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Are You Measuring Only Half The System?

You have data on your leaders’ performance. The EPPindex gives you data on their presence.

Most organizations can tell you exactly how a leader is performing.

Revenue. Results. Engagement. Operational metrics. Talent outcomes.

What they often cannot tell you is how that leader is experienced when the stakes are high—when presenting the strategy, answering the difficult question, influencing a decision, leading a town hall, or asking others to follow.

Until now, that part of leadership has largely been described through vague impressions.

The EPPindex gives it structure.

Twenty clearly defined metrics turn executive and professional presence into specific behaviors that can be defined, discussed, and developed, so your team delivers on their full capacity.

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For The Leaders Who Develop Leaders

The EPPindex helps professionals understand how their presence, communication, and leadership behaviors are experienced by others.

During this phase of our development, we are partnering directly with organizations, leadership teams, and talent development professionals to bring the EPPindex into leadership development, coaching, and professional growth initiatives.

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Turn Individual Development Into Organizational Capability

Build a repeatable and scalable system for developing stronger communicators and more effective leaders across your organization.

  • We measure. You develop.
    EPPindex provides the independent evaluations, scores, and reports. Your team uses those insights, along with the EPPIndex book and development tools to focus the work where it matters most.

  • We measure. We help you develop.
    EPPindex provides the independent evaluations, scores, and reports, then facilitates a developmental workshop designed to turn insight into action. Leaders explore their results, focus on the behaviors that matter most, and use the EPPindex book and development tools to create a practical path forward.

  • We measure. We develop. We coach. EPPindex provides the independent evaluations, scores, and reports, then builds on those insights through a facilitated developmental workshop and individualized 1:1 coaching. Leaders use their results, the EPPindex book, and development tools to focus on the behaviors that matter most, apply them to real leadership situations, and accelerate meaningful, sustained growth.

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What we measure

The EPPindex scores twenty observable metrics, each rated 1 to 10, across five sections. The average is your EPPindex.

EPPIndex Evaluation Programs

  • Blind evaluation

    EPPIndex Panel Evaluation

    Your real number from people who don't know you.

    You record short videos answering a set of standard questions. A panel of vetted communication experts, including experienced broadcasters, executive coaches, and communications professors, score all twenty metrics. Each evaluator scores independently and blind to the others. Then, the scores are averaged.

    You receive:

    • Your overall EPPIndex score.

    • A score for each of the twenty metrics and five sections.

    • Your two or three lowest metrics, clearly flagged as your starting point.

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    Quarterly EPPIndex Program

    Presence work is invisible from the inside. The number isn't.

    You won't feel yourself improving. You'll feel awkward and convinced it isn't working right up until the number moves. That's why most clients re-score every ninety days: four evaluations a year, working two or three metrics at a time.

    A motivated leader who focuses this way typically moves 1.5 to 3 points in a year. Each evaluation shows you what moved and which metrics to take on next.

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    EPPIndex for Leadership Teams

    For the leaders who develop leaders.

    You send leaders to communication training and they come back with a binder, a good feeling, and no measurable change. That's because presence was never broken into anything you could track.

    The EPPIndex gives Chief People Officers, L&D leaders, and professional development directors what's been missing:

    • A shared language.

    • A baseline and proof.

    • An outside verdict.

    • A rhythm that scales.

Coaching

A score tells you where. Coaching gets you there.

Our coaches work with you online or in person on your lowest metrics, using your real upcoming presentations, meetings, and media moments. Then your next evaluation shows whether it worked.

How it works

  1. Take the free self-check to see how you rate yourself.

  2. Book a conversation to choose an individual or team evaluation.

  3. Record your videos using our standard questions and filming instructions.

  4. Get your scores from the blind expert panel, with your lowest metrics flagged.

  5. Work two or three metrics, on your own or with a coach.

  6. Re-score in ninety days and watch the number move.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • No. Executive and professional presence isn't about the suit. It's about how clearly your ideas land, how you handle pressure, and whether people believe you. We measure observable behavior, not appearance.

  • People who know you round up. Our evaluators don't know you, don't work with you, and don't confer with each other, so your score reflects how you actually come across.

  • Our founder and team bring more than 100 years of combined expertise in communication, professional development and leadership coaching.

  • No. Almost nobody is weak at all twenty. Almost everybody is weak at two or three, and those few set the ceiling on everything else.

  • Yes. Professional presence is a set of behaviors, and behaviors are learnable at any age, in any personality, at any level of introversion.

  • Collaborative, honest, and straightforward. We're here to guide the process, bring ideas to the table, and keep things moving.

How We Work

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Client Testimonials

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