Growth & Leadership Diagnostic

Find what’s holding growth back. Decide what to do next.

When an organisation grows, the way work gets done needs to grow with it. Decisions can pile up around a few people, responsibilities become blurred, and capable leaders spend more time coordinating work than moving it forward.

The Growth & Leadership Diagnostic brings employee feedback, individual strengths and confidential interviews together into a clear view of what is helping performance, what is getting in the way, and where to act first.

Led by Dan Kuss, Founder of Strengths Academy and Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach.

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Who it is for

Growing organisations whose leaders want a practical way to understand and address the pressures of growth. Particularly suited to professional services, architecture, engineering and technical businesses where:

• Too many decisions still depend on the owner or senior leaders.

• People are busy, but priorities and ownership are not consistently clear.

• Delegation, coordination or handovers are becoming harder.

• Capable people need clearer expectations and room to lead.

• Leadership time is being consumed by recurring operational problems.

What’s included

One integrated diagnostic, typically delivered over four to six weeks, with a follow-up 30 days after the leadership workshop.

• Sponsor alignment and context review. Agree the business questions, participants and desired outcomes, then review relevant strategy, structure and operating information.

• Gallup Q12 Engagement Survey for up to 50 staff. Assessment access, survey administration and analysis of the conditions supporting employee engagement.

• CliftonStrengths Full 34 Report for up to 15 participants. Assessment access, review of individual results and analysis of the collective leadership profile.

• Up to 15 confidential one-on-one interviews. Approximately 45 minutes each, exploring roles, strengths and how work gets done. Strengths discussion is integrated into these interviews.

• Two days of diagnostic delivery. Choose two days on-site at an agreed location, or one day on-site and one day of virtual interviews. Virtual time can be scheduled in agreed blocks for teams spread across Australia. The 15 interviews sit within this two-day allowance.

• An integrated findings report. A concise view of strengths, constraints, supporting evidence and practical options, including where further investigation is needed.

• A two-hour leadership decision workshop. Held after the diagnostic delivery days to agree three priorities and a 90-day action plan with owners, milestones and measures.

• A 45-minute follow-up. Review progress and emerging obstacles 30 days after the leadership workshop.

What you leave with

A shared understanding of what matters most. We examine clarity, ownership, capacity, delegation, management time, coordination and accountability in your organisation's context.

A practical plan for the next 90 days. Clear priorities, named owners and a way to check whether progress is happening.

A sound basis for your next investment. Decide whether the next step is leadership development, clearer roles, different working practices or further investigation.

How we work

Listen and understand. We establish the context, gather employee feedback and explore individual perspectives.

Connect the evidence. We bring the assessments and interviews together, testing themes rather than assuming every growing organisation has the same problems.

Agree action. Your leadership team turns the findings into priorities, ownership and practical next steps.

Interview comments are reported as unattributed themes. Individual assessment results are handled confidentially, and the organisation receives collective findings. We agree reporting boundaries and participation arrangements before the work begins.

Your investment

A$20,000 + GST

A fixed fee for the complete scope above, including Q12 and CliftonStrengths assessment access, preparation, analysis, the report, leadership workshop and follow-up.

Travel is charged at actual cost, without markup. We agree the travel estimate before booking. Local organisations pay only the travel expenses agreed for their engagement.

Payment: 50% at commencement and 50% on delivery of the findings and leadership workshop.

Additional participants, delivery days, individual coaching or implementation support can be scoped separately.

Start with a discovery call

Book a confidential 30-minute conversation about what you are seeing in your organisation, what you need to understand and whether this diagnostic is the right fit.