Executive function is the control center of your brain, the system that manages focus, emotional regulation, strategic thinking, and disciplined execution. It’s what separates leaders who freeze under pressure from those who thrive.
PELA measures the six critical executive function domains that determine whether you lead with clarity, agility, and speed in today’s high-stakes environment.
Your brain shapes every decision, every strategy, every high-stakes moment, but most leaders never understand how it actually works under pressure. PELA uncovers your unique cognitive wiring, revealing the strengths you already rely on and the blind spots silently holding you back.
Once you know your archetype, insight turns into action. Targeted strategies and micro-coaching help you strengthen key executive functions, sharpen decision-making, and lead with clarity, so your team executes, your ideas gain traction, and results follow.
PELA is a neuroscience-based leadership performance system that reveals how your brain’s executive functions drive real-world leadership outcomes. Unlike personality-based assessments, PELA measures how you think, process information, and execute under pressure.
Through research-backed scenarios, PELA identifies your cognitive strengths and pinpoints blind spots. Then it maps these results into one of four leadership archetypes you can immediately recognize and build upon.
The Reality Leaders Face
Being a leader today is exhausting. Over half of leaders (56%) reported burnout in 2024, up from 52% the year before. Stress isn’t just personal, it spreads through teams, causing micromanagement, poor communication, and stalled results. Organizations are feeling the impact, with 43% losing at least half their leadership teams to stress-related exits.
Why Most Leadership Programs Fail
Traditional training focuses on strategy and tactics but leaves the “mental hardware” untouched. PELA strengthens the brain systems behind focus, decision-making, and emotional regulation. Neuroscience coaching isn’t just theory: it improves decision-making by 52%, cuts leadership stress by 48%, and delivers a 3.7X ROI compared to traditional approaches.
Real Results, Measurable Impact
Companies using PELA see dramatic outcomes. Executive coaching alone delivers 788% ROI through productivity and retention gains, and combining it with training boosts team performance from 22% to 88%. Our AGILE Cognitive Ability® and Thriving Index® assessments help identify high-potential talent, predict engagement and happiness, and triple candidate selection success.
Lead With Confidence
PELA shows leaders exactly where they excel, where blind spots hide, and gives daily strategies to strengthen executive functions. The result? Smarter decisions, calmer leadership, and teams that actually execute.
You don’t lose leadership credibility all at once. It happens in moments. The meeting where your thoughts scatter. The plan that made sense, until it didn’t. The initiative everyone agreed on… and quietly stopped working on.
These moments don’t expose skill gaps. They expose executive function under load.
When stress spikes, some leaders stay present. Others snap, avoid, or over-control. Strong executive function keeps your thinking online when pressure rises, so you can listen, decide, and lead without emotional hijack.
Markets shift. Plans fail. Teams see it coming but leaders don’t always act in time. Cognitive flexibility is what lets you let go of what’s no longer working and rebuild fast, without defensiveness or delay.
Most breakdowns aren’t about ambition, they’re about follow-through. Executive function is what turns big goals into daily actions, keeps priorities steady, and prevents initiatives from quietly dying halfway through.
