The right leader can shift the direction of an entire organisation. When the stakes are that high, gut instinct isn't enough.

At Sterling Black, our CEO & C-Suite leadership assessments can help you:

  • Build leadership pipelines and succession plans
  • Identify high potential candidates
  • Launch development and upskilling initiatives
  • Assess leaders’ fit for role 
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Why choose Sterling Black for your leadership assessments?

CEO & C-Suite leadership experts

We work exclusively with the top-tier of leadership. We know exactly what it takes for CEOs and C-Suite executives to be successful leaders and we customise our assessment process to your organisation.

Experienced assessors

Our team all have at least two decades of experience assessing CEO and C-Suite leaders in private enterprise, government and non-profit organisations.

High-quality, data-driven reporting

We use a high-touch process that sets the gold standard in top-tier leadership assessment. Our clients trust us for the validity and robustness of our data and insights.

Our approach

Custom Success Profiling

We talk to the board, CEO or people leader about what success looks like for the role(s) we're assessing. This provides a benchmark of your most important leadership behaviours, skills and traits, which we use to customise your assessment process.

Assessment

Our unique methodology uses 10 touchpoints to accurately measure leadership experience, competencies, style and motivations. We’re also accredited in all credible leadership profiling tools and can use these as needed.

Development Plans

We provide all participants with tailored development plans that focus on getting to the crux of their development needs.

Analytics

The accuracy of our assessment methodology allows us to provide robust analytics at both the individual and group level. Our reports include stack ranking, benchmarking and competence, readiness and potential ratings.

Next Steps

Our leadership assessments provide a data-driven foundation for further leadership development, coaching, succession planning and team effectiveness workshops.

Our clients

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