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Competency domains
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Maturity levels
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The Maturity Assessment gives you a structured picture of where you are strong, where your next level of growth lives, and a development roadmap built from your actual scores, not a generic curriculum.
Whether you are still discovering what the Chief of Staff role looks like, actively developing your capabilities, or ready and just missing the proof point. There is a path from where you are to where you want to be. The CoS Maturity Assessment shows you exactly where you stand. The CoS Launchpad helps you close the gap.
84 questions. 7 domains. 4 levels. A score that tells you not just what you know, but where you operate and what your next level of development actually requires.
C1
Self-Awareness & Personal Leadership
C2
Operating Business System & Performance Mgmt
C3
Continuous Improvement & Automation
C4
Project, Program & Portfolio Management
C5
Change Management & Stakeholder Adoption
C6
Strategy Planning & Deployment
C7
AI Enablement & Agentic Leadership
Most aspiring Chiefs of Staff are stuck not because they lack skills, but because they lack a proof point. Without a real deliverable at CoS altitude, the conversation about the title never gets traction. The Launchpad creates that moment.
For your Principal
A real project gets done. No long-term commitment. A high-priority initiative that has been sitting without the right owner gets architected and delivered with fractional CoS expertise leading it. The principal invests in their team's development and gets a concrete outcome in return.
For your Career
You co-lead the engagement as the operational partner - not as a junior contributor, but as a full co-lead learning in real time how to think, structure, and execute at CoS altitude. When the project is done, you have a result to point to. Your principal watched you do it. The case for the title is no longer abstract.
How it works
01
Scoping & Baseline
Identify the right project and assess the aspiring CoS's current maturity across relevant domains.
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Active Co-Delivery
Lead the project together. The aspiring CoS learns in real time at CoS altitude with real stakes.
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Results & Proof Point
Deliverable complete. The aspiring CoS has the result to point to. The case for the title is now real.
›Chief of Staff Academy is the only platform that starts from a diagnostic. We measure where you are before prescribing where to go. Everything is built from the same 7-domain framework that defines what CoS excellence actually looks like at each level of organizational altitude: the assessment, the Launchpad, and the development engagements.
Measure first, develop second
The assessment is not a marketing tool. It is the foundation of every development conversation we have.
Learning by doing, not by watching
The Launchpad and development engagements are built around real work, real challenges, real outcomes.
Proof points, not certificates
At the end of an engagement, you have a result to point to, not a badge to display.