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Your next step: take the Scorecard, then talk it through with Cyndi

Add the Growth Readiness Debrief. You take the free Scorecard. Dr. Cyndi Laurin reads your answers herself, writes your analysis, and walks you through it on a 30-minute call.

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Why a debrief with Cyndi matters

The Scorecard gives you ten answers. The value is in what they mean together.

Cyndi has spent thirty years helping organizations grow. When she reads your ten answers side by side, she can show you:

  • which stage your company is really in, based on your own answers
  • which parts of your business have grown at different speeds, and the friction that’s creating
  • the one bottleneck to fix first, so the rest can move

Patterns like these are easiest to see from the outside. The debrief gives you an experienced outside read of your business, and a conversation with Cyndi about what to do with it.

What you walk away with

  • The one bottleneck to fix first. Your Crisis Catalyst™, named, and why the other nine elements are waiting on it.
  • The stage you’re really in. Your center of gravity, with the evidence from your own answers. Not the stage on the strategic plan.
  • The friction nobody has named yet. Your span: how far apart your ten elements sit. In the book’s worked example, Decision-Making ran at Stage 1 while Response to Change ran at Stage 5. Four stages of daylight inside one business.
  • A shorter to-do list. What to work on now, what to hold, and what to pause. People tell us the pause list is the part they needed most.
  • A conversation, not just a document. A 30-minute debrief call with Cyndi to talk it through.

This is not automated. Cyndi reads your answers and writes the analysis herself.

So you know exactly what you’re buying: this is your read, not your team’s. The version where your leadership team answers independently is a bigger piece of work, and Cyndi will be in touch about it later. Start here.

What happens next

  1. 1
    Say yes on this page. It’s added to today’s order in one click.
  2. 2
    Take the Scorecard. Ten questions, about ten minutes, at guidetogreatness.com/scorecard. Cyndi’s clock starts when your answers come in.
  3. 3
    Read your analysis. Written by Cyndi, in your hands within 10 business days.
  4. 4
    Talk it through. Your booking link for the 30-minute debrief arrives by email right after you buy. Pick a time at least 10 business days out, so your analysis is ready first.

What one founder found

The founder of a boutique literary agency, about fifteen years in, took the Scorecard and got Cyndi’s written analysis back. Before she said a word about the document, she said this about her own answers:

“This has been so illuminating. Through the surveys, I realized that my mindset is what’s precluded us from being profitable.”

She had spent thousands of hours training three agents she eventually let go because their values didn’t match hers. It took seeing her own answers laid out to recognize what that pattern had been costing her.

Then she read the analysis:

“Oh my gosh, this is stunning. I read it over very quickly and will need to read it at least five more times slowly to actually comprehend it.”
“I’m sure I can’t afford to pay you what you actually charge and are worth, but I must pay you something.”

Client details anonymized at her request.

What the findings sound like

Real language from a real analysis:

“The values are right. The structure and economics just need to catch up.”
“The path forward is not to work harder. It is to work from a clearer, more shared design.”
“Silence around the money problem costs more than the conversation does.”

No blame and no scorecard shaming. Problems reframed as design questions, which is the only framing anyone can act on.

This is not for you if you’re looking for confirmation that what you’re already doing is working. The Scorecard won’t give you that, and neither will Cyndi. If the data says something you’d rather not hear, the whole value is in hearing it.

Growth Readiness Debrief

Your Scorecard, read by Dr. Cyndi Laurin · Written analysis within 10 business days · 30-minute debrief call

$297

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“Her expertise and strategic insights transformed our approach and the way we thought about achievable outcomes… providing actionable feedback where we immediately saw growth.”— Michelle Plante

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