QUALITY OF TEAM (QoT)
Precision Diligence for Leadership: Know the Strength of Your Team Before You Invest
Quality of Team (QoT) delivers a deep yet efficient assessment of executive teams, flagging behavioral cohesion, risk points, and flight risk prior to or post-deal.
Evaluate leadership quality as confidently as earnings—swiftly and with insight.
The Challenge
Blind Spot in Due Diligence
Private equity investors have no shortage of advisors and consultants to diligence financials, insurance, legal exposure, market conditions, and tech risk. But when it comes to one of the most critical factors—the leadership team—they're often flying blind.
Despite the high stakes, there’s been little available to help investors evaluate executive talent quickly, thoroughly, and in a structured way. Until now.
The Solution
A Clear View of Leadership Strength
Quality of Team gives investors a structured way to assess leadership impact before closing. It highlights strengths, exposes risks, and shows where teams may break under pressure. The result is a clearer view of how leadership will affect value creation.
Use Cases
When to Put QoT to Work
From diligence to integration to transformation, QoT gives you a structured way to evaluate leadership strength. Use it to surface risks, confirm readiness, and align teams when the stakes are highest.
Best Fit:
Perfect for private equity sponsors, M&A teams, and leadership-aligned boards.
The Leadership Intel Investors Need
QoT delivers measurable insight into leadership strength, risk, and cohesion so you can make faster, smarter decisions.
Expose Alignment
Pinpoint where leadership is cohesive—or fractured
Test Under Stress
Reveal how executives perform outside their comfort zone
Flag Flight Risks
Spot derailers and post-deal turnover early
Cut Through Bias0
Replace opinions with objective behavioral data
Check out what clients say:
It revealed fragmentation in the leadership that we never would’ve caught.
QoT felt like QA on the team itself—not just the numbers.
How It Works
Turning Leadership into Measurable Insights
Five focused steps give you a clear, actionable view of leadership risk and strength.
05. Deliver
Provide a detailed team's strengths & risk profile—immediately actionable.
04. Flag Risks
Identify potential disrupters—behavioral, motivational, or loyalty-based.
01. Define Scope
Agree on participants—executives, leadership peers, direct reports.
02. Assess
Run psychometric, values, and derailer diagnostics.
03. Analyze
Evaluate team as a unit—including stress response and cohesion.
FAQs
Straight Answers to
Common Questions
Get clarity on how Quality of Team (QoT) works and what to expect.
A: Efficient design means fast turnaround—days, not weeks—depending on scope.
A: Both. QoT evaluates executive consistency under pressure, and how they function collectively.
A: Absolutely. It's designed to inform whether the leadership team will perform—or fold—under post-deal stress.
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