reveals which of the four you are right now.
What is your Powerhouse Presence™ Profile?
When the stakes are high, the room decides in seconds whether to trust you. This measures exactly how you come across in those seconds.
Take the assessment →What does this measure?
The gap between how you think you come across and how you actually do.
Most communication advice measures one thing. Your slides. Your speaking rate. Your nerves. Each tells you something true about one part of the picture. None measures what can cost you the room: the gap between how you think you come across and how you actually do. It’s the difference between being the most capable person in the room and being taken as seriously as you know you should be; between knowing your worth and having the room feel it.
This assessment does. Across three dimensions: it measures your self-trust, presence, and message to reveal exactly how you land. Your profile gives you a name for it, and a roadmap for what comes next.
What you receive
On completion.
Self-Trust, Presence, and Message, each out of one hundred.
whether you speak up in the moment, or count yourself out before you're even in the room.
where your stated practice and your habits do not yet match.
chosen for you.
About Nine Minutes
Sixteen Questions
Immediate Results
By Karen Laos
The three dimensions
Self-Trust. Presence. Message.
Self-Trust.
Confidence, courage, identity, and mindset. The foundation of self-trust: how you feel about yourself before you say a word, which shapes everything that follows.
Presence.
Connection, likeability, energy, and credibility. How you show up, and how the room experiences you.
Message.
Clear, concise, and compelling content. What you say, and whether it lands, even when you have to think on your feet.
The method behind the instrument
What isn’t you?
Karen’s method rests on a single idea: the way you come across is not a fixed trait. It’s the sum of behaviors that have become habits, and habits are changeable. It’s a skill that can be learned. That voice inside, saying you’re not ready, is also not you; it is a habit with a name, and once you name the inner critic you can set it down. The assessment reads your habits across the three dimensions, then shows you the one gap most worth closing first.
Karen Laos has spent twenty-five years helping leaders at companies like Google, NASA, Netflix, Starbucks, and Sony become the most influential voice in the room. The assessment is that work, distilled into an assessment you can take in nine minutes.
Be Intentional in Your ResponsesFor the most accurate read
This is not a quiz to scroll through between meetings. The questions are calibrated to read something specific about how you come across, and the precision of your profile is determined by the honesty of your answers. Sit somewhere quiet. Read each one carefully. It takes about nine minutes.
Take the assessment →Before you begin
Frequently Asked Questions
How long does it take?
About nine minutes. Sixteen questions: eleven that measure your practice, three that check it against your habits, and two of context.
What do I receive?
Your Powerhouse Presence™ Profile, three dimension scores, a courage score, your Credibility Gap, and one calibrated next step.
Who is this for?
Anyone whose work involves high-stakes communication: executives, founders, entrepreneurs, leaders, and speakers. The presentation and the pitch, and the hard conversation where you have to speak up and stay composed. It measures where you are, not whether you have arrived.
Is there a cost?
The assessment is free.