Assessments โ€” Sam Buemi, PhD

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Yourself

Emotional Intelligence
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Read the Room
"Emotional intelligence isn't what you feel โ€” it's what you do. This measures the doing."

Most people think they have high EI. This assessment measures it across six behavioral domains โ€” how you actually read people, regulate yourself under pressure, give feedback, navigate conflict, and show up when it matters. You'll see where your practice is sharp and where it costs you.

Self-Regulation Reading Others Feedback Conflict Capacity
46
Questions
6
Domains
~11
Minutes
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Conversation Intelligence
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The Avoidance Ledger
"Every conversation you're not having is a decision you're making. This shows you what it's costing."

Silence has a price. This assessment identifies the difficult conversations you're avoiding, measures the real cost to your relationships and results, and reveals the fear patterns and avoidance styles quietly shaping your professional life.

Avoidance Patterns Cost Awareness Fear Calibration Conversation Style
26
Questions
5
Domains
~8
Minutes
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Moral Injury
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Moral Health Assessment
"Burnout is exhaustion. Moral injury is what happens when you're asked to violate what you believe โ€” and you do it anyway."

This three-module instrument goes where engagement surveys don't. It screens for moral injury, audits the structural conditions driving it, and measures your remaining integrity capital โ€” the psychological reserve that makes sustained, ethical leadership possible.

Moral Injury Screen Structural Audit Integrity Capital
45
Questions
3
Modules
~6
Minutes
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Personality
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WorkPulse
"Your personality isn't your fate โ€” but it is the operating system running underneath everything you do at work."

Built on the most validated model in personality science, WorkPulse maps your profile across five core dimensions โ€” Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Emotional Stability โ€” and translates your results into practical insight for how you lead, collaborate, and perform.

Openness Conscientiousness Extraversion Agreeableness
48
Questions
5
Dimensions
~20
Minutes
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Leadership
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Servant Leadership
"The best leaders make their people better. This measures whether yours actually do."

Leadership is a practice, not a title. This assessment uses 24 workplace scenarios to measure how you actually lead โ€” across Trust, Psychological Safety, Influence & Service, and Coachability. You receive a named leadership profile and specific, actionable insight you can use Monday morning.

Trust Psych Safety Coachability Service
24
Scenarios
4
Dimensions
~25
Minutes
Beginโ†’
Generational Intelligence
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Wired Different
"You didn't choose your generation. But it shaped how you trust, lead, and define work โ€” whether you know it or not."

Generational conflict at work isn't about age โ€” it's about formation. This assessment identifies your generational pattern, reveals how your era shaped your relationship to authority, loyalty, and meaning, and gives you the cross-generational translation skills to work more effectively with everyone around you.

Trust & Authority Meaning at Work Cross-Gen Insight Monday Move
20
Questions
4
Profiles
~8
Minutes
Beginโ†’

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ROOM

Workplace Emotional Intelligence Self-Assessment

This is not a personality test. It maps how you actually operate across six workplace domains โ€” based on behavior, not intentions. This tool shows you where your practice is working and where it needs attention.

โฑ About 10โ€“12 minutes. Work quickly โ€” first instinct beats overthinking every time.

Three Core Skills

Reading People

Picking up on what's actually going on โ€” in yourself, in others, and in the room โ€” not just what's being said.

Staying Calm

Keeping your head when things get hard โ€” rather than reacting on instinct and dealing with the fallout.

Saying Hard Things

Saying what needs to be said โ€” specifically and carefully โ€” before silence makes the problem worse.

Six Sections
One at a Time

Rate each item based on how you actually behave at work โ€” not your best days, not your intentions:

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Assessment Complete

You've answered all 46 items. Your results are ready.

Your scores don't matter. What you do next does.

Your Results

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The
AVOIDANCE
LEDGER

A self-assessment for the conversations you haven't had yet

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Name the pattern
See how you avoid
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Count the cost
What silence costs
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Your next move
Specific & actionable

Every difficult conversation you're avoiding has a cost. This assessment doesn't ask whether you avoid — it asks how, why, and at what price. Twenty-six questions. Five domains. One honest answer about the rooms you keep walking out of before the real conversation starts.

~8 minutes · 26 questions · Your results are not stored

The Avoidance Ledger 0 / 26

Answer all questions in this section to continue

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Workforce Personality Profile

WorkPulse

A science-backed personality assessment designed for the people who build things, heal people, and keep the world running.

Your responses are private. There are no right or wrong answers โ€” only honest ones. Answer based on how you actually are at work, not how you would like to be. This tool is for personal development only. It is not used for hiring or performance decisions.

48 Questions Under 20 Minutes 5 Dimensions
Openness Conscientiousness Extraversion Agreeableness Emotional Stability
Section 1 of 5
1 โ€” Not like me at all 3 โ€” Neutral 5 โ€” Very much like me
Your Personality Profile
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Servant
Leadership
Assessment

A scenario-based reflection on your observable leadership behaviors โ€” across four dimensions that define servant leadership in practice.

24 Scenarios ยท 4 Sections ยท 20โ€“30 Minutes ยท Personalized Profile
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Scenario-Based

Real workplace situations โ€” not abstract ratings. Respond based on what you'd actually do, not who you aspire to be.

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Four Dimensions

Trust ยท Psychological Safety ยท Influence & Service ยท Coachability โ€” scored independently and mapped to a radar profile.

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Named Profile

Receive a leadership profile with specific strengths, growth edges, and a personalized reflection prompt.

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Sectioned by Domain

Six questions per domain, completed in focused batches. Review your section score before continuing.

This is a self-reflection, not an evaluation. Answer based on your typical behavior under real conditions โ€” including pressure โ€” not your ideal behavior.

โฑ 20โ€“30 minutes

0 of 6 answered
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Your Leadership Profile

Based on 24 scenarios across four dimensions of servant leadership. Use this as a compass โ€” not a verdict.

Servant Leadership Radar
Your Score
Growth Range (3.5โ€“4.5)

The dashed line marks a development range โ€” not a perfection target.
Scores consistently above 4.5 warrant scrutiny for people-pleasing or over-deference.

Personalized Insights
Reflection Prompt

Before you move on, sit with this question.

Tied to your lowest-scoring dimension. No writing required โ€” just honest thought.

Consider this on your own, or bring it into a conversation with your team.

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