The executive team assessment that surfaces hidden risks before they limit growth.
Each leader answers 28 questions in less than 10 minutes. Your team gets a 20+ page report on the four capabilities growth depends on, showing where your company is strong, where it is vulnerable, and where your leaders see it differently.
A look beneath what your business is experiencing.
Problems with scalability, execution, growth, and people rarely exist in isolation. Most leaders drive energy towards addressing visible symptoms without a complete picture of what's creating those vulnerabilities underneath. The Ascent Assessment measures four capabilities of how a company is led, through the eyes of every leader on your executive team, so you can take action where it counts most.
What your team’s report shows you
Once every leader has submitted their responses, the Ascent Assessment generates a 20+ page report built to be worked through together.
Where your company is strong, and where it is vulnerable
A score for each of the four Peaks of the OrgHealth Ascent Model, plus your highest- and lowest-scoring questions. Strengths get named alongside the areas that need attention.
Where your leaders see things differently
The report shows the spread of responses on every question. Picture a CEO who rates the strategy as clear while half the executive team does not. An average would bury that gap. This report puts it on the table.
What to discuss, and what to do about it
Each Peak comes with suggested actions tied to your score, discussion questions, and space for your team to decide its own commitments.
Shawn Good
CEO, Libro Credit Union
Built on the Ascent Model of organizational health
The Ascent Assessment measures four connected capabilities, called the four Peaks of the OrgHealth Ascent Model. The Ascent Model is introduced in the USA Today bestseller The Imperfect CEO by Jim Brown.
Collaborative Culture
Psychological safety, collective wins, and lived values.
Leadership Accountability
Personal ownership, behavioural impact, and role clarity.
Strategic Momentum
Clear strategy, proactive adaptability, and sustainable profitability.
Talent Magnetism
Best-fit attraction, high engagement, and meaningful rewards.
How the Ascent Assessment works
Easy, accessible, efficient—let's keep your time spent where your perspective and expertise make the biggest difference.
Create a free account at orghealthascent.com and add your executive team. It only takes a few minutes.
28 rating questions, less than 10 minutes, on any device. No rating is ever tied to a person. The app sends the invitations and reminders.
When everyone has responded, generate your 20+ page PDF. This is the point where you pay.
Bring in an OrgHealth advisor for a guided debrief, or run the conversation yourselves using the questions built into the report. Arriving at an action plan is the goal.
Try an individual test-run first
Answer 12 questions on your own and get a one-page report in your browser, free and private. It gives one leader's view (yours!) of the same four Peaks and a preview of what the full team report covers.
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Get more from your results with a guided debrief
A report can show that your leaders see something differently. Learning why takes a conversation, and the conversations that matter most are the hardest to run from inside the team.
An experienced outside advisor
Someone with no stake in the answer, and with operating and boardroom experience of their own, keeps the conversation on what the results show.
Highly engaging discussion
This is a high-stakes conversation, and we consider it our responsibility to keep everyone (even over Zoom) contributing to momentum right to the end.
Shared written commitments
Each leader leaves with an individual commitment and the team with a shared one. A Next Steps Summary follows, along with a one-on-one for the CEO.
Three ways to start
The Ascent Assessment can be completed on your own as a purchase without our involvement, or we can bundle it with options to help you go further with what you learn.
Frequently Asked Questions
If you're a "pick up the phone" kind of person: we would love to talk with you. But here are some quick answers to give a bit more clarity right away.
The Ascent Assessment is a 28-question assessment for executive teams. Each leader responds anonymously in less than 10 minutes. The team receives a 20+ page report scoring the company on the four Peaks of the OrgHealth Ascent Model designed to illuminate where leaders should direct their energy.
The Ascent Model is OrgHealth's model of organizational health. It describes four connected capabilities, called Peaks (areas leaders must invest in together to reach the company's full potential): Collaborative Culture, Leadership Accountability, Strategic Momentum, and Talent Magnetism. You can read a more in-depth explanation of the model here.
The four hidden risks (Scalability, Execution, Growth, and People) describe what leaders experience in the business. The Assessment measures the capabilities beneath them. Any one risk can trace to several Peaks, which is why the Assessment measures all four together.
No. The Assessment shows where your company is strong, where it is vulnerable, and where your leaders disagree, so you know where to look. Establishing why a problem exists is the work of a Diagnosis, which OrgHealth advisors carry out with your team. OrgHealth often uses the Ascent Assessment as part of our Diagnosis process with clients who are evaluating where to invest over the year ahead to position themselves to overcome their present challenges.
Less than 10 minutes per leader for the 28 questions. Setup takes a few minutes, and you can generate the report as soon as every leader has responded.
Yes. No rating is ever associated with a participant. The report shows the spread of responses on each question without identifying who gave them.
Each Peak is scored as High (70–100%), Medium (31–69%), or Low (0–30%), and the report's questions and suggested actions are matched to those results. The score is only the beginning. The spread of responses, and the conversation your team has about it, carry most of the value.
Meet as a team with the report in front of everyone. It is laid out to structure that meeting: scores, the spread on each question, discussion questions, suggested actions, and a closing section where the team agrees on its commitments. If you are meeting without an advisor, send the report ahead of time and have different leaders lead different sections.
Yes. The questions are written from the executive team's vantage point, and change at the company level depends on commitment from its most senior leaders. Other teams can adapt it, though we don't recommend that.