The RIDE Forecast
The RIDE Forecast

It's a relief, finally knowing which leadership moments are yours.

Only 5 minutes to get a startlingly specific reading of which leadership moments you're built for, which ones will always cost you effort, and the kind of co-leader who fills the rest.

Take the forecast → 28 questions · 5 minutes · free

Four leadership moments.

Every team's work moves through four thresholds, in roughly the same order. Each one has to be reached for the work to move forward, and each one asks for a different kind of leader to get the team across. Few people are built to take a team across all four naturally. Most lead two of them well and stretch on the rest. The RIDE Forecast tells you which two are yours.

R
Release
Decisive leaders who commit a team to act before the path is fully clear.
in practice · founding a venture, launch decisions, a strategy pivot, the moment a plan becomes action
I
Integration
Steady leaders who turn one good outcome into the team's new standard.
in practice · post-launch consolidation, scaling what worked, succession, codifying a playbook
D
Dissolution
Honest leaders who can call time on what's stopped working, and bring the team with them.
in practice · sunsetting a product, layoffs done right, killing a project, saying no to bad-fit deals
E
Exposure
Brave leaders who take a team's work out into the world and stand behind it.
in practice · product launches, customer pitches, fundraising, going public with the work
POTENTIALITY CONSTRUCTION ENCOUNTER CONSERVATION Inspiring Visionary Directive Driving Engaging Commanding Supporting Protecting
An example profile · Visionary R

Your report includes a chart like this one. The black curve shows your strengths across the eight leadership styles. The red dashed curve shows what one of the four phases of work is asking for. In this example, that phase is Encounter, the part of the work where a team meets its customers and the world.

Where the dashed curve sits outside the black, the phase asks for more than the leader brings. On this profile, Encounter is a real stretch on Engaging and Commanding. Section 3 of your report does the same comparison for all four phases, so you can see where you fit and where you'll want a co-leader.

What a RIDE profile looks like.

Every leader brings a different mix of the eight styles. Here are four common shapes a leader can land on. Yours will look like one of these, or somewhere between.

RIDE profile · R + I
Visionary R
home regime · Potentiality
A long-arc thinker who names what the team is becoming. Comfortable working years ahead of where the team is now.
RIDE profile · R + D
Directive R
home regime · Construction
A structural builder who sets the system and assigns the roles. Pushes work to completion without losing sight of the plan.
RIDE profile · E + I
Engaging I
home regime · Encounter
A live-room leader who lights up customers, town halls, and on-stage moments. Reads the room before saying a word.
RIDE profile · R + D
Protecting D
home regime · Conservation
A standards-keeper who defends what's already been built. Catches drift before it becomes damage.

What's in your report.

Four specific findings, with your scores and a plain-English read. The full report is yours to keep, export, and share.

01
Your RIDE profile

The two moments you're built to take a team through. example · R + I · commit and lock in

02
Your primary style and home regime

Your strongest of the eight leadership styles, and the phase of work you lead from most naturally. example · Visionary R · 0.92 · home regime Potentiality

03
A forecast for each phase of work

Your fit on each of the four phases, and the specific styles each phase asks for that are thin in you. example · Construction 0.62 · biggest stretch Driving, 40 points beyond reach

04
The co-leader who fills your gaps

The founding-team pairing whose strengths cover what yours don't. Concrete role types to hire for or partner with. example · pair with a Driving R who carries the deadlines your arc points at

Find your RIDE profile.

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