Leadership Delta — Tools¶
Tools for closing the Leadership Delta — the gap between current leadership capability and what AI-era leadership demands. Most assess the conditions that enable leadership behavior change, not the leader in isolation.
Live tools¶
These are built and available now. Click any to take the diagnostic.
Personal Context Passport¶
Portable, auditable AI context artifact. A guided interview produces downloadable Markdown, JSON, and an agent brief. Browser-only, no data stored in v0.
ai-tool · Structured self-authored artifact · Not psychometric · v0.1 · Active Modeling¶
Creative Climate Diagnostic (Ekvall)¶
20 questions, 10 dimensions.
diagnostic · Research-grounded · Ekvall (1996) · Instrument validation pending · v0.3 · Creative Cultivation¶
RIST Trust Diagnostic¶
32 questions. Over/under-trust detection.
diagnostic · Research-grounded · Original operationalization · Construct validation planned · v0.3 · Trust Calibration¶
Causal Loop Diagram Builder¶
Map feedback loops. R and B loops auto-detected.
interactive-tool · Systems thinking tool · Meadows (2008) · Educational / exploratory · Systems Orchestration¶
Leadership Delta Scoresheet¶
Score one or up to 4 leadership teams across 7 Leadership Delta dimensions — 3 indicators each, 1-5 scale, total 105. Produces radar chart overlay, dimension bar chart, heat map, and downloadable reports per team plus cross-team comparison. Browser-only, no data stored.
ai-tool · Consultant-grade diagnostic · AI Leadership Delta™ · Original — Gibbons 2026 · v0.1 · Adaptive Adoption¶
Coming soon¶
These are next in the build queue. Greyed cards visible on the live site.
Leader AI Usage Audit¶
How visibly does the leader use AI? Walk-the-talk measure.
assessment · Active Modeling
SCARF Threat Diagnostic¶
Which psychological threat drives resistance?
diagnostic · Creative Cultivation
Friction Audit¶
Map every friction point. Which can you kill?
canvas · Friction Courage
In development¶
Active build, not yet visible on the live site.
- Scenario Planning Canvas — 2×2 uncertainty matrix for AI futures. (
canvas, Strategic Imagination) - Bureaucracy Buster Scorecard — How many approvals to pilot an AI tool? (
assessment, Friction Courage) - Stakeholder Trust Map — Who trusts the initiative? Heat-mapped. (
interactive-tool, Trust Calibration) - Influence Network Heatmap — Formal vs informal power. Heat-mapped. (
interactive-tool, Systems Orchestration)
Long list¶
Tools we intend to build (planned) or are evaluating (speculative). See the full long list for cross-domain view.
- Future-Back Strategy Template — Start from 2028, work backward. (planned · Strategic Imagination)
- Modeling Behavior Gap Analysis — Behaviors you want vs. behaviors you demonstrate. (planned · Active Modeling)
- From GTD to GSD — The AI Productivity System — GTD reimagined for humans managing AI agents. (planned · Active Modeling)
- Build Your Chief of Staff in Cowork — Step-by-step guide to creating a CoS agent. (planned · Active Modeling)
- Innovation Blockers Diagnostic — What's killing innovation? (planned · Creative Cultivation)
- Permission-to-Fail Assessment — How your org handles failure: punish, ignore, tolerate, or celebrate? (planned · Friction Courage)
- Trust Repair Protocol — Step-by-step repair after a trust breach. (planned · Trust Calibration)
- Ethical Leadership Self-Assessment — Do you model ethical AI use? (planned · Ethical Stewardship)
- Feedback Loop Identifier — Find reinforcing and balancing loops in your adoption system. (planned · Systems Orchestration)
- Polarity Map for AI Adoption — Tensions that can't be solved, only managed. (planned · Systems Orchestration)
- Conditions Audit — Diagnostic assessing whether the six organisational conditions necessary for the Leadership Delta to close are present. Sponsorship, reinforcement, structural enablers, peer norms, time/space, consequence alignment. (planned · cross-pillar)
- AI Opportunity Scanner — Process-by-process: where could AI create value? (speculative · Strategic Imagination)
- Leader-Team AI Alignment Check — Perception gap: does the team see the leader's AI stance the way the leader does? (speculative · Active Modeling)
- Experimentation Permission Audit — Do people feel permission to experiment with AI? (speculative · Creative Cultivation)
- Values-AI Alignment Audit — Map stated values against AI practices. (speculative · Ethical Stewardship)
- Stakeholder Network Analyzer — Identify brokers, bottlenecks, isolated clusters. (speculative · Systems Orchestration)