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Leadership Intelligence

Turn data into decisions. Drive real change.

LeadershipIntel shows you, in about fifteen minutes, whether your organization's monitoring and evaluation work is actually shaping decisions, or just filling reports nobody revisits.

No cost. No account needed. Takes about 15 minutes.

A real finding, same organization, same system
4.5
Senior
Leadership
2.5
Program &
Field Staff
A 2.0-point gap on whether strategy actually reaches daily work — invisible until someone asked both groups.
What is LeadershipIntel

MEL, reframed as leadership intelligence.

LeadershipIntel helps organizations see whether their monitoring and evaluation work is actually informing decisions, by taking an evidence-first approach that asks the questions most internal reviews skip: does strategy actually reach the people doing daily work? Does data get discussed and acted on, or filed and forgotten? Is it clear who owns the follow-through when a finding demands a response?

Quite often, this clarity is missing, or leadership and field teams have a very different picture of the same system. LeadershipIntel combines a short, honest self-assessment with, where useful, certified team coaching and structured critical thinking, to help your organization agree what it needs to deliver, connect that to how data is actually used, and build a shared, collectively-owned way forward.

The real cost

Most M&E budgets aren't too small. They're not being used.

When data gets collected but never discussed, three things happen quietly, and all three cost real money.

Programs run longer than they should

Without a working feedback loop, a struggling approach keeps consuming program budget until the next external evaluation catches it, months or years too late.

Compliance risk builds unseen

Gaps in data quality or reporting are cheap to fix early and expensive to discover during a funder audit or a grant renewal.

Your M&E team burns out and leaves

An isolated M&E lead carrying accountability nobody else shares is a retention risk, and replacing that expertise costs more than preventing the isolation.

“In God we trust. Everyone else must bring data.”

W. Edwards Deming, statistician and management thinker
The evidence

This isn't just a theory. It's measurable.

Independent, peer-reviewed research backs the same pattern LeadershipIntel is built to find.

77%

Net increase in the regularity of structured performance reviews among district health teams that adopted data-driven decision-making practice, in a cluster-randomised trial across 24 districts in Ethiopia.

Avan et al., BMJ Global Health, 2024
3×

Highly data-driven organizations are three times more likely to report significant improvements in decision-making than organizations that rely less on data.

PwC survey, via Harvard Business School Online
What we offer

From a free session to a full team engagement.

Start free, with a live conversation or a self-serve diagnostic. If it points to real work, we offer structured support at whatever depth your organization needs.

Free Session Free

A short, live conversation to learn how LeadershipIntel works and whether it's a fit for your organization. No pressure, no pitch, just a chance to ask questions directly.

Free Diagnostic Free

An 18-question, 15-minute self-assessment scoring your organization on strategy-execution alignment, measurement-to-insight conversion, and team accountability. Produces a scored, organization-specific report.

Extended Inquiry

The foundation-setting step for any deeper engagement: document review, a structured team self-assessment rating where you are today against where you need to be, a facilitated group session, and structured interviews. Also where we contract together and, if it's the right fit, define the agenda and duration for a Full Engagement.

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Strategy Workshop

A single, focused facilitated session building a shared, jointly owned action plan with your leadership and program teams.

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Full Engagement Flagship

A sustained engagement that transforms how your teams relate to data, from sharing and reporting into real engagement, co-created and acted on together. Typically 3, 6, or 12 months, built with your leadership, M&E team, and program managers together.

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Latest thinking

From the blog

The published framework behind LeadershipIntel, in our own words, and where it's been featured.

Who built this

Dr. Fasika Mekonen

Founder and Managing Director of DEBBO Solutions. 20+ years leading monitoring, evaluation, and learning for donor-funded and government programs across Africa, including a real-time performance system later recognized as the strongest of its kind among EU Delegations surveyed globally.

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Fifteen minutes. A clear, honest picture. No cost.

Answer eighteen short questions about how your organization actually uses data today. You'll get a scored, organization-specific report you can act on immediately.

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