Measure your
Executive Readiness.
Bring greater clarity to your executive progression.
The FD Readiness Diagnostic™ helps operational finance leaders understand where they currently sit in the transition towards executive leadership.
It provides a structured interpretation of your current executive readiness, helping you identify where to focus your development next.
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Purchase the Diagnostic — £29Secure payment. Delivered after you complete the online questionnaire
Move from recognition to clarity.
The Complimentary Paper introduces the FD Readiness Gap™.
The Diagnostic helps you understand how that experience may apply to you.
Rather than asking whether you are "executive ready", it helps you interpret how you are currently experiencing the transition towards executive leadership.
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The result is greater clarity about your current position — and greater confidence about where to focus next.
Understand how you are currently experiencing the transition.
Identify where to focus your development effort for the greatest impact.
Gain clarity about your current position and what comes next.
Build confidence in your development decisions.
What you'll receive
The FD Readiness Diagnostic™ provides:
FD Readiness Stage™
Your current stage in the FD Readiness Transition™ — from Operational Reinforcement through to Executive Integration — based on your leadership scope and executive participation.
Five Dimension Results
Your score across all five FD Readiness Framework™ dimensions, each out of 50, with a band showing how strongly each transition dynamic is currently present.
FD Readiness Transition Profile™
A personalised interpretation of how your results relate to executive progression.
How This May Be Showing Up
What your results may mean in practice, day to day, including your individual transition pattern.
Development priorities
Guidance on where future effort is likely to have the greatest impact.
Inside your Diagnostic
Your results are presented as a structured PDF report, designed to be read and revisited — combining your Stage, a dimension-by-dimension breakdown and your FD Readiness Transition Profile™.
FD Readiness Stage™
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BEHAVIOURAL EXPANSION
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Five Dimension Results
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FD Readiness Transition Profile™
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You are building important executive capabilities and actively transitioning towards broader leadership responsibilities.
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A more complete picture of executive readiness.
Executive readiness cannot be understood through a single capability.
The Diagnostic explores five integrated dimensions that together provide a broader picture of how executive readiness is currently being experienced.
Rather than reducing executive readiness to a simplistic score, it helps you understand the relationship between different dimensions and what they may be telling you collectively.
That context is where the real value lies.
No single dimension determines executive readiness. It is the relationship between them that explains how the transition is being experienced.
The Five Dimensions of Executive Readiness
1. Operational Leadership Conditioning
Explores how your leadership orientation has been shaped by operational environments.
2. Executive-Readiness Ambiguity
Explores how difficult executive progression currently feels to interpret.
3. Organisational Confidence
Explores your comfort in operating within broader and more politically complex environments.
4. Executive Environment Interpretation
Explores how well you recognise and interpret the nature of executive environments.
5. Behavioural Visibility & Participation
Explores how visible your leadership is and how actively you participate in broader organisational contexts.
How the Diagnostic works
- 1
Complete the Diagnostic.
Answer a structured set of questions covering the five dimensions of executive readiness. It takes around 30 minutes.
- 2
Your responses are interpreted.
Your answers are scored against the FD Readiness Framework™ rather than compared to a generic leadership benchmark.
- 3
Receive your personalised report.
Your FD Readiness Stage™, five dimension results and FD Readiness Transition Profile™ are generated automatically and emailed to you shortly after you finish.
- 4
Use it to focus your development.
Your strongest dimensions and development priorities show you where continued effort is likely to have the greatest impact.
The detail
- Format
- Online questionnaire, around 30 minutes
- Delivery
- Personalised PDF report, emailed after you complete the questionnaire
- Price
- £29, one-time payment
- Designed for
- Operational finance leaders progressing towards executive responsibility
The FD Readiness Diagnostic™ is a structured self-assessment. It is not a psychometric test and does not measure intelligence, personality or capability.
Designed to increase understanding, not judge capability.
The Diagnostic is not intended to label your leadership capability.
It is designed to help you interpret your current position with greater clarity.
- That distinction matters.
- When you understand where you are, development becomes more deliberate, more focused and more effective.
- Clarity is the foundation of meaningful progress.
Frequently asked questions
Everything you may want to know before completing the FD Readiness Diagnostic™.
Around 30 minutes. It is best completed in one sitting, without overthinking your answers.
Understand where you are. Identify what to develop next.
Executive development becomes more effective when it begins with accurate interpretation. The FD Readiness Diagnostic™ helps you understand your current position and identify where to focus your development next.
£29
Secure payment. Delivered after you complete the online questionnaire