Balance Approach

Balance Approach

Free Assessments & Tools
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Find out where your firm actually stands

Every one of these is free and gives you a result on screen the moment you finish — no sales call required first. Most take two to ten minutes. If you want to talk something through afterwards, a coach will follow up; if you don’t, the result is still yours.

Start here — two to ten minutes

C-Suite Fit

Which executive seat — CEO, COO, CRO, CMO, or CFO — fits the work you're naturally strong at and energized by, with overlap between seats.

Free · on-screen resultOpen →

D.I.R.T. Client Transition Assessment

Where your firm carries the greatest client-transition risk across Delegation, Incentives, Relationships, and Transition systems — scored out of 100.

Free · on-screen resultOpen →

Purpose · People · Process

A leadership clarity profile showing how you naturally lead across Purpose, People, and Process — with your strongest domain and growth edge.

Free · on-screen resultOpen →

Retirement Readiness & Satisfaction Predictor

How prepared you are to step back from the business — and how satisfying that transition is likely to feel — across readiness and six satisfaction areas.

Free · on-screen resultOpen →
Go deeper — for when you’re ready to do the work

Time Study

A ten-day log of where your hours actually go, half hour by half hour — then a report showing how much of your week is spent on the business, with clients, and on work worth delegating.

10 daysOpen →

Practice Benchmarking

Benchmark your firm's financials and operations against the Balance Approach dataset. Detailed — allow 30–45 minutes; autosaves as you go.

30–45 minOpen →

10-Year Advisor Transition Plan

Build a full advisor transition plan across vision, clients, growth, leadership, equity, financials, and milestones. Autosaves as you go.

In depthOpen →

Practice Valuation — Intake

Intake details to begin a practice valuation with the Balance Approach team. Autosaves as you go; sends your responses back on submit.

30–45 minOpen →

Effective 1-1s — Capstone

Run a 1-1 with an associate whose delivery is slipping. Five decision points — opening, the data, the diagnosis, development, and commitments — then your own three changes and the date you'll use them. About 12 minutes. Built for people taking the course — your commitments go to your coach.

Course membersOpen →

Capacity Grid Action Planner

Choose your seat, then sort your week into the four capacity zones and decide the one activity to release this week — who owns it next, the guardrail, and by when. Five editions: CEO, CFO, COO, CRO, CMO. About 15 minutes. Built for people taking the course — your plan goes to your coach.

Course membersOpen →

Your result appears on screen straight away, and you can download or print it. The longer tools save your progress as you go, so you can stop and come back. Responses come to the Balance Approach team so a coach can follow up — we don’t sell or share them. Questions: hello@balanceapproach.com.