Leadership Influence Assessment for Leaders and Coaches
In the AI era, a leader's success depends on the ability to turn knowledge into impact. PINE Perspective is a competency profile designed to develop your Influence Agility™: the political and ethical skills that let you lead without formal authority and create real impact in the workplace. Where traditional psychometric tests describe your traits, the PINE profile measures what you can accomplish and gives you concrete coaching points to get there.
Get Started Today
Eligible for continuing education hours
- Barreau du Québec
- Ordre des comptables professionnels agréés du Québec (CPA)
- Ordre des conseillers en ressources humaines agréés (CRHA)
- Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ)
'Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet.' PINE Perspective offers tools to work at the intersections of these three elements.
'Building power and influence skills is not about changing who you are or becoming someone else. It is about adding a set of activities and skills to your repertoire to become more effective and successful.' Jeffrey Pfeffer is a Stanford professor and global authority on power literature.
'Whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is possible to develop the conception of power-with, a jointly developed power, a coactive, not a coercive power.' Mary Parker Follett was an early authority on organizational behavior, recognized as one of the founders of modern management and power dynamics in leadership.
Elevate your influence with a research backed method.
The PINE acronym is no accident. Each letter corresponds to a fundamental dimension of Influence Agility™. The PINE report measures the following.
Learn more about the Pine assessmentPerceive
Landscape Reading
Understand hidden dynamics: networks, alliances, tensions, and emotions. Anticipate change and read what goes unsaid.
Inspire
Projected Authenticity
Project a consistent, credible image of yourself. Align who you are with how others perceive you.
Navigate
Relationship Navigation
Build strategic alliances, manage stakeholders, and secure access to resources within complex structures.
Execute
Decision Compass™
Identify the criteria that guide your decisions. How do you act in the face of uncertainty, conflicting values, and ambiguity?
You've invested in color profiles. PINE builds on that foundation.
Psychometric and color profiles lay a solid foundation of self-knowledge. PINE takes it further, turning that knowledge into impact: how to intentionally use your style to grow your influence in complex environments.
What Pine helps you activate
Influence Agility™
Learn to shape perceptions, guide behaviors, and influence outcomes through relational means without relying on formal authority.
Decision Compass™
Discover your decision-making style. Understand how you determine the right course of action and what guides your choices.
DISC Alignment
Leverage your DISC profile (4-color model) to strengthen your Influence Agility and leadership style.
A competency profile designed to create real impact.
Whether you're developing your skills, coaching others, or building organizational capability, Pine has targeted solutions for every leadership journey.
For Individuals
Work on your influence
Leaders, managers, advisory professionals (lawyers, accountants, engineers, consultants), and project managers. Get a personalized roadmap and concrete tools to grow your influence.
For Coaches
Add PINE to your practice.
Put the PINE model to work for your clients and take leadership development further. Offer a diagnostic tool that builds on existing strengths and integrates the DISC approach.
For Organizations
Develop leadership at scale.
Ideal for matrix structures, Agile environments, and high-potential programs. API/SSO integration with all HR systems. Deployment in under 14 days.
Enhanced with 360-Degree Feedback
Combine self-assessment with anonymous peer feedback from up to 7 colleagues. Our 360-degree evaluation reveals how others truly perceive your influence style, creating powerful insights for targeted development. See how your colleagues perceive your influence style compared to your own self-assessment, revealing blind spots and opportunities for growth.
See how your colleagues perceive your influence style compared to your own self-assessment, revealing blind spots and opportunities for growth.
Coach-Guided Process
360-degree feedback is available exclusively through certified Pine coaches who guide you through the setup, collection, and interpretation of results.
Colleague Perspective: Landscape Reading
5 colleagues responded
There is some variation in how colleagues view your skills in this area.
Your colleagues see you as more skilled at reading organizational dynamics than you rated yourself.
Beyond traditional tests
| Feature | Traditional Psychometric Tests | Pine Perspective |
|---|---|---|
| Measures Influence Agility™ | ||
| Identifies behavioral tendencies | ||
| Provides specific coaching strategies | ||
| Includes 360-degree feedback option | ||
| Research-backed framework |
The Key Difference
PINE Perspective builds on your profile to maximize your influence and leadership impact. We draw on frameworks like DISC but focus on the actionable skills that predict career success and organizational effectiveness.
Learn How It WorksA research-based approach
The PINE Profile is grounded in the recognized academic scales of political skill, an established field of research in organizational behavior. The PINE Perspective team developed the Decision Compass™ (the Execute dimension) through factor analysis, and each of its dimensions shows internal consistency of α ≥ 0.80.
The result: a competency profile whose development recommendations are actionable from the very first coaching session. Outcome validity studies are ongoing, and we report their status openly on our Science page.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is influence agility?
Influence agility is the ability to read organizational dynamics, navigate relationships effectively, and project authentic leadership presence. It measures your political skill across three core dimensions: Landscape Reading, Relationship Navigation, and Projected Authenticity.
How is Pine Perspective different from psychometric tests?
Pine Perspective measures what a leader can do: read organizational dynamics, navigate relationships and influence in complex situations. Personality tools such as DISC describe behavioral preferences. Pine uses DISC as an input and reports on influence capability.
What is political skill in leadership?
Political skill is the ability to understand others and use that knowledge to influence them to act in ways that enhance your personal or organizational objectives. Research shows political skill is a key predictor of leadership effectiveness, career success, and organizational influence.
Who should use Pine Perspective?
Pine Perspective is designed for emerging and established leaders seeking career advancement, executive coaches adding diagnostic tools to their practice, HR professionals training employees, and organizations developing leadership at scale across marketing, sales, and management teams.
How does Pine integrate with DISC profiles?
Pine uses your DISC profile as an input. Your DISC style is entered or answered during the assessment, and the report shows how to apply that style deliberately when you influence stakeholders. The Pine report covers influence capability and the Decision Compass; it does not produce a DISC profile.