Transform Your Leadership with Energy Leadership Index (ELI) Coaching
Start your personal path to self-discovery, learn where you stand today, and navigate to where you want to be tomorrow with the ELI assessment and coaching.
What Is the Energy Leadership Index (ELI) — and Why It Matters in Coaching
The Energy Leadership Index (ELI) is more than just an assessment—it’s a mirror that reveals how you show up in your work, your relationships, and your leadership. Unlike personality tests that label or categorize you, the ELI measures your current energy and mindset, especially under stress. It highlights how your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors influence your effectiveness as a leader and decision-maker.
Rooted in seven levels of energy, the ELI provides a dynamic picture of how you lead—from reactive, burnout-prone patterns to creative, engaged states that inspire others. When paired with coaching, this insight becomes a roadmap for conscious growth. You gain clarity on the energetic patterns holding you back and learn how to shift toward more productive and empowering responses.
In coaching, the ELI is a catalyst for change. It helps you identify blind spots, unlock greater awareness, and make intentional choices that support your goals. Whether you’re navigating a leadership transition, dealing with burnout, or looking to lead with more authenticity, the Energy Leadership Index offers a foundation for sustainable transformation.
Energy Leadership Coaching: Shifting the Way You Lead, Think, and Show Up
Many leaders operate on autopilot—reacting to stress, managing constant demands, and struggling to feel fulfilled or aligned. Energy Leadership Coaching offers a way to break that cycle. Using the insights from the Energy Leadership Index, you’ll gain visibility into the mindset and energy levels driving your decisions and interactions every day.
This coaching process doesn’t just help you understand where you are—it shows you where you can go. You’ll learn how to shift from catabolic energy (draining, reactive, limiting) to anabolic energy (constructive, inspiring, and resilient). Over time, this shift improves everything from communication and leadership presence to mental clarity and performance.
At Humessence, we work with leaders and teams who are ready to move beyond burnout, frustration, or stagnation. Energy Leadership Coaching is ideal for those who want to lead with intention, stay grounded under pressure, and create cultures of engagement and trust. It’s not about doing more—it’s about showing up differently.
Is the ELI Assessment Right for You or Your Team?
The Energy Leadership Index is especially powerful for professionals who want to better understand how their internal state affects their external impact. It’s not just for executives or high-level leaders—it’s for anyone who finds themselves asking:
Why am I feeling stuck, drained, or reactive under pressure?
Why are my team dynamics strained, even when we have the right skills?
How can I show up more consistently with purpose and presence?
If you’re a leader, entrepreneur, manager, or team member who is feeling burned out, overwhelmed, or misaligned, the ELI can help you uncover the underlying energy and mindset patterns contributing to those experiences. For teams, it provides a shared language to explore interpersonal dynamics, improve communication, and build trust.
This assessment is particularly useful during career transitions, team development initiatives, leadership onboarding, and periods of change. When paired with professional coaching, the ELI isn’t just diagnostic—it’s transformational. It offers the clarity and coaching support you need to break patterns that no longer serve you and move forward with purpose.
Kick Off Your Self-Mastery Journey
When you take the Energy Leadership Index assessment, you’re engaging in a process that’s designed to spark powerful insight and actionable growth. It starts with a 20–30 minute online assessment that evaluates how you perceive and respond to situations across seven levels of energy—both when you’re at your best and under stress.
After completing the assessment, you’ll meet with a certified Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner for a personalized debrief coaching session. This 60- to 90-minute conversation brings the data to life—translating your energy profile into real-world meaning. You’ll uncover the energetic patterns that shape how you lead, manage stress, make decisions, and interact with others.
Rather than labeling or scoring you, the ELI reveals how conscious or reactive your current leadership style is—and how you can shift toward a more empowered and intentional way of being. Most clients walk away with a clear “aha” moment, a sense of relief, and concrete strategies to begin showing up differently. This isn’t just an assessment—it’s the start of a new leadership chapter.
Take 30 minutes to respond to ELI’s 84 questions. Find a quiet spot free from interruption, as responses will require introspection and honesty, discerning between actual behavior and intention.
A 1-hour session to review results, themes, strengths and opportunities for growth. We’ll explore novel ways to leverage your strengths and uncover the source of any blocks holding you back.
Our last 1-hour session begins with finishing our exploration of blocks and their sources. Then we’ll identify attitude shifts that support your self-mastery journey and create an execution plan.
Key Benefits of Energy Leadership Index Assessment Coaching
The Energy Leadership Index is most impactful when used as part of a larger coaching journey. That’s why we offer tailored coaching packages that pair the assessment with focused support to help you shift the way you lead, think, and show up—consistently and sustainably.
For Individuals
This one-on-one coaching experience includes the full ELI assessment, a personalized debrief, and coaching aligned with your specific goals. It’s ideal for professionals looking to reduce stress, boost confidence, and lead with greater clarity.
For Teams
The ELI helps teams uncover energy drains, improve communication, and build accountability. Each member completes the assessment, followed by individual debriefs and a team session to align collective energy.
For Organizations
We offer customized programs that support leadership alignment and culture transformation at scale. The ELI provides a foundation for self-aware, values-driven action across all levels of the organization.
The Energy Leadership Index gives you more than insight—it gives you a starting point for real transformation. When paired with coaching, it helps you gain:
Whether you’re feeling stuck, burned out, or simply ready to grow, the ELI shows you what’s been holding you back—and how to move forward with purpose.
Your ELI Master Practitioners
Don Fries, MBA, PCC
Executive, Leadership, and Retirement Coach
Don’s 38 years of leadership at ExxonMobil—spanning global operations, talent development, and organizational culture—make him a grounded and insightful Energy Leadership Index coach. His coaching helps leaders reflect on how their energy affects influence, presence, and decision-making, especially in high-stakes moments or career transitions. With empathy and depth, Don supports clients in shifting patterns, clarifying purpose, and leading with greater intention. Check out his profile to learn more about his approach and story.
Brett Larson, MBA, CLC
Leadership Development Program Facilitator & Coach
Brett’s deep experience in leadership development and organizational behavior, including coaching Fortune 500 executives, makes him an ideal guide for Energy Leadership Index coaching. As the author of Discovering Leaders Within, he specializes in helping leaders uncover limiting patterns and develop energy-based strategies to lead with clarity, trust, and confidence. Brett’s coaching is both practical and transformative. Check out his profile to learn more about his approach and story.
Energy Leadership Index Assessment Coaching Package Options and Pricing
If you’re ready to go beyond surface-level solutions and make real, sustainable change in how you lead, the Energy Leadership Index is your starting point.
Let’s connect. Book a discovery call to explore the best coaching package for you or your team.
ELI Assessment Debrief (1 session)
A 90-minute one-on-one session with a certified Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner. Includes the full ELI assessment, personalized report, and guided debrief focused on your current energy patterns and areas for leadership growth.
Debrief + Energy Shift Plan (3 sessions)
Includes ELI debrief plus two 60-minute follow-up coaching sessions focused on applying insights, building awareness, and shifting into more conscious, effective leadership responses.
Executive Energy Track (6 sessions)
Includes full ELI debrief and custom development plan, plus five additional coaching sessions to integrate energy shifts into communication, influence, and decision-making. Designed for executives and senior leaders ready to lead with presence and resilience.
Looking to support a team or department?
We offer custom programs for organizations that include group debriefs and strategic leadership alignment sessions. Click here to request a proposal for your organization today.
Learn More About ELI Assessment Coaching for You or Your Team(s)
Whether you’re looking to schedule a personal debrief or bring ELI coaching to your entire team, we’re here to help you harness the full potential of your assessment insights. Book your one-on-one session today, or fill out the form below to explore team or organization-wide coaching options with a certified ELI Master Practitioner.
ELI Assessment Coaching Frequently Asked Questions
Unlike personality tests that categorize you, the ELI measures your current energetic response to stress and challenge, giving you a dynamic picture of how you lead and show up. It focuses on mindset, awareness, and choice, which means it’s not static—it can evolve through coaching.
Not at all. While many executives use it, the ELI is just as valuable for new managers, individual contributors, entrepreneurs, and team members who want to develop emotional intelligence, self-leadership, and resilience.
Yes. In fact, ELI team packages are one of the most powerful ways to improve group dynamics. Each person takes the assessment individually, and we then facilitate team-level coaching to help align energy, uncover hidden friction points, and build trust.
You’ll walk away with a clear understanding of your energetic profile and practical strategies for improvement. Most clients continue with coaching sessions to deepen their growth, reinforce new habits, and integrate changes into their leadership or work environment.
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