| scale-up assessment

Stop guessing.

start scaling

65% of senior hires fail within 18 months. During scale-up, one wrong leadership call can cost you six months of runway. People Edge gives you the evidence to hire, identify, and develop the right leaders for your next stage of growth.

65%

of senior hires fail within 18 months

Source · CEB / Gartner
 

£200k+

average cost of a failed senior hire

Source · CIPD
 
 

80%

of founders hire in their own image, missing critical capability gaps

Source · HBR
 
 
THREE PACKAGES
What do you need right now?

Your leadership challenge maps to one of three outcomes. Are you looking to hire, identify hidden talent or develop your existing leaders?

PACKAGE 1 | HIRE

Hire right first time

YOUR CHALLENGE
You are hiring your next critical role. A wrong call costs you six months of runway and a six-figure write-off.
OUR SOLUTION
You get a comprehensive, data-driven analysis, delivered before you make the offer.
Core Method

Behavioural interview

Our data-driven approach decodes current and past performance to map candidate behaviours, motivations, drivers, strengths, and growth areas. It eliminates guesswork, ensuring you hire high-potential leaders who execuate and align to your scale.

Entrepreneurial and Talent Assessment

Validated diagnositcs quantify agility, entrepreneurial risk patterns and strengths. Combining our interview with psychological data provides a full 3D perspective of a leader before you hire them.

OPTIONAL BOLT-ONS

Deeper Psychological Profiling

Select from a range of world leading psychometrics and ability tests to gain deper insights into a candidate’s personality, potential, cognitive capability and derailment risks.

Agentic AI work-based simulations

The latest in Psychometric profiling; bespoke business case studies fully automated using Agentic AI avatars

PACKAGE 2 | IDENTIFY

identify your hidden talent

YOUR CHALLENGE
You hire externally when you need talent. But your high potentials are often already inside the business, hidden and overlooked. Going to market is expensive. Finding and growing the people who already hold your institutional knowledge gives you a better return.
OUR SOLUTION
You get a clear view of ready-now and ready-next potential. Your employees get individual development plans and you get an organisation-wide view of where development spend should be prioritised.
Core Method

Behavioural interview

Our data-driven approach decodes current and past performance to map employees’ behaviours, motivations, drivers, strengths, and growth areas. It eliminates guesswork, ensuring you identify high-potential leaders who you can develop to build your bench strength as you scale.

Psychological profiling

Select from a range of world leading psychometrics and ability tests to gain deper insights into an employee’s personality, potential, strategic capability and derailment risks.

OPTIONAL BOLT-ONS

Entrepreneurial profiling

Keen to build and innovative, entrepreneurial culture? Our validated diagnositcs quantify agility, entrepreneurial risk patterns and strengths within your exisitng exployee population.

Agentic AI work-based simulations​

The latest in Psychometric profiling; bespoke business case studies fully automated using Agentic AI avatars help identify who has the potential to step up into bigger, more complex roles.

PACKAGE 3 | DEVELOP

DEVELOP EXISTING LEADERS

YOUR CHALLENGE
The leaders that got you here may not be the right ones to get you to the next stage. You need know who are the right leaders to grow with the business and who might hold it back.
OUR SOLUTION
Each leader gets a personalised development roadmap they own, built on multi-faceted data points. At the team and function level you get a view of capability, strengths and developmental blindspots to support organisation-wide leadership development planning.
Core Method

Behavioural interview

Our data-driven approach decodes current and past performance to map a leaders’ behaviours, motivations, drivers, strengths, and growth areas. It eliminates guesswork, ensuring you identify the leaders who you can develop to stay on the journey with you as you scale.

Entrepreneurial profiling

Validated diagnositcs quantify agility, entrepreneurial risk patterns and strengths. Combining our interview with psychological data provides a full 3D perspective of your leaders.

OPTIONAL BOLT-ONS

DEEPER PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILING

Select from a range of world leading psychometrics and ability tests to gain deper insights into a leader’s personality, potential, cognitive capability and derailment risks

LEADERSHIP 3.0 360-DEGREE SURVEY

Understand a leader’s strengths and growth areas from the perspective of the people with whom they work most closely through our future-focussed 360 leadership survey.

Team Performance Profiler

A team performance diagnostic that measures workplace behaviors across collaboration, productivity, and communication styles to optimise collective team dynamics and performance.

The True Cost of Senior Hiring Failure

Industry data shows 65% of senior hires fail within 18 months. Each failure costs around 3x annual salary in recruitment fees, lost productivity, severance and replacement costs. Move the sliders to see your exposure.

Average Annual Salary £150,000
£50k £500k
Senior Hires Per Year 5
1 10
Annual Cost of Hiring Failure
£1,462,500
Cost Per Failed Hire
£450,000
3x annual salary
Expected Failures Per Year
3.25
Based on 65% industry failure rate
3-Year Exposure
£4,387,500
Compounded cost over 3 years
How the numbers work: Cost per failed hire is calculated at 3x annual salary, covering recruitment fees, onboarding, salary paid during the failed tenure, severance, lost productivity, team disruption and replacement costs. Failure rate is set at the industry average of 65%. Sources: SHRM, CEB, Harvard Business Review.
world class partners

Validated Partners

Every recommendation is built on globally recognised diagnostics.
ETA TECHNOLOGIES

Entrepreneurial and Talent Assessment

Identifies entrepreneurial strengths and risks that reference calls and gut instinct miss. Includes co-founder conflicts, commitment gaps, and misaligned vision. Scores leaders and teams across 25+ risk patterns.

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leadership 3.0

360° Feedback

Future-ready leadership assessment measuring how leaders perform across three dimensions: leading self, leading others, and leading the organisation. Multi-rater feedback from team, peers, stakeholders and manager.

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HOGAN

Personality and Derailers

Industry-standard personality assessments measuring bright side strengths, dark side risks, core motives and potential. Predicts how leaders perform, how they derail under pressure, and what drives them.

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SOVA

Adaptive Assessment

Skills-based assessments grounded in organisational psychology. Measures cognitive ability, behaviour, and situational judgement in a single candidate experience.

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META TEAMS

Team Performance diagnostic

A team performance diagnostic that measures workplace behaviors across collaboration, productivity, and communication styles to optimise collective team dynamics and performance.

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META

Agentic AI Work-based assessments

Meta Profiling’s ARC AI assessments evaluates cognitive processing and fluid intelligence, measuring real-time problem-solving, abstract reasoning, and adaptation to novel workforce challenges.

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