Analytics Leadership Assessment — Discover Your Pattern

The Analytics Leadership Circle is a free self-assessment for data and analytics leaders. In 20 questions, it maps where you invest your leadership energy across 6 dimensions: Influence & Trust, Storytelling & Framing, Organizational Design & Culture, Analytical Rigor & Quality, Delivery & Responsiveness, and Architecture & Ecosystem.

The 6 Dimensions

The top three dimensions form the Adaptive hemisphere — the human side of analytics leadership: how you build trust, tell stories with data, and design your organization. The bottom three form the Technical hemisphere — the craft side: rigor, speed, and ecosystem architecture.

9 Named Leadership Patterns

Your answers generate one of nine named patterns: The Factory Builder, The Demo Magician, The Translator, The Technician, The Politician, The Operator, The Connector, The Specialist, or The Balanced Leader. Each pattern includes strengths, a shadow side, and a coaching question.

Built on Distinctive Frameworks

Unlike generic leadership assessments, every question surfaces a specific philosophy from 25+ years of analytics leadership: the Manufacturing Mindset, Usage Is the Receipt, the 70% Confidence Principle, Build That!, Data Tables as Hieroglyphics, the Four E's (Engagement before Efficiency), Ecosystems Over Products, and more.

From the Author of The Auction Block

Created by Brian Cariveau, author of The Auction Block — a business fable about analytics transformation inspired by The Phoenix Project. The assessment connects your results to specific chapters and essays from the book.