What does Leadership Risk Assessment evaluate?

Leadership Risk Assessment evaluates the specific risk factors that could cause an executive hire to fail: short tenure patterns, resource-dependency, relationship conflict patterns, and motivation mismatches. It produces a risk summary that accompanies every Majhi Group shortlist presentation.

Is a candidate with risk factors automatically disqualified?

No. All strong candidates carry some risk factors. The purpose of Leadership Risk Assessment is to make those factors visible and specific — so that the interview process, onboarding design, and final decision can account for them. The goal is informed decisions, not risk-free candidates.

Leadership Risk Assessment

The Risk Factors That Most Hiring Processes Miss

The risk factors that cause executive hires to fail are rarely visible in standard interviews. They emerge in structured deep-dives, independent references, and pattern analysis across a candidate's career history. The most common are: a track record of short tenures at critical moments, a pattern of success in resource-rich environments that may not transfer, a history of board or peer conflict that the candidate attributes entirely to others, and compensation expectations that signal a mismatch in motivation. These signals are not disqualifying — but they require assessment before the hire.

The Risk Assessment Process

Majhi Group's Leadership Risk Assessment is conducted at the assessment stage of every retained search — after the initial deep-dive conversation but before shortlist presentation. It involves pattern analysis of the candidate's career history, structured reference checks with individuals outside the candidate's reference list, and a structured risk summary that accompanies every shortlist presentation. This summary does not recommend a hire or a pass — it makes the risk profile visible so that the client can make an informed decision.

Risk as Context, Not Disqualification

Leadership Risk Assessment is not a filtration tool designed to eliminate candidates with any risk factors. All strong candidates have risk factors. The purpose is to make those risk factors visible and specific — so that onboarding can be designed to address them, the interview process can probe them, and the final decision can be made with full information. Clients who receive our risk assessments consistently report that they ask better questions and make more confident final decisions.

The Cost of Unassessed Risk

An executive hire that fails 12 months post-placement costs the company direct fees, re-search costs, lost momentum, team disruption, and opportunity cost during the gap period. The total cost typically exceeds $400,000 for a VP-level role. Leadership Risk Assessment is an investment in preventing this — one that pays for itself many times over.