What is LDNA
LDNA is a behavioral assessment built for leaders, not HR professionals. Seven dimensions grounded in established behavioral science. Each one captures a different driver of how you naturally lead, and how your role asks you to adapt.
The output isn't a personality type or a color. It's a precise read on the gap between how you're wired and how your current role demands you operate — and an honest look at what that adaptation is costing you in energy, effectiveness, and satisfaction.
Most leaders see it immediately. The "a-ha" isn't "I learned something new about myself." It's "someone finally described something I've always felt but never had language for."
What you'll walk away with
Your natural leadership style across 7 dimensions
How your current role asks you to behave differently
The exact adaptation gap and what it's costing you
Immediate, personalized insight you can use in your next leadership decision
The 7 dimensions
Each dimension captures a distinct driver of natural behavior. The gap between your natural score and your adapted score is where the insight lives.
How much you push, challenge norms, and operate autonomously. High DR leaders move fast, make unilateral calls, and resist oversight. Low DR leaders build consensus and proceed carefully.
How you generate and spend energy through people interaction. High SE leaders are energized by collaboration, relationships, and visibility. Low SE leaders prefer focused, independent work.
How fast or measured you naturally operate. High PA leaders are steady, methodical, and prefer proven processes. Low PA leaders drive urgency, change course quickly, and are energized by rapid iteration.
How much you depend on rules, protocols, and defined process. High SO leaders operate best with clear structure and established guidelines. Low SO leaders excel in ambiguity and resist rigid procedure.
Your natural orientation toward creative problem-solving, novelty, and idea generation. High CB leaders thrive with open-ended challenges. Low CB leaders prefer proven approaches and execution over invention.
How naturally you operate from data, evidence, and analytical rigor. High LA leaders prioritize objectivity, research, and measured decision-making. Low LA leaders decide from intuition and experience.
How you see possibilities, connect patterns, and think at a systems level. High VI leaders are future-oriented, strategic, and energized by complexity. Low VI leaders stay grounded in what's immediate and actionable.
Part of the ELT Scaling Suite
When every leader on your executive team has completed the LDNA, you get a picture that most leadership teams have never had: a map of natural strengths, adaptation gaps, and how each leader's wiring interacts with every other leader's.
That picture drives role design, pairing decisions, succession planning, and the specific coaching focus for each leader. It's the diagnostic layer that makes everything in the ELT Scaling System more precise.
The CEO's LDNA is also the first thing we look at on a Risk Review call. It shows us how your own wiring creates blind spots on the team, and how your natural leadership style is shaping the culture around you.
Free, 6 minutes, immediate results. Shows how your wiring creates the culture around you.
Part of the paid diagnostic. Every leader on the team, mapped together.
A full picture of how the team is wired: strengths, blind spots, role fit, and pairing recommendations.
LDNA becomes your operating standard for new hires, promotions, and team redesigns as the company grows.
6 minutes. Zero cost. Immediate insight.
The LDNA gives you a precise read on your natural leadership style, the adaptation your role demands, and the gap between them. It's the first step in designing a leadership team that actually fits the business you're building.
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