The Problem Most Organizations Miss
Companies invest millions in organizational transformation. They hire consultants, implement new systems, restructure operations. Yet 60-70% of these transformations still fail.
Why?
They're trying to build adaptive organizations without developing change-resilient individuals first.
The missing piece: You can't have an adaptive organization if the people within it are exhausted, resistant, or overwhelmed by constant change.
This is why I partnered with Comparative Agility to create the Change Resilience Assessment - a free tool that helps individuals understand and strengthen their capacity to thrive through change.
Why I Created This Assessment
After 20+ years guiding enterprise transformations across 22 countries, I've seen a consistent pattern:
Organizations focus on structural changes (new processes, systems, org charts) while ignoring human capacity (energy, resilience, adaptability).
The result? Changes that don't stick. People who are change-fatigued. Resistance that leadership can't understand. Transformations that fail despite "perfect" execution plans.
I realized: Before I could help organizations build adaptive capability at the enterprise level, individuals needed to understand their own change resilience first.
The assessment emerged from a simple question: What makes some people thrive through constant change while others burn out?
The answer isn't personality. It's not about being "good with change" or not. It's about four specific, learnable dimensions of resilience.
The Four Dimensions (What Makes You Resilient)
The assessment measures your capacity across four critical areas:
1. Growth Mindset & Learning
Do you see change as an opportunity to learn or a threat to avoid? Can you seek feedback without defensiveness? Do you follow through on development goals or abandon them when things get difficult?​
3. Adaptability & Agility
How quickly can you adjust when plans change? Are you comfortable experimenting with new approaches? Can you function effectively even when you don't have all the answers?
2. Self-Management Under Pressure
When chaos hits, can you stay calm and focused? Do you manage your energy sustainably or burn out trying to control everything? Can you distinguish what's within your control from what isn't?
4. Resilience & Leadership Influence
When setbacks happen, how quickly do you bounce back? Can you learn from failures without dwelling on them? Do you help others through change or does your stress spread to those around you?
These aren't personality traits. They're capabilities you can develop.
Why the Assessment Is on Comparative Agility's Platform
You might wonder: Why isn't this on my website? Why partner with Comparative Agility?
Three reasons:
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Best-in-Class Assessment Technology: Comparative Agility is the world's largest agility assessment platform. They've built sophisticated assessment infrastructure that I couldn't replicate on my own - personalized recommendations, data analytics, user dashboards, continuous improvement tracking.
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Broader Reach & Impact: By hosting the assessment on their platform, it's available to their global community of professionals, teams, and organizations. More people can benefit from it than if it lived only on my website.
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Natural Integration Path: Many organizations using Comparative Agility's team and organizational assessments discover they also need individual resilience development. This assessment fills that gap. And individuals who discover they need organizational infrastructure can find my Adaptive Capability Assessment.
The partnership benefits everyone:
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Individuals get a free, high-quality assessment tool
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Comparative Agility expands their capability offerings
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I can reach more people with resilience-building tools while focusing my consulting on organizational capability work
Bottom line: I care more about impact than website traffic. This partnership lets the assessment reach more people who need it.
How to Use This Assessment
If You're an Individual Professional:
Take the assessment to:
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Understand your current resilience strengths and development areas
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Get personalized strategies based on YOUR specific ratings
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Identify practices you can start implementing immediately
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Track your resilience development over time (retake every 3-6 months)
This is for you if:
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You're navigating constant organizational change and feeling exhausted
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You want to understand why some changes feel harder than others
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You're preparing for a major transition and want to build capacity first
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You're experiencing change fatigue and need sustainable strategies
If You're a Leader:
Use the assessment with your team to:
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Create shared language about what resilience means
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Understand collective patterns (Where is the team strong? Where do we struggle?)
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Identify who might need extra support during upcoming changes
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Design development activities that address actual gaps
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Build psychological safety around discussing change challenges
Suggested team approach:
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Take it yourself first and share your results openly (models vulnerability)
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Invite team to take it individually (5-7 minutes each)
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Create safe space for voluntary sharing in team meeting
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Discuss: What patterns do we see? Where can we support each other?
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Develop team practices based on collective gaps
This is for you if:
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Your team is facing significant change and you want to assess readiness
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You see signs of change fatigue but don't know where to intervene
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You want to build resilience proactively before the next transformation
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You're committed to supporting your team's wellbeing through transition
If You're an Organization:
The assessment reveals individual patterns. But if you're seeing systemic issues, you need organizational infrastructure.
Signs you need more than individual assessment:
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Multiple teams showing similar resilience challenges
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Individual development efforts aren't translating to transformation success
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You're spending €500K+ annually on external change consultants
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You're facing 3+ simultaneous transformations with capacity maxed
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Changes don't stick beyond 3-6 months despite "successful" implementations
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High change fatigue and resistance across the organization
If these sound familiar, you don't have an individual resilience problem. You have an organizational capability gap.
The Bridge: Individual to Organizational Capability
Here's what I've learned after two decades of transformation work:
Individual resilience is necessary but not sufficient.
You can have the most resilient individuals in the world, but if your organization lacks:
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Governance for managing change portfolio capacity
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Systems for sensing threats and opportunities early
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Internal capability instead of consultant dependency
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Cultural mechanisms that make adaptation sustainable
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Leadership that effectively sponsors transformation
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Methodology for executing and embedding change
...your transformations will still fail at the organizational level.
This is why I developed the Adaptive Capability Assessment - to evaluate organizational infrastructure across six dimensions that determine whether your company can truly adapt continuously.
When to Move from Individual to Organizational Assessment
The Individual Assessment Shows You:
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Personal strengths and development areas
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Individual coping strategies
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Where people are struggling with change
The Organizational Assessment Shows You:
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Systemic capability gaps across six dimensions
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Why changes aren't taking root at the enterprise level
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What infrastructure needs building for sustainable adaptation
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How to reduce consultant dependency while improving success rates
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ROI potential of building internal capability
Real example:
A manufacturing company had 50 managers take the Change Resilience Assessment. 70% scored low on "Self-Management Under Pressure."
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Their first thought: "We need stress management training for managers."
The real problem (revealed by organizational assessment): No portfolio management meant 15 simultaneous transformations were running. Change capacity was at 180% of sustainable levels. Managers weren't "bad at stress" - they were drowning in organizational dysfunction.
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The fix: Build governance infrastructure, rationalize portfolio, establish capacity management. Manager resilience scores improved dramatically (without any individual training.)
The lesson: Sometimes what looks like individual weakness is actually systemic failure.
The Adaptive Capability Assessment (Organizational Level)
When your organization is ready to assess capability infrastructure:
What It Evaluates (6 Dimensions):
1. Assessment & Sensing Capability
Can you detect threats and opportunities early? Do you assess readiness before launching changes? Can you make informed go/no-go decisions?
2. Infrastructure & Governance
Do you have structures to coordinate change effectively? Can you manage portfolio capacity? Do you prioritize strategically?
3. Capability Building & Development
Are you building internal expertise or staying consultant-dependent? Do you have change champions? Is methodology embedded?
4. Cultural Embedding & Behavioral Systems
Do changes stick or do people revert to old ways? Is there psychological safety? Do rewards align with adaptive behaviors?
5. Leadership & Sponsorship Capability
Can leaders effectively sponsor transformation? Do they model adaptive behavior? Is there pipeline for developing adaptive leaders?
6. Execution & Sustainment Systems
Do you have proven methodology for implementing change? Do you track adoption? Do changes sustain beyond 12 months?
What You Get:
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Comprehensive maturity assessment across all 6 dimensions
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Evidence-based diagnosis of why changes aren't succeeding
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Root cause analysis of systemic capability gaps
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Prioritized 3-year roadmap for building infrastructure
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Business case framework showing typical ROI patterns
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90-day action plan to start strengthening immediately
Timeline: 4-6 weeks from kickoff to roadmap delivery
Investment: €18,000 - €28,000 (based on organization size)
Typical outcomes after building capability:
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Transformation success rate: 60% → 85-90%
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Sustained adoption: 40% → 80%+
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Time-to-adapt: 40% faster
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Consultant costs: 50-65% reduction
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Internal team leads 70%+ of initiatives
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Your Next Step Depends on Where You Are
I'm an individual wanting to develop personal resilience
Start here: Take the free Change Resilience Assessment. Get personalized strategies. Implement immediately.
I'm a leader wanting to assess my team
Start here: Take the assessment yourself first. Then use it with your team to understand collective patterns and build support strategies.
Want a facilitated team workshop? Contact me for pricing
I think my organization needs capability infrastructure
Start here: Schedule a free 1-hour consultation. We'll discuss whether an organizational assessment makes sense for your situation.
I'm not sure which path I need
Start here: Book a conversation. I'll help you figure out whether you need individual development, team support, or organizational infrastructure building.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is this assessment free?
I created it because I believe individual resilience is foundational to organizational capability. Making it freely available means more people can benefit. My consulting focus is on organizational capability building - this assessment is a tool that helps individuals whether or not they ever work with me.
Why should I trust an assessment on someone else's platform?
Comparative Agility is the world's largest agility assessment platform, trusted by organizations globally. Their infrastructure is far superior to what I could build independently. The content and methodology are mine, developed from 20+ years of transformation experience. The platform just makes it accessible and user-friendly.
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Will you try to sell me something after I take the assessment?
No. The assessment is genuinely free with no strings attached. You'll receive your results and recommendations immediately. No follow-up emails unless you opt in. No sales pitch.
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What's the difference between this and the organizational assessment?
This measures individual capacity across 4 dimensions and takes 5-7 minutes. The organizational assessment evaluates enterprise infrastructure across 6 dimensions through interviews, document review, and data analysis over 4-6 weeks. Different tools for different purposes.
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Can my company buy licenses for employees?
The individual assessment is free for everyone - no licenses needed. If you want organizational deployment with facilitation, team workshops, or integration with capability building initiatives, contact me to discuss.
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I scored low. Does that mean I'm bad at change?
Absolutely not. Low scores aren't judgments - they're starting points. Resilience is learnable. The assessment gives you specific strategies for strengthening each dimension based on where you are now. Everyone has different starting points and different development journeys.
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How often should I retake it?
Many people retake it every 3-6 months to track development. Your resilience will fluctuate based on what's happening in your life and work. Periodic assessment helps you see progress and identify when you need to refocus on specific areas.