| 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
£200k+
average cost of a failed senior hire
80%
of founders hire in their own image, missing critical capability gaps
Your leadership challenge maps to one of three outcomes. Are you looking to hire, identify hidden talent or develop your existing leaders?
Hire right first time
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.
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
identify your hidden talent
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.
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.
DEVELOP EXISTING LEADERS
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.
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.
Validated Partners
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.
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.
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.
Adaptive Assessment
Skills-based assessments grounded in organisational psychology. Measures cognitive ability, behaviour, and situational judgement in a single candidate experience.
Team Performance diagnostic
A team performance diagnostic that measures workplace behaviors across collaboration, productivity, and communication styles to optimise collective team dynamics and performance.
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.