Organizations should invest in executive assessment when leadership decisions carry significant business risk or when decision quality, leadership performance, or impact potential need to improve.

Typical triggers include:

  • High-stakes hiring at the director level and above
  • Promotion or readiness decisions for critical roles
  • Lack of confidence in current selection processes
  • Painful leadership failures have occurred
  • Stagnation in current leadership performance
  • Inconsistent or subjective talent decisions across the organization
  • Need to strengthen succession pipelines and leadership capability
  • Uncertainty in identifying high-potential current leadership

MDA Executive Assessment is designed for these moments—when better decisions directly impact business performance.