Energy Leadership® Index (ELI) assessment
Most people know themselves until something hard happens. The ELI shows you what you actually do then
The Energy Leadership® Index, or ELI, is an assessment that helps you see the patterns shaping how you think, respond, communicate, and make decisions.
It is especially useful when life or work feels more demanding than usual, when familiar responses are no longer helping, or when you want to understand what is driving the way you show up.
The ELI is not about labeling you. It gives language to patterns you may already sense, but have not fully been able to see.
What the ELI is
Unlike a personality test, the ELI is not about placing you into a fixed category. It is an attitudinal assessment that looks at how you are currently perceiving and approaching life and work.
It offers a structured way to look at how your mindset, stress responses, emotional patterns, and beliefs influence the way you act, relate, and make decisions.
For some, it becomes a starting point. For others, it adds depth to coaching already underway. Either way, it creates a clearer picture of how your energy is being used, where it may be getting depleted, and where more choice may be available.
Why people find it useful
Most people have a sense of how they operate. Until something shifts.
Under pressure, reactions move faster than awareness. Patterns take over before you can name them, let alone change them.
The ELI brings those patterns into view. Not in an abstract way, but in a way that feels specific and recognizable, especially in moments that involve other people, decisions, and responsibility.
It can be especially useful when work starts to feel heavier than it used to, when you feel stretched thin, when responsibility increases, or when you are moving through a period of change without a clear next step.
What surprises people is not that the patterns exist. It is how consistently they show up. Once you can see them, you can stop being run by them.
How the assessment works
The ELI is completed online and usually takes about 20 to 30 minutes. It is available through an iPEC-certified coach and is followed by a debrief, which is where most of the insight becomes useful.
In the debrief, we look at your results and connect them to what you are actually experiencing in your life, work, relationships, leadership, or decision-making.
You will see how your energy moves across seven levels and how your current patterns may change under stress. The point is not to chase a perfect score. It is to understand where your responses are coming from and what options may become available when you can see them more clearly.
For many people, this is where something begins to make sense. Not because the information is completely new, but because it finally puts language to patterns that have been there for a long time.
The ELI 360
The ELI is also available as a 360 assessment.
The ELI 360 adds perspective from people you work closely with, such as colleagues, peers, direct reports, or others who experience your leadership in real time. It offers a broader view of how you see yourself and how others experience your presence, communication, decision-making, and leadership.
That contrast can be useful. It can highlight strengths you may be underusing, patterns that are harder to see on your own, and places where your intention and impact may not fully match.
For those in leadership roles, or anyone wanting a fuller picture, the ELI 360 adds a layer of perspective that is difficult to access alone.
Understand your response patterns
The ELI can help you see how you tend to meet stress, decisions, relationships, and daily demands.
It can show where you move into habit. Where you over-function. Where you withdraw. Where you push harder. Where you protect yourself. Where you become more available, creative, or connected.
This is not about judging the pattern. It is about seeing it clearly enough that you can respond with more intention.