CLARIDUS
From The Kevin Eikenberry Group
Two leaders bring the same problem. They get (and deserve) different answers.
Because they're different people.
Claridus is the first AI leadership platform that learns who the leader is before it helps them decide what to do.
Were you at Virtual LeaderCon? Watch a clip from the demo.
You Know This Problem
You've spent real money on leadership development. Your leaders came back knowing more than they did before. And your organization works about the way it always has.
That isn't because the training was bad. Knowing and doing are two different things, and nothing was there to support your leaders when they didn't know how to start a hard conversation or make a complex decision.
So where do your leaders actually go at 7 a.m. when they're stuck? It’s not the binder from the workshop.
Training is an event. Learning is a process. And the flow of real work is where behavior either changes or it doesn't.
What Claridus Does
Your leader brings a real situation.
The challenge they are facing at that moment.
Claridus learns their story.
It learns more than their style: what a situation like this means to them and what they believe they have to do about it. We call that the LeaderLens, and it deepens every time they use it.
They get a next move, often with the actual words to use.
It draws on expert knowledge matched to what they're facing.
It doesn't decide for them. They're still the leader. It gets them to a good decision faster and with more confidence, and it helps them become more effective for the rest of their career.
Here's What That Looks Like
Both leaders ask the same question: "I have someone underperforming on my team and I don't know how to address it."
Leader #1: Marcus
Promoted to director eight months ago. Underneath, he's worried about being found out.
Claridus gives him a small first step he's nearly certain to get right, plus the words for the first 90 seconds.
Leader #2: Dana
Fifteen years running operations. Underneath, she believes it all falls apart if she lets go.
Claridus explains first why the approach works, then gently pushes back on doing it all herself.
Note: Marcus and Dana are composite leaders we built to show how Claridus works.
Same question. Same expert knowledge. Different answers.
When was the last time anything you bought for your leaders did that?
No One Else Has Done This
This fall we studied 31 platforms, including ten of the largest leadership assessment firms in the world.
The firms that own the deep leadership knowledge have built nothing for leaders. Not one leader-facing tool among them.
The firms that built the tools own no knowledge of their own. Their "insight" comes from the average advice on the internet.
Claridus is the only one that learns the leader, applies proven knowledge, and helps that leader grow from where they actually are.
And . . . the cynic in you is thinking that every one of these tools claims to know you. Fair. One of them advertises that it "actually knows you." What it knows is that you're one of eight fixed types. A type is not an identity. You may be the same style at 55 that you were at 25, but you aren't the same leader.
Why We Can
Three things have to be true at once for a leader to get guidance that actually fits.
The LeaderLens
Holds who your leader is, so nothing starts from scratch.
The KnowledgeBases
Hold the expert thinking, matched to the situation. We start with Bud to Boss and add more over time.
The Coaching Layer
Decides how to say it to this leader in this moment: what to protect, where to push, and what the next move is.
And there's a fourth thing that isn't software. We've spent more than thirty years in the room with leaders, teaching them, coaching them, writing for them, and getting it wrong often enough to learn something. The thinking inside Claridus isn't licensed from anyone. It's ours, and we stand behind it.
See It Working
A few minutes from the Virtual LeaderCon Session.
Questions You're Probably Asking
Nothing. You're still the leader. It gets you to a good decision faster and with more confidence, then helps you figure out what to say. You aren't staring at a blank page at 7 a.m. wondering how to open a hard conversation.
These tools give you a style, which is useful but isn't the whole picture. Claridus works with the story underneath it: what a situation means to you and what you believe you have to do about it. DISC and other assessments are an input. It isn't the engine.
There are, and some are good at what they do. They know your calendar and your team. They don't know you. Two leaders can ask one of them the same question and get the same answer. Ask Claridus, and they won't.
Your leaders' data is stored securely and is never used to train public AI models. It isn't shared with anyone outside your organization and our team. A full security overview is available on request.
Built With You
We're opening Claridus to three founding organizations.
That isn't meant to rush you. Three is the number of organizations I can commit to supporting closely. I've watched a lot of promising changes stall without enough attention behind them. I won't let that happen with Claridus.
Founding clients get:
Claridus is built for organizations bringing it to 50 or more leaders. The founding cohort or organizations closes December 12, and deployment begins no later than January.
A Conversation, Then a Demo
Bring me a real leadership problem in your organization, one you haven't solved yet. I'll tell you what I see underneath it. Then I’ll show Claridus to you live. Within an hour you'll know whether Claridus is right for you, and you'll walk away with something useful either way. And you’ll get more value when you invite other decision makers to join you.
Excited About This, but Not the One Who Decides?
Some of the people who get excited about Claridus aren't the ones who can approve it. If that's you, and you know who the right person is, I've made the introduction easy with a "Champion Kit", designed specifically for you to easily share Claridus with the decision makers in your organization.
Not Ready Yet?
I'll send you one note when the LeaderLens is live, with a short video of it working. That's it.
A Note From Me
I've spent my career helping leaders turn what they know into what they do. I believe Claridus is the most important thing we've built in the life of our company. I'd love to show you why.
You are Remarkable!
Kevin Eikenberry
Chief Potential Officer, The Kevin Eikenberry Group
Co-Founder, Claridus