The BIG. CEO Score

HOW WELL DO YOU RUN THE MAKE BIG HAPPEN SYSTEM?

The Business Diagnostic measures the company. The BIG. CEO Score measures you. Answer 20 questions to get your score, your archetype, and the tools that close your biggest gap.

20

Questions

8

Minutes

1,000

Point BIG. CEO Score

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Built on the system behind 3,500+ CEOs and senior leaders in 94 countries, $86B+ in client revenue, and 150+ exits worth over $30.1B (as of September 2026).

What you get

Your score is the first line, not the whole page.

Twenty sliders produce a written read on how you run the Make BIG Happen System. Not a category. A diagnosis, with the tools to close the gap.

Your BIG. CEO Score

One number out of 1,000, placed against the 900 benchmark we hold coached CEOs to.

Your level

Dreaming, Planning, Executing, Making BIG Happen, or BIG Machine. Where you sit today, and what the next rung asks of you.

Your four question scores

Clarity, The Plan, Foresight and Accountability, each out of 250, each against the benchmark. The shape tells you more than the total.

Your archetype

The pattern your four scores make, named. Six of them. One is yours.

Your ONE BIG next move

The single change that moves your weakest question, written against the BIG you stated in your own words.

Your prescription

Three to five CEO Coaching International tools, chosen for the two questions where you scored lowest.

The six archetypes

Your four scores make a shape. The shape has a name.

These are not a ranking. A CEO at 880 and a CEO at 540 can both be The Visionary, because the archetype describes the pattern, not the altitude. The score tells you how far along you are. The archetype tells you what to do about it.

The Visionary

“You see the mountain. You don’t yet have the route up it.”
Clarity is strong. The plan underneath it is not.

The Grinder

“Relentless execution, toward a target that’s too fuzzy or too small.”
The machine runs. The target it is pointed at does not deserve it.

The Firefighter

“Moving fast, blindsided by what you didn’t look for.”
Drive and a plan, undone by problems you could have seen coming.

The Sprinter

“You start BIG with energy, with no scoreboard to finish.”
Clarity and plans that fade between the kickoff and the finish line.

The Steady Builder

“Nothing’s broken. Something’s missing: audacity.”
Balanced across all four. The constraint is the size of the BIG.

The BIG Maker

“All four questions, answered and operating.”
The system is running. The only question left is whether the BIG is big enough.
Sample result

This is what lands.

A complete BIG. CEO Score result, start to finish. Name and company changed.

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