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The 35-minute diagnostic for the readiness
your survey won't surface.

A structured diagnostic for CHROs, Chief People Officers, and transformation sponsors. Six readiness pillars scored across awareness, manager capability, change fatigue, and resistance. Report delivered to your Levelset dashboard.

$9,500 · 35 min

What you will know

Five answers no status report will give you.

Every finding is anchored to something you said in the interview, cited verbatim. Nothing is generated from a model's assumptions.

  1. 01

    Whether awareness of the change has translated to genuine belief in its necessity, or whether employees have heard the message without accepting it.

  2. 02

    Whether leadership trust is high enough and present enough to carry the workforce through the most disruptive phase of go-live.

  3. 03

    Whether managers are equipped to guide their teams or will become the primary source of confusion and resistance at go-live.

  4. 04

    Whether the organization has absorption capacity for this change, or whether competing initiatives and accumulated change fatigue have already consumed the bandwidth the program depends on.

  5. 05

    A prioritized intervention roadmap: the specific actions that will have the greatest impact on readiness in the window remaining before go-live.

The 25 minutes

A structured interview, not a survey.

The analyst does not read a script at you and you do not fill in a form. Each pillar gets four to five minutes of structured conversation, with probes that push past the talking points to where the program actually stands.

  1. 0:00

    ~3 min

    Setup and orientation.

    Confirm program type, phase, scope of affected employees, and the lead's role. Establish what "ready" means to the program sponsor and the business owners before scoring starts.

  2. 3:00

    ~5 min

    Pillar 01

    Awareness and desire for change.

    Whether front-line employees understand what is changing and why, and whether they believe the change is worth doing, not just that it is happening.

  3. 8:00

    ~5 min

    Pillar 02

    Leadership trust and visibility.

    Whether employees trust the leaders running this change, and whether leadership presence is regular and personal or confined to formal milestones.

Questions you will hear

A small sample. The probes are sharper.

These are the openers. The follow-ups are calibrated to your answers and the rubric, so the conversation goes where the signal is.

Awareness

If I walked onto your most operationally complex floor right now and asked three front-line employees why this program is happening, what would they say? Not what you'd want them to say. What would they actually say?

Leadership trust

Has this organization gone through a major transformation in the last five years that didn't deliver what was promised? How is that history being addressed in how you're running this one?

Manager readiness

Is there a manager, or a category of managers, you know is not bought in? What are they saying privately, and what is their team hearing from them day to day?

Change fatigue

Is there a department that's already telling you, directly or indirectly, that they don't have the capacity to engage at the level the program requires? What's happened in those conversations?

The deliverable

A report your PMO can work from on Monday.

Fourteen to eighteen pages. Pillar scores with the rubric used to grade them. Findings cited line by line from the interview. A sequenced remediation plan with effort, impact, and a 30/60/90 cadence.

No filler. No platitudes. No charts that exist just to fill the page.

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The pillars assessed

01

Awareness & Desire for Change

Whether employees understand what changes are coming, why they are necessary, and whether they believe the transformation is worth doing.

02

Leadership Trust & Visibility

Whether employees trust that leadership will guide the transformation successfully and whether leaders are visibly and consistently present throughout the change.

03

Manager Readiness & Capacity

Whether people leaders are equipped, enabled, and have sufficient bandwidth to guide their teams through the change without becoming a bottleneck or a source of resistance.

04

Change Fatigue & Absorption Capacity

Whether the organization has sufficient bandwidth to absorb this change given competing priorities, historical change load, and the accumulated fatigue from prior transformations.

05

Role Clarity & Employee Confidence

Whether employees understand specifically how their roles will change and whether they feel capable of adapting successfully to the future state.

06

Resistance Indicators & Recovery Readiness

Whether the organization can detect resistance early, distinguish active from passive resistance, and mobilize a credible response before resistance becomes the dominant organizational posture.

Who this is for

Executives running real programs, calling before the trouble starts.

Calibrated for major transformation programs at or approaching go-live, including ERP, HCM, finance, and operational changes. Most useful when the program is on track on paper but organizational readiness has not been independently validated. This is not a project health check: it diagnoses whether the people side will hold.

  • Chief Human Resources Officer
  • Chief People Officer
  • VP of Organizational Effectiveness
  • Head of Change Management
  • Chief Transformation Officer
  • Program Sponsor (transformation, ERP, HCM, or operational)
  • VP or Director of Organizational Development

Two-minute qualification

We confirm the program type, scope, and your role in a short qualifier before the interview begins. If the diagnostic is not calibrated to your situation, we will say so before you pay.

The analyst

Calibrated to ask the questions a senior partner would ask.

The Levelset change readiness specialist is a structured agent built on frontier reasoning models and calibrated against six readiness pillars. It is not assessing program delivery. It is assessing whether the people who will live through this change are ready to absorb it and whether the conditions for a successful transition exist on the ground, not just in the readiness dashboard.

Every score is anchored to specific things you said in the interview, cited verbatim under the finding. Every recommendation maps to a rubric line. The report distinguishes between process-based readiness and behavioral readiness. A training completion rate is not a readiness score.

Pricing

One diagnostic. Two paths.

The diagnostic and report are identical. Enterprise adds a live analyst debrief and an executive summary tailored to your sponsor.

Standard

$9,500

One-time · per program


  • 35-minute structured change readiness interview
  • PDF with change readiness score and prioritized intervention roadmap
  • Online dashboard with pillar scores and 30/60/90 timeline
  • Report delivered to your Levelset dashboard
  • Shareable with your program team, CHRO, and executive sponsor
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Enterprise

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Custom scope · annual options available


  • Everything in Standard
  • 45-minute live debrief with the reviewing analyst
  • Function-level readiness briefing for your executive sponsor
  • Priority delivery to your Levelset dashboard
  • Optional 90-day follow-up diagnostic at 50% off
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Comparable consulting engagement: $25,000 to $60,000

The Levelset Guarantee

If it doesn't find three things you didn't already know, you don't pay.

If your diagnostic doesn't surface at least three specific, actionable findings you didn't already know about your program, you don't pay. We refund in full, no questions, and you keep the report. We can make this guarantee because in practice, this diagnostic regularly tells CIOs uncomfortable things they suspected but couldn't prove.

Why now

The window to course-correct closes as go-live approaches.

The actions that move the needle on readiness, manager enablement, resistance engagement, role clarity conversations, require weeks to take effect. A diagnostic run well before go-live still leaves time to act. The same diagnostic run close to go-live produces findings with nowhere to go. The cost of a Levelset diagnostic is $9,500.

We accept 25 Standard diagnostics per month to maintain methodology quality. 12 spots remaining for June.

Questions

What people ask before they start.

Have something we missed? Email hello@letslevelset.com and a human will respond within a business day.

Who is this diagnostic for?+

CHROs, transformation sponsors, OCM leads, and program directors accountable for whether the organization successfully absorbs a major change. Most useful when someone at the executive level suspects readiness is weaker than the OCM artifacts suggest.

We already have pulse surveys and readiness trackers. What does this add?+

Pulse surveys and trackers measure what employees report. This diagnostic measures whether the conditions that predict successful adoption are actually in place: manager capability, leadership presence, change fatigue levels, and resistance that hasn't surfaced yet. The two are not substitutes.

Is this only for ERP programs?+

No. The diagnostic is calibrated for any major organizational change: ERP, HCM, operating model redesign, workforce restructuring, or merger integration. The pillars are behavioral, not system-specific.

Can I share the report with my program team and steering committee?+

Yes. The PDF is designed to be shared. Most clients use it as the opening artifact at the next steering committee session focused on people readiness.

What if the scores come back low?+

A low score with time remaining is actionable. The intervention roadmap is sequenced so the first actions are the ones with the most leverage in the window you have. The report will say directly when a finding requires immediate action versus when it can be staged.

Does Levelset provide change management support after the diagnostic?+

No. Levelset diagnoses. The report tells you what to do and in what order. You and your team, or your SI's OCM practice, execute the work. If the Enterprise debrief identifies specific resource gaps, that conversation can happen there.

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