101: Why Most Leadership Assessments Are Measuring the Wrong Thing
About this episode
Logan Yonavjak discusses the importance of measuring a leader's cognitive capacity and readiness for future challenges rather than just their past achievements.
What if the biggest constraint on your organisation isn't your tech, your funding, or your market, but whether your leaders can think at the level the problem requires? Build your own CTO Playbook at www.theCTOplaybook.com - the leadership platform built for the full CTO journey. Coaching, podcast, and community to help you lead with clarity, confidence, and strategic impact. Logan Yonavjak spent nearly two decades in impact investing before co-founding Readiness Engine. Her perspective matters here because she watched the pattern play out across hundreds of well-resourced teams. The teams weren't short on capital. They were short on cognitive capacity to hold complexity, sit with paradox, and make decisions when the answer wasn't black-and-white. Most leadership assessments snapshot who you are. Logan argues they miss the part that predicts whether you're ready for what's coming next: how you think, not what you've done. In this episode, we get into developmental psychology, why coachability is the single biggest predictor of growth, and what it looks like to measure a leader's readiness rather than their résumé. For CTOs who've been told coaching is something other people get…
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