What bad leadership is actually costing your organization.
Bad leadership is the largest preventable cost in the global economy. The math below uses your organization’s real numbers to estimate what you could be losing every year — and what a single coaching engagement could return.
What You Receive
When you complete the audit, you receive a per-domain score across alignment, capacity, and endurance; an estimated annual cost figure based on your organization’s size and conditions; a tier recommendation indicating which engagement is the best starting fit; and an invitation to discuss the results in a Discovery Conversation — at no cost, no obligation.
Four inputs. One year of math.
Full-time equivalents, including yourself.
A rough average across the organization. U.S. median is ~$60,000–$80,000.
Not sure? Quick estimate: (people who left in the past 12 months ÷ current headcount) × 100. If you can’t recall, use 15% — the U.S. average across most industries.
Your honest read on how engaged your team feels. 1 = checked out. 10 = fully invested.
Most people aren’t sure yet, and that’s fine. The Discovery Conversation is where this gets clarified.
Estimated Annual Loss
$0
in preventable cost, every year your leadership culture stays where it is.
Lost productivity
$0
From team disengagement
Turnover cost
$0
Hiring + onboarding + ramp
That’s about 0% of your total payroll, or roughly 0 full-time hires worth of value, lost every year.
Now — what an engagement could save, and what it could grow.
Projected Annual Value
$0
in money saved and new value created on a single coaching engagement — every year you invest in your leaders.
Projection based on published research. Not a guarantee of results.
What you’d pay us: —
For every $1 invested in coaching, industry research projects about $5 in measurable return (ICF / PwC)
Your gain (after our fee): —
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These numbers are directional, not destiny.
Every organization is different. The Discovery Conversation is where the rough math becomes a real read on your specific context — and where the right engagement is scoped to what your team actually needs.
Without action, the cost compounds. With action, so does the value — recovered cost, deeper impact, and the capacity to grow what you’re building.
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In plain words. We estimate two things: what bad leadership is costing you now (lost productivity from disengagement, plus the cost of replacing departing employees), and what a coaching engagement could return (industry research projects about $5 in measurable return for every $1 invested in executive coaching). The Discovery Conversation is where these rough estimates become specific to your context.
Lost productivity from disengagement. Engagement self-rating modulates an industry-standard productivity-loss factor (per-employee impact of 2–16% depending on rating, calibrated to align with Gallup’s population-weighted average of approximately 9% at the U.S. median). Grounded in Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2025, which estimates the worldwide cost of disengagement at $9.6 trillion, and Gallup’s manager-variance research showing that 70% of the variance in team engagement traces to a single person: the manager.
Cost of turnover. Industry benchmarks place the all-in cost of replacing an employee at 50–200% of annual salary (recruiting, onboarding, ramp time, and lost productivity during transition). This audit uses a conservative blended rate of 75% of annual salary.
ROI projection. The 5× figure is drawn from the International Coach Federation / PwC Global Coaching Study, which surveyed organizations on the financial impact of executive coaching engagements. Productivity gains are corroborated by Olivero, Bane & Kopelman (Public Personnel Management), who found that training alone lifts productivity by 22% while training paired with coaching lifts it by 88%.
Corroborating research. The methodology aligns with additional published findings. McKinsey estimates U.S. disengagement at $322–$355 billion annually, corroborating Gallup’s productivity-loss framework. The Metrix Global coaching ROI study reports a 7.69× return on executive coaching investment, sitting above the conservative end of the ICF/PwC range. Research from the Center for Creative Leadership and the DDI Global Leadership Forecast both provide additional empirical support for the link between leadership culture and organizational performance used in the calculations above.
What this audit doesn’t capture. The calculation counts two specific cost categories — productivity loss from disengagement, and the direct cost of replacing departing employees. Bad leadership creates other costs the audit doesn’t try to measure: opportunity cost from delayed or wrong strategic decisions, customer churn from disengaged customer-facing teams, recruiting drag from morale signals visible to candidates, the compounding effect of leadership patterns left unfixed year over year, compliance and reputational risk from poorly led teams, wellness and burnout costs that surface as healthcare claims and absenteeism, the loss of innovation and discretionary effort that engaged teams produce, and leadership succession risk when a key leader departs unprepared. If anything, the audit is likely conservative — these are real costs of bad leadership, just too organization-specific to estimate from four inputs.
Important. This audit provides directional estimates only. It is not an audited financial projection, financial advice, legal advice, business advice, or a guarantee of outcomes. Calculations apply third-party research to inputs you provide; actual costs and returns vary by industry, role mix, organizational context, and many factors outside this calculator's scope. Engaging Renewal Leadership does not guarantee specific financial or organizational outcomes. The Discovery Conversation is where the math becomes specific to your situation. By using this tool, you acknowledge that any decisions made based on these results are your own and you agree to our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.