about a candidate, but research consistently shows that structured assessment adds measurable predictive validity to leadership decisions across selection, succession, and development contexts.
46%
Of executive hires fail within 18 months, most often due to behavioral and cultural factors that structured assessment reliably identifies in advance.
3x
The estimated cost of an executive mis-hire relative to base salary, when you account for recruitment, lost productivity, and the organizational disruption that follows.
“ The interview tells you how well someone performs under the specific conditions of an interview. Assessment data tells you how they’ll likely perform when the stakes are real, and the pressure is on.”
HOW IT WORKS
A process that adapts to your context.
FULL PROCESS & DELIVERABLES
Executive Assessment One-Page Overview
Every phase, every deliverable, and what you receive in a single, sharable document designed for your leadership team.
Discover
Organizational context, strategic direction, participant population, and success criteria are established before anything begins.
Define
Tailored leadership success profile built and approved by stakeholder before the assessment begins.
Hogan battery, 360s, and INDx-conducted biographical interview runs concurrently for every participant.
Assess & Interview
Integrate
All data sources are synthesized into individual reports and an aggregate cohort view.
Deliver
Individual feedback, stakeholder debrief, and other deliverables based on scope.
ALSO AVAILABLE
Need a lighter touch? Candidate Comparison will be a better fit.
Candidate Comparison is INDx’s focused assessment for the final 2-3 candidates for a role. This solution is designed to inform and sharpen the final interview before a decision is made. Same Hogan foundation, off-the-shelf profiles, and faster turnaround. Well-suited for roles where a full Executive Assessment isn’t warranted, or where timeline and budget call for a more targeted engagement.
EXECUTIVES ASSESSED
Pharmaceutical
ENGAGEMENT LENGTH
ORGANIZATION
INDUSTRY
Giving a CEO the clarity to lead his team through what comes next.
US-Based
10 weeks
12
— IN PRACTICE
— THE SITUATION
The CEO of a US-based pharmaceutical company was preparing for a significant strategic transition and needed a clear, evidence-based picture of his executive team before making consequential decisions. He knew his team had capability and needed an honest view of where that capability was strongest, where the gaps were, and what development would be required to perform at the next level.
INDx built a leadership success profile tailored to the organization's strategic context and then administered Hogan Assessments to the executive team. Each leader received an individual debrief and a personalized development plan. The CEO received a comprehensive brief on each executive to better understand their capabilities, gaps, and development priorities, along with an integrated team view and an actionable path for preparing his organization for what comes next.
— THE INDx APPROACH
10 WKS
From engagement start to CEO debrief: leadership success profile, full assessments, individual briefs, and development plans delivered.
12
Senior executives assessed, individually debriefed, and placed on documented development tracks.
Decision Ready
CEO received a clear, evidence-based view of his team's capabilities, gaps, and development priorities and an action plan for the next strategic move.
— FAQ
Questions we hear most often.
If you don't see your question here, bring it to the consultation. We are happy to talk through any aspect of the engagement before you get started.
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Yes. This is one of the most important aspects of engagement. Executive Assessment is used across four distinct contexts: selection, succession, high-potential identification, and leadership development.
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Search firms have an inherent interest in closing the placement, which can subtly shape how candidates are framed and presented. INDx is independent: we have no financial stake in which candidate is selected or which internal leader is promoted. Our job is to give you the most accurate, objective picture of each individual so that the decision your organization makes if fully informed.
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Ideally, at the finalist stage, once you’ve narrowed it down to the candidates you’re seriously considering. INDx is typically engaged after candidates have completed earlier interview rounds and are performing well. The assessment gives your stakeholder a deeper, more structured lens for final conversations and the decision that follows.
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All participants are aware they’re completing an assessment. INDx will advise you on how to introduce it appropriately for your context. What participants receive depends on the scope of engagement and your organization’s direction. For development, succession, and high-potential engagements, participants typically receive their full report and a feedback session.
For selection engagements, the organization determines what is shared with the candidates. For the hired candidate, INDx provides a personalized, integrated report with onboarding recommendations as part of the delivery phase.
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Timeline and scope vary significantly by use case. A selection engagement with three finalists moves quickly, typically a few weeks from scoping to debrief. A high-potential identification program assessing a large cohort of leaders has a longer assessment window, more individual interviews, and a more comprehensive stakeholder presentation. INDX scopes each engagement individually and establishes a clear timeline in the discovery session. If you have a hard deadline, that’s part of the scoping conversation from the start.
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Candidate Comparison is INDx’s focused offering for the final 2-3 candidates, designed to inform the final interview before a decision is made, using an off-the-shelf profile and a faster turnaround.
Executive Assessment is a fuller engagement: the success profile is tailored to your organizational context, every participant receives an INDx-conducted interview, and all data points are integrated into a synthesized report.
Executive Assessment is also an appropriate engagement for succession, high-potential identification, and development use cases, contexts where Candidae Comparison is not designed to operate.
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