Energy Leadership™ Index (ELI) Assessment
A Practical Way to Understand How You Respond to Stress, Change, and Uncertainty
The Energy Leadership™ Index (ELI) assessment offers a clear, grounded look at how you show up when life or work feels demanding. Rather than measuring personality or traits, the ELI focuses on how your mindset and energy shape your reactions, decisions, and leadership in real situations, especially under pressure.
People often turn to the ELI during periods of burnout, transition, or prolonged uncertainty. When familiar strategies stop working and energy feels harder to access, the assessment helps make sense of what is happening beneath the surface. It gives language to patterns that are often felt but difficult to name.
The ELI is not about labeling or fixing. It creates awareness so you have more choice in how you respond and move forward.
What the ELI Reveals and Why It Matters
The ELI shows how energy is being used across different situations, including everyday demands and moments of stress. It highlights patterns that influence how you think, communicate, make decisions, and carry responsibility.
Through the assessment, people often gain insight into how they respond under pressure, where energy is being drained, and which reactions have become automatic. It also brings clarity to how leadership shows up through behavior, not title or role.
This is especially valuable during transitions, when old ways of operating no longer fit but new ones are still forming. The ELI helps bring clarity without requiring certainty.
How the ELI Works
The ELI process begins with a 70-question online assessment that takes about 20 minutes to complete. This is followed by a 90-minute one-on-one debrief session where we review your results together in depth.
Your results are mapped across seven levels of energy, which reflect different ways of responding to challenges, stress, and opportunity. You also receive your Average Resonating Level, or ARL. The ARL is a single number that reflects how you typically engage with life and work. Most people fall between an ARL of 2.5 and 3.5, and even small shifts in this range can lead to meaningful changes in clarity, resilience, and capacity.
For those who want a broader perspective, the ELI 360 includes additional feedback from colleagues, peers, or direct reports, along with a longer debrief session. This provides insight into how your energy is experienced by others, alongside your own internal view.
When the ELI Is a Helpful Place to Start
The ELI is often helpful for people experiencing burnout, navigating life or career transitions, facing complex decisions, or living with sustained uncertainty. It can also support those who want a clearer understanding of how they lead themselves and others under pressure.
The assessment can be taken on its own or integrated into a longer coaching relationship. Many people choose it as a starting point because it provides a shared language and a grounded foundation for understanding what is happening before deciding how to move forward.
If you are curious whether the ELI or ELI 360 is the right fit, we can talk it through together.
"Everything is energy and that is all there is to it."
— Albert Einstein