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.
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.
For Smartpreneur Consulting™
Free Self-Diagnostics
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.
Take the Bottleneck Self-Diagnostic →
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.
Paid Tools — Build Your Own Diagnostic Work
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.
Purchase the DIY Kit →
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.
Purchase the LD Self-Scan →
Practice Entry Point — Paid Engagement
Tools for founders, CEOs, CHROs, and senior operating leaders at entrepreneur-led small and mid-size businesses (20-500 employees) considering structured diagnostic work in their business operations, people systems, or AI integration.
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. Equity-adjusted pricing ($200-$300) available for BIPOC-owned and immigrant-owned businesses.
Book Your AI Opportunity Audit →
For The Grounded Leader™
Free Self-Diagnostics & Guides
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.
Take the Grounded Leader Assessment →
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.
Download the Cohort Design Guide →
Paid Self-Diagnostics
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.
Purchase the Self-Diagnostic →
Paid Micro Products by Coaching Archetype
Three archetype-calibrated paid micro-products at $47 each. Each is a 40-60 page PDF workbook calibrated to one of The Grounded Leader™ practice’s three disruption archetypes. Substantive content for leaders wanting archetype-specific developmental work without committing to a full coaching engagement.
Purchase produces credit equal to purchase price applicable toward subsequent Grounded Leader™ engagement.
Browse Archetype Micro-Products Below
Federal Leader’s Transition Playbook — $47
40-60 page 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.
Purchase the Federal Leader’s Transition Playbook →
AI Leader’s Confidence Guide — $47
40-60 page 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.
Purchase the AI Leader’s Confidence Guide →
DEI Leader’s Identity Bridge — $47
40-60 page 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.
Purchase the DEI Leader’s Identity Bridge →
Paid Assessment Batteries — Full Diagnostic Depth
Three archetype-calibrated assessment batteries (Institutional Transition / Organizational Disruption / Work Dismantled). Multi-instrument administration with archetype-specific findings reports. For leaders wanting substantive diagnostic depth equivalent to the engagement-entry battery.
Battery completion produces credit equal to battery purchase price applicable toward subsequent coaching engagement. Founding cohort members and LD Audit-included assessment takers receive the battery free during the validation period (through Q2 2027).
Battery pricing varies by archetype and is calibrated to your situation — founding cohort eligibility, Smartpreneur LD Audit inclusion, post-validation pricing, or independent battery purchase. The discovery call surfaces which pathway applies to you and the corresponding investment. Battery completion produces credit equal to the battery purchase price applicable toward subsequent coaching engagement — the diagnostic investment carries forward into the coaching engagement if you choose to engage further.
Book a Discovery Call for Battery Pricing & Pathway Recommendation →
Practitioner Resource
The Grounded Leader™ Field Guide — $197
120-150 page PDF 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).
Purchase the Field Guide →
For CP4CD Programs
Companion workbooks and self-diagnostics for the ten CP4CD Programs. Free self-diagnostics route to the program best calibrated to your situation; paid workbooks produce substantive standalone value AND apply as credit toward program enrollment within 6 months.
Free Self-Diagnostics — Find the Right Program
Cross-Program Pathway Diagnostic (Free)
25-35 items, 12-15 minutes. Practice-wide self-diagnostic identifying which of the ten programs best serves your situation. Produces primary program recommendation plus secondary program identification.
CTA: Take the Pathway Diagnostic →
Paid Workbooks — Standalone Value + Enrollment Credit
P3 Wealthy Woman Financial Identity Workbook — $67
60-80 pages. Addresses the psychological dimension of women’s financial confidence — the self-limiting money beliefs, the inherited money patterns, and the unconscious financial behavior shaped by lived experience. Walks through CP4CD’s framework for financial identity work using structured reflection on money beliefs origins, current operating patterns, and conscious reframing. Standalone-valuable for women wanting to develop their financial identity awareness independent of P3 enrollment.
$67 credit applies toward P3 enrollment within 6 months.
Purchase Wealthy Woman Financial Identity Workbook →
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 →