💡 ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Who gets promoted, and why? Most organizations still decide with gut instinct, and Logan Yonavjak’s data shows how often that goes wrong.
Logan is the co-founder and CEO of Readiness Engine, a leadership analytics firm. Her team scores transcripts from interviews, calls and presentations with three AI models plus human review, then links those scores to company performance. They look at how much complexity a person can hold, how they make decisions and how coachable they are. A high IQ, a strong résumé or a warm intro doesn’t answer those questions.
I’ve seen this in healthcare and in government, and odds are you’ve seen it too: people who fail up, claims of nepotism, smooth talkers who get the job. We talk about mispromotion, what your speech patterns say about how you lead, how Logan’s team keeps charisma and bias out of the scoring, and which industries could use this data most.
🌐 Readiness Engine: https://readinessengine.io
✉️ Email: faq@founderrl.com
📲 Logan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loganyonavjak
📲 Readiness Engine on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/readinessengine/
🎯 KEY TAKEAWAYS
🔹 Past performance doesn’t predict future readiness, and credentials or a warm intro won’t show if someone can lead
🔹 Strategic complexity, or how many perspectives a leader can hold at once, is a capacity you can measure
🔹 The way people structure their sentences shows how they process information and make decisions
🔹 Over-explaining a decision can signal uncertainty to others, even when the decision is sound
🔹 Several AI models, human review and anonymous scoring together reduce the bias of gut-feel promotions
🔹 The retirement wave and generational turnover are changing what organizations need from their leaders
TOPICS
LEADERSHIP
INNOVATION
STRATEGIC THINKING
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