Most executive assessments answer the wrong question.
A behavioral interview, a personality snapshot, a letter grade — they tell you whether a leader is capable in the abstract. They can’t tell you whether this leader can solve the specific challenges your company faces at this stage of its lifecycle. That is why so many executives score well with the traditional tools…and still fail. Beyond just a letter grade or percentage score, the Value Creation Forecast® provides context-driven predictions of value creation accelerators and barriers.
The Primary Problems With Typical Assessments:
Generic frameworks ignore the full lifecycle context. A growth platform demands a fundamentally different leader than a founder situation — and conventional assessments don’t distinguish between the two.
Assessments run disconnected from your deal data. No CIM, no thesis, no value-creation plan considerations. Without your business context, any assessment is just an educated guess.
You get a score, not a forecast. Ratings (B+) and percentiles (87%) grade a leader’s past. They can’t predict value creation across the years that matter most to your return.
- Archetype fit alone breaks down as context shifts. A brilliant founder can become a liability at scale. Adaptive capability decides longevity — and most assessments don’t measure it.
FMG Leading’s Value Creation Forecast® answers the question that is most important to investors: “how do we accelerate returns and mitigate leadership risks?”
What is the Value Creation Forecast®?
The Value Creation Forecast® is more than an assessment – it is a next-generation development tool built to support executive performance. The assessment provides not only a detailed success forecast, but also a clear plan for executives tasked with managing talent to ensure the executive has the team and tools required to win. Each assessment is built with deep understanding of the client context: the investment thesis, organizational culture, strategy, objectives, and a range of scenarios all inform the creation of a detailed role profile with performance benchmarks.
The Value Creation Forecast® weighs how individual candidates would fare in the face of real-world value creation challenges, illuminating unknowns that pose tremendous risks. What’s more, the assessment offers tactical recommendations on how to augment and improve the capabilities of prospective leaders. This ‘user guide’ supports executives and teams tasked with leading rapid change, driving growth strategy and delivering world-class results. Bigger picture, it helps investors speed and smooth their way to profitable exists by effectively managing and de-risking their investments in top talent.
