Ownership Compass™
Ownership Compass™ helps you identify where you are being held back and what you need to address first.
Discover where to start
The problem doesn't always show up in the bottom line.
Your business can sell, operate, and grow while limiting your freedom, draining your energy, and pulling you away from your ambition. Ownership Compass™ shows you exactly where this is happening so you know what to address first.
The Six Dimensions
The Ownership Compass™ evaluates six aspects of your relationship with your business to show you which one needs attention.
Ambition Alignment
Is your business still aligned with what you want to build, protect, or transform today?
Autonomy and Choice
How much actual leverage do you have to choose, pause, delegate, or change direction?
Return on Energy
Does your business give you back energy, clarity, and possibility, or is it mostly wearing you down?
Growth on Your Terms
Does scaling expand your options, or is it leading you toward a company you no longer want to run?
Sustainable Value
Does your business generate value without being overly dependent on your presence, your decisions, or your energy?
The Owner's Agency
Can you change the system you built, or do you feel like the business is making the decisions for you?
A preliminary reading of how your business is working for you.
• Your profile across the six dimensions.
Ownership Compass™ is free and designed to deliver value on its own.
Start with Ownership Compass™
As an owner, we offer you an individual guidance process to develop key Ownership™ capabilities and redesign your relationship with your company.
Dynamic Clarity
The ability to define what your business needs to deliver to your life today, while retaining the flexibility to evolve without getting trapped in a past version of yourself.
Decision and Design
The deliberate control to set firm boundaries against operational demands and actively redesign roles, structures, and workflows when they no longer serve you.
Structural Detachment
The freedom to separate your personal identity from daily business metrics, allowing you to transform or abandon an operating model without losing sight of who you are.
The Ownership Method™
Is this a personality test?
No. Ownership Compass™ looks at six dimensions of the current relationship between an owner and their business. It is not designed to define your personality or lock you into a permanent category.
What will I receive upon completion?
You will receive your profile across the six dimensions, a brief explanation of each result, and email access to review them at any time. You will have a clear starting point to recognize where your business is working for you and where it might be holding you back.
Will the result tell me exactly what to do?
The free result provides an initial snapshot. Your priority depends on your company's context, your goals, and the life you want to build.
What happens to my responses?
Your responses are used to generate your results and to improve the institute's research. Please consult our Privacy Notice to learn how we protect and use your information.
Privacy: We will use your responses to generate and send your results. Please refer to our Privacy Notice to learn how we protect and use your information.
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