The Leadership Assessment That Examines Your Situation—Not Your Personality
Leaders see the big picture with the Situational Mindsets Indicator.
Context Counts
The Situational Mindsets Indicator™ (SMI) is a unique, research-driven tool designed to improve critical thinking, assess current circumstances, identify options, gain agreement for implementation, and deliver results.
Awareness drives wise decisions. The SMI identifies how to leverage opportunities for stellar results.a
The evidence-based SMI navigates changing circumstances, sharpens judgment, and produces better outcomes. Complexity creates choices. Situational Analysis reveals what must take priority.
What are Situational Mindsets™️?
Situational Mindsets examine the six vital components in every project and organization. Together, mindsets create a clear, complete view of what action matters most now. It develops leaders' ability to juggle competing demands.
Situational Mindsets:
Filters that collect information for analysis
Scan your environment to reveal facts, trends, and opportunities
Examine conditions to identify key priority
Execute successful change
Situational Mindsets develop leaders' ability to identify opportunities, adapt quickly, and respond wisely to changing conditions. By combining critical thinking, contextual awareness, and mental agility, leaders transform complexity into opportunity.
Situational analysis assessments help leaders pinpoint key organizational priorities.
Six Lenses for Navigating Change
Situational Mindset Indicator (SMI) Advantage
Recognize how change and critical thinking leverage opportunities for stellar results.
Complexity creates choices. Situational Analysis identifies what changes need to happen first.
Situational analysis assessments help leaders pinpoint key priorities. It develops leader ability to make wise decisions that gain support.
Inventing
Concern: New products/services, creating new collaborations, and adding new features
Catalyzing
Concern: Sales, market share and position, customer service, and customer loyalty
Developing
Concern: Organizational structure, policies, accountabilities and integrated systems
Performing
Concern: Efficiencies, quality, safety, workflow and profitability
Protecting
Concern: Talent development, retention, high-performing culture
Challenging
Concern: Emerging trends and risks, potential alliances, and longevity
Get started with the Situational Mindset Indicator.
Identify opportunities, avoid costly blunders, and make wiser decisions today. Organizations don't need better execution until they're sure they're doing the right thing.
The Power of Situational Mindsets
The SMI doesn't tell leaders who they are—it helps them understand their current circumstances. It helps leaders:
Lead Change with Confidence – Assess changing realities, anticipate resistance, and identify the priorities that ensure successful, lasting change.
See What Others Miss – Analyze your situation through six distinct perspectives to uncover hidden opportunities, emerging risks, and critical blind spots.
Transform Conflict into Commitment – Reduce resistance, strengthen collaboration, and create buy-in.
Adapt Faster with Mental Elasticity – Help leaders shift gears as conditions evolve and opportunities emerge.
SMI analysis ensures that we separate the noise from concentrating on the right results today. Unlike other leadership assessments, it isn't about style or competencies; it examines current realities.
Understand how to separate critical issues from all the noise to make wiser decisions.
Developing Leadership Wisdom
Expand perspectives, strengthen critical thinking, improve collaboration, and navigate conflict more effectively with practical, situation-based insights.
Our SMI Research
31%
Rely on 2 Mindsets
45%
Rely on 1 Mindset
98%
Can overlook multiple critical perspectives
22%
Rely on 3 Mindsets
Our research shows that 45% of leaders rely on a single business mindset, 31% on two, and 22% on three. This means that only 2% consistently evaluate all mindsets, leaving 98% at risk of missing critical perspectives or developing mental silos that impact analysis and decisions.
The Situational Mindset Indicator (SMI) is highly reliable (coefficient of .91) and demonstrates strong face and content validity. This research-backed tool helps improve decision-making effectiveness and organizational performance.
Effective decision-making demands a panoramic understanding of changing conditions.
Our Services
Our services are designed to help you increase your critical thinking skills, environmental awareness, and your Situational Acumen so you can drive better results.
Situational Mindset Indicator
A unique tool designed to facilitate better decision-making for better results.
Consulting
Take advantage of our guidance and support that leads you to a better position.
Speaking
Learn about the benefits of better decisions, critical thinking, change execution, and more.
Programs
Processes and practical exercises to engage you with Situational Acumen.
