Start with the thinking.
Tools for professionals and business owners ready to do the foundational work before committing to a cohort, audit, or coaching engagement — or on their own terms.
Every paid tool is a doorway. Workbooks, diagnostics, and assessments produce substantive standalone value AND credit equal to the purchase price toward subsequent engagement — the investment carries forward into the work if you choose to engage further for up to 6 months.
Exclusions only apply to the standard and comprehensive audits. Whichever audit tier you choose, a credit equal to the Standard Audit fee — $597 — applies toward a subsequent Strategic Implementation Roadmap for up to one year. The credit is largest when you move quickly: the full $597 within 30 days of your findings session, stepping down over the following months.
Organized by Practice
Digital Tools across the three CP4CD practices are organized by which practice they serve as entry point: Smartpreneur Consulting™ for business owners and senior operating leaders; The Grounded Leader™ for individual leaders navigating identity-level disruption; Human Development Programs for cohort program participants and self-directed development.
Free self-diagnostics are designed for self-qualification — take the diagnostic, receive the routing recommendation, decide whether to proceed without committing budget. Paid workbooks, assessment batteries, and diagnostic instruments produce substantive standalone value AND apply as credit toward subsequent engagement within defined windows.
Smartpreneur Consulting™ Products
Bottleneck Mapping Self-Diagnostic (Free)— 20-25 items, 10-15 minutes. Identifies where in your business operations value is leaking — hiring, retention, leadership pipeline, learning effectiveness, AI integration, or directional clarity. Routes to the Smartpreneur audit area best calibrated to your situation.
AI Readiness Profile (Free) — 15-20 items, 10 minutes. Places your business on the AI Maturity Ladder (Awareness → Experimentation → Adoption → Integration → Optimization) and tells you where to start. Companion to the AI Opportunity Audit™ paid engagement.
Human Capital Audit™ — $597 Standard / $997 Comprehensive
The full diagnostic engagement across your people systems: a 90-minute session covering 7 areas — HR strategy and business alignment, organizational design and role clarity, total rewards and compensation equity, performance management, employee relations and compliance, HR systems and data, and HR capability and business-partner effectiveness — and 26 questions, a written findings report within 24-48 hours, specific recommendations with prioritized focus areas, and a clear first implementation plan.
Talent Management Audit™ — $597 Standard / $997 Comprehensive
The full diagnostic engagement across your talent lifecycle: a 90-minute session covering 7 areas — workforce planning and strategy, sourcing and recruiting, selection and hiring, onboarding and integration, retention and engagement, succession and internal mobility, and talent metrics and accountability — and 26 questions, a written findings report within 24-48 hours, specific recommendations with prioritized focus areas, and a clear first implementation plan.
Smartpreneur LD Self-Scan — $97
30-minute leadership behavior audit across five dimensions — strategic communication, decision rights, delegation, accountability, and team-development behavior. For founder-CEOs evaluating leadership development priorities before committing to a full Leadership Development Audit.
Purchase produces credit equal to $97 applicable toward subsequent Smartpreneur Leadership Development engagement within 6 months.
AI Opportunity Audit™ DIY Kit — $197
Run your own AI Opportunity Audit using the structured framework Dr. DuBose uses with clients. 7 opportunity areas, 26 diagnostic questions, scoring rubric, findings worksheet, and a 90-day implementation roadmap template. For founders who want substantive diagnostic depth without a consultant engagement — or who want to do the audit work before deciding whether to engage Smartpreneur Consulting™ directly.
Purchase produces credit equal to $197 applicable toward subsequent Smartpreneur AI Opportunity Audit™ engagement within 6 months.
Leadership Development Audit™ — $597 Standard / $997 Comprehensive
The full diagnostic engagement across your leadership and change-execution capability: a 90-minute session covering 9 areas — top-leadership sponsorship, coherent mission and integrated goals, focused principles and priorities, implementation goals and timeline, dedicated implementation capacity, performance management and accountability, communication strategy, employee involvement and ownership, and building leadership capability — and 27 questions, a written findings report within 24-48 hours, specific recommendations with prioritized focus areas, and a clear first implementation plan.
AI Opportunity Audit™ —
$597 Standard / $997 Comprehensive
The full diagnostic engagement: 90-minute session covering 7 opportunity areas and 26 questions, written findings report within 24-48 hours, specific recommendations with ROI estimates, and a clear first implementation plan.
Where genuine need exists, we consider access-based pricing individually — discussed as part of your audit findings, not advertised as a set rate.
Pathfinder Discovery™ — $1,497 Standard / $2,997 Comprehensive
For individual founders, aspiring founders, and career changers at a directional inflection point — where the question isn't how to fix a business, but which venture direction to build. A guided three-session engagement over two to three weeks, anchored in a validated assessment battery plus a market-opportunity analysis, that converges your profile, strengths, values, and market opportunity into a validated venture direction. You leave with the foundation for your Build & Operate Phase decision — Strategic Build Plan, Operator Placement, Co-Founder Track, or Operator Network.
Your Discovery investment credits $1,497 toward a subsequent Pathfinder Strategic Implementation Roadmap.
Learning & Development Audit™ — $597 Standard / $997 Comprehensive
The full diagnostic engagement across your L&D system: a 90-minute session covering 7 areas — learning strategy and needs analysis, program design and delivery, and the four Kirkpatrick evaluation levels (reaction, learning, behavior and transfer, and results), plus manager reinforcement and infrastructure — and 26 questions, a written findings report within 24-48 hours, specific recommendations with prioritized focus areas, and a clear first implementation plan.
Products for The Grounded Leader™
Grounded Leader Assessment (Free)
Approximately 30 items, 12-15 minutes. Identifies which of the three archetypes best fits your current situation (Institutional Transition / Organizational Disruption / Work Dismantled), indicates developmental readiness, and produces an engagement track recommendation. Primary entry point into the practice.
Cohort Design Guide for HR Buyers (Free)
For CHROs, Chief People Officers, Heads of Talent, and Heads of L&D evaluating coaching cohorts for their organizations. Documents the cohort architecture (Mid-Market and Enterprise/C-Suite tiers), methodology behind cohort design and sequencing, sponsor-versus-client confidentiality architecture, sample cohort structures, and sample outcomes documentation.
Leadership Disruption Self-Diagnostic — $47
Deeper diagnostic for leaders who completed the free Grounded Leader Assessment and want substantive findings before considering coaching engagement. Includes archetype-specific developmental priorities, disruption pattern recognition, and reading list calibrated to the archetype.
Purchase produces credit equal to $47 applicable toward subsequent Grounded Leader™ engagement.
Federal Leader’s Transition Playbook — $47
PDF workbook for federal workers and public sector leaders navigating displacement from institutional context. Walks through the four-phase federal-to-private transition framework, the identity work specific to losing institutional context as the structure within which professional identity operated, reading on the post-federal career arc, and a reflection-driven decision framework for what comes next. Includes the DMV-specific market analysis given the current federal workforce displacement concentration.
Calibrated to Archetype 1: The Leader in Institutional Transition.
Purchase produces credit equal to $47 applicable toward subsequent Grounded Leader™ engagement within 6 months.
AI Leader’s Confidence Guide — $47
PDF workbook for executives leading organizations through AI transformation faster than their identity is adapting. Walks through the AI Anxiety Scale (AIAS) framework and self-administration, AI confidence development specific to executive leadership, the distinction between AI fluency (knowing the tools) and AI confidence (knowing yourself in relationship to the tools), and the AI-proof identity statement development methodology. Based on the AIAS — the AI Anxiety Scale that anchors the Archetype 2 Battery.
Calibrated to Archetype 2: The Leader Navigating Organizational Disruption.
Purchase produces credit equal to $47 applicable toward subsequent Grounded Leader™ engagement within 6 months.
DEI Leader’s Identity Bridge — $47
PDF workbook for senior leaders whose DEI work has been dismantled by executive order, organizational reversal, or restructuring. Walks through the grief-work specific to dismantled-work identity rupture, the distinction between professional identity and load-bearing identity work, the reading on identity-systemic separation work, and a reframing methodology for what’s next when the work has been taken away. Carries the BIPOC practitioner-depth dimension specific to this archetype.
Calibrated to Archetype 3: The Leader Whose Work Was Dismantled.
Purchase produces credit equal to $47 applicable toward subsequent Grounded Leader™ engagement within 6 months.
The Grounded Leader™ Field Guide — $197
Practitioner guide to identity-level disruption work — for executive coaches, organizational development practitioners, and senior HR professionals doing this work in their own practice. Includes the dissertation framework foundation, the three-archetype identification protocol, the Pre-Session Intelligence Brief methodology, and the assessment battery selection logic. Not a substitute for certification (see Certified Coach Network for that pathway).
Note: As a practitioner resource for coaches and consultants doing this work in their own practice, the Field Guide does not produce credit toward a Grounded Leader™ coaching engagement. For practitioners interested in formal certification, see the Grounded Leader Certified Coach Network (Q3 2027 activation).
Your Tool Purchase Carries Forward
Every paid Digital Tools purchase — workbooks, diagnostic kits, assessment batteries, supplementary instruments — produces credit equal to the purchase price that applies toward subsequent CP4CD engagement.
Smartpreneur DIY Kit purchases credit toward subsequent Smartpreneur engagements; Grounded Leader paid products credit toward subsequent Grounded Leader coaching; Programs workbooks credit toward program enrollment. Credits apply within defined windows (typically 6 months from purchase) and reduce the engagement fee at signing.
Credits also accumulate across the engagement lifecycle through above-and-beyond contributions — testimonials, case studies, conference co-presentation, qualified referrals. The CP4CD Rewards & Credit Program governs the full credit architecture across all three practices.
Learn about the CP4CD Rewards & Credit Program →