The objections below are the ones we hear most from executives, HR leaders, and finance partners. Nothing here is softened for marketing — if the honest answer is "it depends," we say what it depends on.
All five pillars, with real screens from inside the platform and what each one does for you and for your client.
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Most assessment providers sell you one instrument and a report. Here is what changes when measurement, org analytics, coaching, client experience and ROI proof all live in the same system.
Other providers license each of these separately, if they offer them at all.
Re-measure the same leader at 90, 180 and 365 days. Change becomes a trend line, and re-measurement costs no license or per-report fee.
Nine-box, bench strength by function, flight-risk and derailer heat maps across the whole organization.
AI turns raw scores into debrief plans, coaching questions and development language in minutes.
A what-if planner for cost, retention and productivity, with an Evidence Locker behind every claim.
A branded client portal with reports, videos, coach messages, sessions and SMART goal profiles.
All five pillars and all twenty-one assessments included. No renewals, no per-report license fee. You pay 10% of what you sell.
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What a consultant pays the platform before margin, over five years.
License plus the required upper-tier membership, annual renewals on both, and a per-report platform fee after the first couple of reports.
One certification fee ($400 if you are already DISC certified). No license fee, no renewal, no per-report charge, and every pillar included. You pay 10% of what you actually sell.
Illustrative, based on publicly advertised license, membership, renewal and per-report pricing patterns in the leadership-assessment category. No vendor is named.
Every dot is an assessment included in one login. Hover to name it. A typical single-instrument provider lists about fifteen reports — twelve are the same DISC instrument re-cut for a different audience.
Twelve of those reports (the pale dots) are one DISC instrument re-cut for sales, career, student and team audiences. Culture and burnout, longitudinal tracking, org-wide roll-ups, ROI reporting and a client portal are missing entirely.
Move the sliders to your own numbers. Each bar shows the share of revenue you keep after the platform's cut.
Illustrative only. Assumes the same delivered revenue on both platforms and excludes re-certification and prepaid inventory costs.
Where a typical single-instrument provider matches us — and where they have nothing at all. Select a category to read both sides.
Full DISC plus Biblical DISC, with growth, communication and team-culture views generated from the same profile.
Covered — usually the flagship, re-cut into audience-specific reports.
Growth Tracks re-assess the same leader every 90, 180 or 365 days, so change shows up as a trend line instead of a memory.
A one-and-done report. Progress stays anecdotal.
Culture Pulse™ measures six drivers with open-text items, produces a quantified Burnout Risk Index™, and ships eighteen manager playbooks with 30/60/90-day actions.
Not offered, or a generic engagement survey with no burnout metric.
Nine-box, bench strength by function, flight-risk and derailer heat maps, and capability gaps mapped to roles — the whole organization on one screen.
Individual reports only. Roll-ups get rebuilt by hand in spreadsheets.
A what-if scenario planner for cost, retention and productivity, plus an Evidence Locker that attaches documents and notes to every claim.
Testimonials and case studies.
DNA Coach turns raw scores into debrief plans, coaching questions and development language in minutes.
Manual interpretation and prep before every session.
The Client SMART DNA portal gives each client reports, videos, coach messages, sessions, SMART goal profiles and an ROI calculator — all branded.
An emailed PDF.
A 10% flat fee. Your own storefront and Stripe account, your pricing, instant payouts, and lifetime certification with no renewal fees.
Thirty to fifty percent margins, annual re-certification, and prepaid inventory blocks.
One certification fee, $699, or $400 if you are already DISC certified. Every pillar and every instrument is included from day one. No license fee, no renewal, no per-report charge.
A separate paid license for each new program, often gated behind a paid mentorship tier, with annual renewals on both and a per-report platform fee on top. Five figures before the first client.
Twenty-one integrated assessments in one login: DISC, Biblical DISC, 360, Leader Potential, Leader Readiness, Leader Derailers, Team Effectiveness, LEPA, Employee Engagement and Culture Pulse™.
One flagship instrument with workshops bolted on. Gaps force you to resell someone else's tool.
A 360 rater dashboard, one-click and automated reminders, client groups with bulk ZIP report export, a CRM pipeline and nurture sequences.
Keycodes, spreadsheets and endless email threads.
Consultant Academy learning paths with quizzes, facilitator notes, pillar one-pagers, discovery call scripts, an FAQ and marketing videos — included.
Paid recurring training, sold separately.
A Burnout Risk Index™ the client can track quarterly, with manager playbooks already attached to every score band.
Nine-box placement and bench strength across the whole organization, not one leader at a time.
A 10% flat fee and a client portal you re-bill at whatever rate your market supports.
This comparison describes a category of single-instrument assessment providers, not any named company. Capability descriptions reflect publicly available product information and common industry practice, and may not apply to every vendor.
A 30-minute walkthrough of the assessments, the Growth Track trend lines, the org-wide roll-ups and the consultant economics — no keycodes, no spreadsheets.
Longitudinal tracking with automated re-assessment waves at 90, 180, and 365 days — so development is measured, not assumed.
Org-wide roll-ups — nine-box, bench strength, risk heat map, capability gaps — built from the assessments your people already completed.
An AI coaching companion grounded in the participant's own assessment data — available between sessions, never instead of them.
Retention, productivity, and payback modeling — with an Evidence Locker so every claim has a document behind it.
Bring the hardest one to a call. Twenty minutes is usually enough to know whether the Leadership Impact System fits how your organization actually develops people.