A 5-minute self-assessment

The Clarity Quotient

Julia Denman

Chief Risk and Audit Officer at Microsoft. Previously CFO at Microsoft and Procter & Gamble. Director, The Clorox Company.

Most leaders have more than enough intelligence. What they lack is a system for moving clarity from their head, through their team, into action.

Clarity Quotient measures three disciplines: how clearly you think, how courageously you ask, and whether your clarity reaches the people who have to act on it.

This takes about five minutes. Twenty questions, five-point scale, no right answers, only honest ones. Your results will show where your clarity holds, where it breaks, and what to do about it.

You may be running a global team. You may be early in your career, trying to land an idea with people who hold the decisions. You may sit on a board, governing through conditions that change between meetings. You may be navigating a life that asks you to be clear from every direction at once. The discipline is the same. The starting point is wherever you are.


The three dimensions

I

Clarity of Thinking

Cutting through noise to find the signal, deciding before the picture is complete, and holding that thinking when the conditions turn against you.

II

Clarity of Inquiry

Asking the questions that surface truth, including the ones the room would prefer to leave alone.

III

Clarity that Lands

Carrying your clarity across the gap between your mind and someone else's. Clarity Quotient is what closes that gap.