Begin with how you lead.
The R.I.S.E. Index™ is a leadership assessment grounded in the Renfaut™ Praxis Paradigm. It helps leaders understand how their everyday practices align with equity-centered transformation.
A leadership profile, not a personality test.
The R.I.S.E. Index™ focuses on leadership practice. It helps leaders reflect on how they see systems, engage uncertainty, act with courage, shift organizational conditions, and sustain renewal over time.
Participants receive a personalized Leadership Profile that translates assessment results into practical insight and next steps for growth.
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Insight you can use.
Your Leadership Profile gives you a structured way to understand strengths, growth opportunities, and practical next steps across the Renfaut™ Praxis Paradigm.
Five Principle Scores
A snapshot of how your leadership practices align across the five Renfaut™ principles.
Fifteen Practice Facets
Detailed feedback across the leadership practices that shape transformative action.
Leadership Strengths
Areas where your current practice shows meaningful capacity for equity-centered leadership.
Growth Opportunities
Developmental areas that can deepen reflexivity, courage, and systems-level practice.
Reflection Prompts
Questions that help you translate assessment results into more intentional leadership practice.
Practical Recommendations
Next steps for individual growth, coaching, or participation in the Leadership Lab™.
Five principles. Fifteen facets.
The R.I.S.E. Index™ measures leadership practice through the five principles of the Renfaut™ Praxis Paradigm.
See systems clearly.
Systemic Literacy, Positionality Literacy, Truth-Telling Capacity.
Imagine new possibilities.
Nonlinear Thinking, Identity Flex in Context, Emergent Humility.
Act with courage.
Interruptive Practice, Solidarity Praxis, Dialogic Disruption.
Shift conditions.
Visionary Praxis, Systems Reorientation, Transformative Policy Praxis.
Sustain renewal.
Regenerative Orientation, Collective Centering, Return to Relation.
From assessment to action.
The R.I.S.E. Index™ is designed to be a starting point for growth, reflection, coaching, and organizational development.
Use the R.I.S.E. Index™ with teams.
Organizations can use the R.I.S.E. Index™ as the entry point for collective leadership development, team learning, and the Renfaut Leadership Lab™.
When used with groups, the assessment can support shared sensemaking, collective reflection, and a deeper understanding of how leadership practices are distributed across a team.
Best used for
Leadership teams, executive cohorts, nonprofit organizations, foundations, school districts, higher education, healthcare, government, and community-based organizations seeking equity-centered transformation.
Common questions.
How long does it take?
The assessment is designed to be completed in one sitting. Most participants should set aside focused time so they can respond reflectively.
Is this a personality test?
No. The R.I.S.E. Index™ focuses on leadership practice, reflexivity, and developmental patterns connected to transformative leadership.
Can my organization use it with a group?
Yes. The R.I.S.E. Index™ can be used with teams as part of leadership development, coaching, or a Leadership Lab™ engagement.
What happens after I take it?
Your results can be used for personal reflection, coaching, team development, or as the starting point for a Leadership Lab™ experience.
Ready to see your leadership more clearly?
Take the R.I.S.E. Index™ to begin your personalized leadership profile and identify next steps for equity-centered transformation.
