7
Competency domains
4
Maturity levels
84
Questions (Full)
The Maturity Assessment gives you a structured picture of where you are strong, where your next level of growth lives, and a development roadmap built from your actual scores, not a generic curriculum.
Whether you are still discovering the Chief of Staff role, actively developing your capabilities, or ready and just missing the proof point, the Chief of Staff Maturity Assessment shows you exactly where you stand. The Chief of Staff Launchpad helps you close the gap: co-lead a real project with expert support and create the proof point that makes the conversation about the title real.
84 questions. 7 domains. 4 levels. A score that tells you not just what you know, but where you operate and what your next level of development actually requires.
The Seven Domains of Chief of Staff Excellence
Emotional Intelligence
Business Operating System
Continuous Improvement & Automation
Project & Portfolio Management
Change Management
Strategy Planning & Deployment
AI Enablement
The Four Levels of Chief of Staff Maturity
The Practitioner
Building the expertise and discipline the role demands.
The Operator
Driving the alignment, decisions, and performance the business depends on.
The Influencer
Shaping how the organization thinks and moves.
The Architect
Designing the enterprise systems that bridge strategy and execution.
Most aspiring Chiefs of Staff are stuck not because they lack skills, but because they lack a proof point. Without a real deliverable at Chief of Staff altitude, it is hard to make the case for the title. The Launchpad creates that opportunity and that moment.
For your Principal
A real project gets done through a fractional Chief of Staff engagement. A high-priority initiative that has been sitting without the right owner gets architected and delivered with fractional Chief of Staff expertise leading it. The principal invests in their team's development and gets a concrete outcome in return.
For your Career
You co-lead the engagement as the operational partner to the fractional Chief of Staff. You are not a contributor, but a full co-lead learning in real time how to think, structure, and execute at Chief of Staff altitude. When the project is done, you have a result to point to. Your principal watched you do it. The case for the title is no longer abstract.
How it works
01
Scoping & Baseline
Identify the right project and assess the aspiring Chief of Staff's current maturity across relevant domains.
›02
Active Co-Delivery
Lead the project together. The aspiring Chief of Staff learns in real time at Chief of Staff altitude with real stakes.
›03
Results & Proof Point
Deliverable complete. The aspiring Chief of Staff has the result to point to. The case for the title is now real.
›Chief of Staff Academy is the only platform that starts from a diagnostic. We measure where you are before prescribing where to go. Everything is built from the same 7-domain framework that defines what Chief of Staff excellence actually looks like at each level of organizational altitude: the assessment, the development engagements, and the Launchpad.
Measure first, develop second
The assessment is not the end game, it is the starting point, and the foundation of every development conversation we have.
Learn by doing
The development engagements and Launchpad are built around real work, real challenges, real outcomes.
Build your case for the Chief of Staff role
At the end of an engagement, you proved you can operate at Chief of Staff level and you have a tangible result to point to.