Pulse taken May 8, 2025

Hey Jordan — here's what your conditions look like right now.

There's genuine strength in your results — and a couple of areas where a small shift could make a real difference. Here's the full picture.

Quick guide: Every score is 1 to 10. Green (7+) means it's fueling you. Orange (below 5.5) means it's draining you. Blue (5.5–6.9) means it's within reach of the green. Your scores are compared against 87 other leaders.

What's giving you energy right now

This is what's giving you energy

Alignment

your values vs. your actions

7.8 / 10

Research consistently shows that when leaders' values and actions align, trust builds naturally — and managers who operate with integrity account for the majority of the variance in team engagement.

Your values and actions are aligned right now — when your team sees consistency between what you say and what you do, trust builds naturally. That kind of consistency is one of the most upstream conditions for team performance. You don't have to do much to create it. You just have to keep doing what you're already doing.

How to protect this

Protect this by checking in regularly on whether the way you're leading still matches what you've committed to. Small drifts are invisible until they're not — a decision made under pressure, a standard quietly lowered. Catching it early is the whole game.

Your Operating Index

72 / 100

Workable right now. You're above the line, but not much margin.

Your Operating Index combines all 7 drivers into one number. It doesn't measure how hard you're working — it measures whether the conditions around you are set up for sustainable leadership. At 72, you're functional and above the healthy range threshold, but a couple of things are actively pulling at you.

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You: 72 vs Other leaders: 65 +7 above avg

Your team picks up on more than you might think — even the things you haven't said out loud. That's not a problem. It's just worth being aware of.

Reading the quadrants below: Your 7 drivers are sorted into four groups. Drivers scoring 7.0+ are fueling you. Drivers below 5.5 are draining you. Drivers between 5.5–6.9 are within reach. The Watch For quadrant shows risk signals to monitor. Every score is out of 10.

DrainingWithin reachFueling

Your Leader Operating Map

Fueling You

Drivers actively giving you energy — protect these

Alignment

7.8/ 10

Following through on what you say you will do

8.2

Ability to have honest conversations when uncomfortable

7.4

Leader avg: 6.6 / 10 +1.2 above avg

Connection

7.3/ 10

Whether leading this team still feels meaningful

8.0

Your ability to be present and engaged under pressure

7.0

Sense of connection and trust with the people you lead

6.9

Leader avg: 6.2 / 10 +1.1 above avg

Draining You

Drivers actively costing you energy — address these first

Fuel

4.8/ 10

Ability to protect time to recover and recharge

3.8

Whether the current pace feels sustainable

4.7

How much stress you absorb on behalf of your team

5.9

"Recovering" and "sustainable pace" are both pulling significantly below your overall Fuel score — both are flagged for attention.

Leader avg: 5.9 / 10 −1.1 below avg

Within Reach

Drivers close to the healthy range — highest leverage

Authenticity

6.9/ 10

How well your personal values align with the work you lead

7.6

Whether your leadership feels genuine or performed

6.7

Safety to be honest about uncertainty with those above you

6.0

The gap between how you appear and how you feel

6.3

Leader avg: 6.3 / 10 +0.6 above avg

Clarity

6.5/ 10

Clarity about priorities and where to focus energy

7.0

How clear success looks in your role right now

6.4

Organizational structure and support for leading well

6.1

Leader avg: 6.3 / 10 +0.2 above avg

Fairness

5.8/ 10

Whether your organization treats you fairly in workload and expectations

6.0

How much organizational dysfunction you absorb alone

5.6

Leader avg: 6.0 / 10 −0.2 below avg

Reciprocity

5.6/ 10

Whether your effort and investment are recognized

5.5

Genuine support from peers and those above you

5.7

Leader avg: 6.0 / 10 −0.4 below avg

Watch For

Risk signals and patterns to monitor · Higher is better

51%

Recovery

Avg 60% −9%

81%

Purpose

Avg 66% +15%

64%

Presence

Avg 63% +1%

Recovery is the signal to watch. Purpose is genuinely strong (81%) — you care about this work and it shows. But recovery at 51% is below average and directly linked to Fuel being in the draining quadrant. High purpose + low recovery is one of the more common patterns in leaders who eventually break quietly.

Pattern Detected

Multiple drivers are reinforcing each other

When several drivers are strained at once, they compound — each one makes the others harder to address. Here's what your combination suggests:

Fuel: When you're not recovering well, it quietly erodes everything else. Judgment gets slower, patience gets shorter, and the clarity you need to lead well becomes harder to access. This isn't a performance problem — it's a conditions problem.

Reciprocity: When effort isn't being recognized or returned, it's very hard to keep giving at the same rate. What looks like a motivation problem from the outside is often an exchange problem — and that's not on you to solve alone.

Fuel4.8 / 10

Reciprocity5.6 / 10

Recovery51%

Purpose81%

Your moves this quarter One from each quadrant

Start here Fuel 4.8 / 10

Find a rhythm that you could sustain for the next three months without burning out. Not an ideal rhythm — a real one. Start by identifying the one thing each week that, if you didn't do it, would actually protect your energy rather than cost it. Then protect that thing first.

Your biggest unlock Authenticity 6.9 / 10

The gap between how you appear and how you feel is real but not wide. One thing that moves this: the next time you're in a meeting where you'd normally stay quiet about uncertainty, say it out loud. Not to your team — to a peer or to someone above you. That's where this driver needs to move first.

Don't lose this Alignment 7.8 / 10

This week, notice one place where the way you're leading has quietly drifted from what you said you'd do. Not a crisis — just a small drift. Name it, adjust it, then tell your team. That act of correction is what keeps Alignment strong even under pressure.

Worth sitting with this quarter

"What's the first thing that gets dropped when you're stretched — and what does that cost you?"

"When was the last time you had a full evening where work didn't follow you home?"

What 90 days of focus could look like Based on your actual question scores

Your Fuel is at 4.8 right now. Two specific questions are pulling it down the hardest. Here's what a realistic 90 days of focus looks like — not perfection, just consistent progress.

Right now

Fuel

4.8 / 10

Draining

90 days

With focused effort

Fuel

6.3 / 10

Within Reach ↑

The specific scores that shift

Ability to protect time to recover and recharge

3.8

→

5.8

Whether the current pace feels sustainable

4.7

→

6.7

What that actually looks like

Over the next 90 days, this means taking at least one full evening per week with no work guilt, and finding a rhythm you could sustain for three more months without burning out. Two shifts. Neither is dramatic — both compound. That moves Fuel from Draining to Within Reach.

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