From Product Ownership to Business Leadership

Four days of summit, turned into a habit.

An adaptive assessment that finds out what you actually took away from the PM Leadership Summit — then keeps working on the gaps. It measures 23 competencies across the four days, compares how you rate yourself against how you perform, and finishes with a five-minute executive briefing you actually draft — plus a 30-day action plan built from your own results.

Start the assessment How it works About 20 minutes for a first profile. Your progress is saved.

What it covers

DAY 1

Deconstructing the Bias

Role clarity — own, influence, enable, escalate. Senior-level bias. Style flexing and stress defaults. Lifecycle ownership. Diagnosing cross-functional friction.

DAY 2

The North Star

Customer outcomes and lifecycle value. Root-cause discovery. Needs-based segmentation. Defendable value and proof. Portfolio, lifecycle and risk choices.

DAY 3

The Art of Influence

Influence without authority. Decision rights. Conflict and tradeoffs under pressure. Evidence quality. NPI readiness. Escalation. The executive ask.

DAY 4

Turning Strategy into Results

Business case rigour. Portfolio investment decisions and opportunity cost. Signal versus noise. Defending a recommendation. Commitment and follow-through.

How it works

ADAPTIVE

It aims at 75%

Every competency holds a probability distribution over your mastery. The engine samples from it to decide what to probe next, then picks the question you have roughly a three-in-four chance of getting right — the band where learning gain is highest. Too easy teaches nothing; too hard teaches nothing.

HONEST

Self-view versus performance

You rate your own behaviour before you are tested on it. Where the two disagree is the finding. Day 1 put it plainly: the gap between self-view and how others experience you is the real signal — and over-rated competencies are weighted up in your action plan, because that is where blind spots live.

DURABLE

It comes back

Items you get right return on a stretching interval; items you miss return quickly. Strong competencies stay in rotation at higher difficulty rather than dropping out. The point is not a score on one afternoon — it is what survives to the next portfolio conversation.

Nothing here is a black box. Every question shows why it was chosen, and the Engine tab exposes the live parameters — your estimated mastery, the uncertainty around it, and the score each competency got this turn. If the engine is wrong about you, you can see exactly where.

Using it

  1. Sign in with your Baker Hughes address

    Access is restricted to @bakerhughes.com. You will be asked for your email and sent a one-time code — no new password to remember, no account to create.

  2. Work through the calibration phase

    The first stretch mixes self-ratings with questions across all 23 competencies, so it can find your shape before it starts pushing. Rate yourself honestly — an inflated self-rating produces a more useful result than a modest one, because the gap is the point. The E-Colors tab is a good first stop too: four minutes to chart your working style, its shadow, and your under-pressure default.

  3. Answer in short sittings

    Around twenty minutes gets you a first profile, and the Train screen shows exactly how many questions remain to reach it. Coming back for ten minutes a week is worth more than one long session — spaced repetition is doing real work between visits.

  4. Write the applied answers properly

    Some items ask you to write a real one-sentence mandate, leadership ask, or tradeoff log entry against a live situation you own. You then score yourself against a checklist drawn from the summit material. These carry the most weight — and they are the ones that change how the next review actually goes.

  5. Read the capability profile

    The radar shows mastery per competency with a credible interval — the band narrows as the engine gets more confident. The calibration table shows where your self-view and your performance part company.

  6. Finish with the executive briefing

    The capstone. Once the executive-communication track is measured, the Exec briefing tab hands you the summit's own six panels — customer evidence, strategic choice, risk, business impact, decision needed, leadership ask — and you draft a real five-minute update against a live decision you own. It exports as Markdown and self-checks against the Day 4 review board weighting.

  7. Generate and export the action plan

    Three highest-leverage gaps, two strengths worth sharpening, each with a concrete practice tied to a summit artifact, plus a commitment card in the Day 4 format. Download it as Markdown and take it to your one-to-one.

Your data

WHERE IT LIVES

In your browser, and nowhere else

Answers, mastery estimates and action plans are stored locally in the browser you use. There is no database, no analytics, no telemetry, and nothing is transmitted anywhere. Nobody — including whoever ran the summit — can see your results unless you send them.

WHAT THAT MEANS

Two practical consequences

Switching browser or machine starts you fresh, so use Export and Import to move progress across. And clearing site data clears your history — export first if it matters. Exports are plain JSON; the action plan exports as Markdown.

Questions

How long does it take to get a meaningful profile?

Thirty-five questions — around 20 minutes — measures every one of the 23 competencies at least once. Twelve of those are quick self-ratings. The Train screen counts down exactly how many you have left, and confidence keeps improving after that: the credible interval on the radar visibly narrows as you answer more.

Is this a test I can fail?

No, and there is no pass mark. Results are stored only in your own browser and are not reported to anyone. The engine is deliberately built to spend time where you are weakest, so a session that feels hard is the engine working correctly, not a verdict.

Where do the questions come from?

All 110 items are drawn from the summit's own material — the four day decks including speaker notes, the participant handout packs, and the programme agenda with the Executive Review Board scoring rubric. Every item cites the slide or handout it came from, so you can go back to the source.

Why does it keep asking about things I am already good at?

By design, and you can change it. Strong competencies stay in rotation at higher difficulty so they sharpen rather than decay. The Engine tab has a dial that shifts the balance between building gaps and sharpening strengths — set it wherever you want.

Can I focus on just one day's material?

Yes. The Engine tab has a domain filter that restricts questions to a single day. Useful if you are heading into a portfolio review and want to drill Day 4 specifically.

What are E-Colors?

The Day 1 personality-diversity lens: four colours — Red the Doer, Yellow the Socializer, Blue the Relater, Green the Thinker — mapped on two axes, task ↔ people and action ↔ information. Everyone is a blend of all four; your primary and secondary form one of 12 styles. The app's E-Colors tab has a four-minute self-assessment that charts your blend, names the shadow and stress default that come with it, and shows how to flex to each function's likely colour. It is a lens, not a label — the formal 15-minute PDI is at equilibria.com.

Something is wrong, or an item is badly worded.

Each item shows its source citation at the bottom of the feedback. Note the item id from the Engine tab's answer history and send it on — the bank is a plain data structure and items can be corrected or added without touching the engine.