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STT® Assessment · Strategic Transformational Thinking
Professional diagnostic for how leaders think under complexity
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STT® Assessment Strategic Transformational Thinking

Diagnose how your leaders think,
before you scale their decisions.

STT® Assessment is a professional diagnostic of how leaders and teams think: how they frame problems, read systems, and design interventions. It does not test personality or memory; it reads thinking patterns under complexity and pressure.

Core premise

The same problem in two organizations can produce opposite decisions.
STT® Assessment focuses on the thinking that produces those decisions, not only the outcomes.

It asks: how does this leader construct reality, see causality, and choose where to intervene in the system?

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Executive-level · Case-based · Integrated with SMS®, SMR®, and SEM®
What STT® Assessment actually reads
From visible decisions to invisible thinking patterns.

Traditional assessments measure skills, tasks, or personality profiles. STT® Assessment looks at the architecture of thinking itself:

Framing: How the leader defines “the problem” and what gets excluded from the frame.
Structure: How they see systems, stakeholders, feedback loops, and deeper dynamics.
Leverage: Where they choose to intervene (events, processes, incentives, structure, or purpose).
Time: Whether they consider only the next quarter – or anticipate second- and third-order effects.

The output is not a generic “leadership style” label. It is a narrative map of how thinking behaves under complexity and pressure, written in a language executives can actually use.

Case-based diagnostic Executive dialogue tool Directly linked to SMS® and SEM®
Where STT® Assessment is most valuable
When knowing “how they think” is a strategic necessity.

Organizations typically commission STT® Assessment when they:

Prepare leaders for major transformation, mergers, or restructuring.
Need to select or calibrate leaders for critical roles beyond CV and interviews.
Observe repeated failures that cannot be explained by resources or knowledge alone.
Want to anchor leadership development programs in an explicit thinking baseline.

In all these cases, STT® Assessment becomes the front door into a deeper systemic journey:

STT®: Reads the thinking patterns.
SMS®: Positions those patterns on the Systemic Maturity Scale.
SMR®: Documents key findings and contradictions in a board-ready format.
SEM®: Converts insight into execution levers and development pathways.
Designed between SMS® Level 2 and Level 3 Pre-work for systemic leadership journeys