Movement Leadership Indicators Assessment

Co-created with youth organizers and seasoned movement leaders.

The new standard for measuring civic leadership.

The Movement Leadership Indicators (MLI) is a leadership development framework designed to help folks see themselves more clearly as a leader. It’s an assessment focused on leaders think about who they are, and how that shows up in what they do.

This assessment is rooted in decades of evidence-based research on leadership development and organized around five domains:

  • Confidence & Identity

  • Emotional Intelligence & Relational Leadership

  • Agency & Action Orientation

  • Resilience & Adaptive Capacity

  • Sustainable Leadership & Collective Wellbeing

The purpose of this assessment is to help identify where leaders are already strong and where there’s room to grow, and to give PLIEF’s team of professional coaches a clear, detailed starting picture of leadership so they can tailor the coaching journey to what will actually help leaders reach your full leadership potential.

Learn more about the Five Leadership Domains

Across all five domains, growth follows a consistent pattern

Early Coaching Sessions

Growth is primarily:

  • Internal

  • Reflective

  • Experimental

  • Practice-oriented

Participants begin:

  • Naming patterns

  • Developing self-awareness

  • Building intentional habits

  • Testing new behaviors

  • Reframing individual leadership assumptions

Later Coaching Sessions

Growth becomes:

  • Relational

  • Organizational

  • Integrated

  • Systems-oriented

Participants increasingly:

  • Transfer personal learning into organizational practice

  • Build structures that support others

  • Normalize healthier leadership behaviors

  • Address root causes rather than symptoms

  • Develop cultures, not just individual habits

Our Scale of Leadership Growth