H
Honest with yourself
Seeing your leadership as it actually is, without flattery or flinching.
Leadership Assessment
What's the ceiling to your leadership?
The only assessment that shows you your ceiling, and the gap between what you know, what you think you do, and what those who work with you actually see.
- Free
- About 10 minutes
- No account needed to start
Honest with yourself
Open to others
Love people
Develop others
HOLD
How It Works
- 01
Take 40 questions
About ten quiet minutes. No timer, no scoring tricks.
- 02
See your scores
Your three scores, and where your ceiling sits today.
- 03
Invite your Trusted Circle
Share a private code with the people who see you lead.
- 04
See the gap
How you see yourself, next to how they actually experience you.
Is this for you?
For people who lead people, and take it personally.
You do not need a big title or a large team. If you lead people whose lives are influenced by how you show up, this was built for you.
H
You sense a gap between how you show up and how it actually lands, and you would rather know than guess.
O
You get more agreement than honest pushback, and you cannot always tell whether that is trust or distance.
L
You care about the people you lead, and you want them to feel it, not just assume it.
D
You would rather hear a hard truth now than find it later in someone's exit conversation.
The HOLD Framework
HOLD names the four capacities that decide how far your leadership can carry the people around you. Many leaders are stronger in two or three and quietly capped by one. The assessment measures all four, then creates a guide to help raise your overall ceiling.
O
Open to others
Inviting truth from those you lead, and staying open when it lands hard.
L
Love people
Caring for the person in front of you before the performance they produce.
D
Develop others
Building leaders who grow past the ceiling you had to climb through.
What It Measures
Three simple scores, and the two gaps that sit between them.
Sample results
82/100
Insight
What you understand about good leadership.
68/100
Self-Action
What you believe you do as a leader.
54/100
Observed-Action
What others observe you doing.
The Knowing-Doing Gap
The distance between what you know is right and what you do when the week gets heavy.
82Insight
68Self-Action
14-point Knowing-Doing Gap
You score 82 on what you know, and 68 on what you do. That 14-point space is the work.
The Perception Gap
The distance between what you believe you do and what others say they experience.
68Self-Action
54Observed-Action
14-point Perception Gap
You rate your own actions at 68. Your circle experiences 54. That 14-point space is unseen.
Built on trust
What Your Circle Sees
Honest answers only come when people feel safe. Here is exactly how this is handled.
Anonymous responses
Your circle answers privately. Their individual answers are never shown to you.
A combined score only
You see one combined view of what your circle experiences, never a name beside a number.
Your results stay yours
Your circle never sees your scores, your reflections, or your gaps.
The leader others experience is not always the leader you think you are.
That distance goes unnamed for years. This assessment gives it a shape, so you can do something about it.
Based on the book
The Inner Ceiling by Jonathan D. Reynolds
This assessment is an extension of The Inner Ceiling, a book about the quiet limit leaders place on themselves, and the honest work of raising it.
Jonathan D. Reynolds is the CEO of Titus Talent Strategies and a bestselling author who has spent more than two decades helping leaders build high-performing teams and healthy cultures. Titus has partnered with over 1,500 organizations, giving him a rare vantage point on why talented people quietly disengage and leave. Then he found them in himself.
jonathandreynolds.com
Jonathan has a wonderful way of weaving together stories, life lessons, and compelling leadership training, delivered with a well-developed sense of humor and engaging style.