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Research and data

Leadership Research and Data

Numbers you can cite. Every dataset here is first party or fully sourced, published with its sample size, its method and its limits, and free to republish with a link.

Two first party datasets, refreshed on a clock, plus sourced market data and live statistics from our free tools. Aggregate only, a reporting floor of 30 on every cut, and the method published next to every number.

Flagship reports

  • What CEOs Bring to Coaching Updated monthly. What owner CEOs and executives actually raise as real problems across coaching sessions and discovery calls, coded by theme. Owner CEOs and executives shown separately, plus the AI shift over time. Data: CSV.
  • The Leadership Readiness Index Quarterly. A benchmark of leadership type, style, skills and AI readiness from the responses to four free leadership assessments, with chapters, charts and a public JSON file.

Index chapters: leadership type, leadership style, leadership skills, AI readiness, leadership metrics and the methodology.

Coaching and peer group market data

  • Executive coaching cost Yearly edition. Rate tables by seniority with every source named, plus a cost calculator.
  • Executive coaching ROI statistics Sourced. Where the famous ROI claims come from, what the peer reviewed studies found, and how to measure it yourself.
  • CEO peer groups compared Sourced. Vistage, YPO, EO, Chief and Hampton side by side with current dues and a fit finder.
  • CEO Peer Group Compare Open data. Any three peer groups side by side on 12 published fields, every value sourced. Data: CSV, .
  • 360 degree feedback statistics Sourced. Adoption, effectiveness and failure rates from published research.

Live statistics from our free tools

Each of these pages is built from anonymous completions of one free tool and fills in as more people take it. Cuts below 30 responses are shown as not yet reportable.

Take the tools themselves on the free tools shelf or the assessments hub.

Using our data

Charts, tables and figures on these pages may be republished with attribution and a link to the page they come from. No permission request is needed. For a cut that is not published, write to andreas@leadersadapt.com. Requests that would fall below a reporting floor are declined with the count.