The RIDE Forecast

Navigating your
leadership
challenges.

Made for founders, executives, and anyone who leads a team through change. The forecast names the archetype you lead with and the moments where you're at your best, and it knows the co-leader who covers the rest.

Take the forecast → 26 questions · 5 minutes · free
01

Four leadership moments.

Your team's work moves through four thresholds, in roughly the same order, and each one asks for a different kind of leader to get the team across. Nobody carries all four naturally. You'll lead two of them well and stretch on the rest, and your two combine into one of nine leadership archetypes.

R
Release
The drive toward Release. You commit the team to act before the path is fully clear.
in practice · founding a venture, launch decisions, a strategy pivot, the moment a plan becomes action
I
Integration
The drive toward Integration. You turn one good outcome into the team's new standard.
in practice · post-launch consolidation, scaling what worked, succession, codifying a playbook
D
Dissolution
The drive toward Dissolution. You call time on what's stopped working and bring the team with you.
in practice · sunsetting a product, layoffs done right, killing a project, saying no to bad-fit deals
E
Exposure
The drive toward Exposure. You take the team's work into the world and stand behind it.
in practice · product launches, customer pitches, fundraising, going public with the work
02

The nine leadership archetypes.

Your two RIDE letters combine into an archetype: the way you do change. The first letter is how you open a change; the second is the ending you drive toward. It runs deep, showing in how you decide long before you think about it. The RIDE Forecast names yours.

R + I
The Compounder
Builds on every win.
R + D
The Transformer
Turns the old into the new.
R + I/D
The Initiator
Starts the change.
E + I
The Converter
Makes believers of the new.
E + D
The Disruptor
Lets the new displace the old.
E + I/D
The Pioneer
Goes first into the new.
R/E + I
The Consolidator
Makes the change hold.
R/E + D
The Liberator
Clears what's run its course.
R/E + I/D
The Catalyst
Sparks the change the moment needs.

Where the nine come from →

03

Eight leadership styles.

Underneath your archetype sit eight leadership styles, two for each phase of work. The forecast scores you on all eight. Your strongest is the style you reach for without thinking; your weakest is where a co-leader earns their place.

Potentiality
Holds direction open. Explores possibilities. Waits for the moment to commit.
InspiringGets people excited about what's being built.
VisionaryThinks years ahead of where the team is.
Construction
Builds the work. Selection at the gate, delivery to completion.
DirectiveSets the structure and assigns the roles.
DrivingPushes the work to completion.
Encounter
Meets the market live. Customers, real conditions, immediate feedback.
EngagingWins the room in real time.
CommandingMakes the hard call when it counts.
Conservation
Holds what works. Catches drift early. Defends what was built.
SupportingLooks after how the team is doing.
ProtectingDefends what works and the people doing it.
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Your forecast includes a chart like this one.

POTENTIALITY CONSTRUCTION ENCOUNTER CONSERVATION Inspiring Visionary Directive Driving Engaging Commanding Supporting Protecting
An example profile · Visionary R

The black curve shows your strengths across the eight leadership styles. The red dashed curve shows what one of the four phases of work is asking for. In this example, that phase is Encounter, the part of the work where a team meets its customers and the world.

Where the dashed curve sits outside the black, the phase asks for more than the leader brings. On this profile, Encounter is a real stretch on Engaging and Commanding. Section 3 of your forecast does the same comparison for all four phases, so you can see where you fit and where you'll want a co-leader.

05

What's in your RIDE Forecast.

Five specific findings, with your scores and a plain-English read. The full forecast is yours to keep, export, and share.

01
Your archetype

Which of the nine ways of doing change is yours, and the two moments you're built to take a team through. example · The Transformer · R + D · turns the old into the new

02
Your primary style and home regime

Your strongest of the eight leadership styles, and the phase of work you lead from most naturally. example · Visionary R · 0.92 · home regime Potentiality

03
A forecast for each phase of work

Your fit on each of the four phases, and the specific styles each phase asks for that are thin in you. example · Construction 0.62 · biggest stretch Driving, 40 points beyond reach

04
The co-leader who fills your gaps

Every archetype has a structural opposite who leads beside you. The forecast names yours, plus the concrete roles to hire for or partner with. example · a Transformer pairs with a Converter, who makes believers of what you build

05
A map of the journey ahead

Pick the stage the work is in today and the stage you're taking it to. The road between them shows what each stretch asks of you and who carries each threshold. example · Potentiality → Encounter · two thresholds: Release is yours, Exposure is your co-leader's

Which of the nine are you?

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