Deepen Your Transformational Change Practice
Understand your current capabilities and potential paths for growth.
Transformational change starts from within.
When familiar ways of leading and working no longer suffice, change confidence becomes more than optimism. It’s the grounded ability to stay centered and resilient in the face of uncertainty. The Transformational Competency Assessment (TCA) helps you identify the inner competencies and outer supports that enable you to thrive in times of transformation.
Grounded in Decades of Fieldwork
Developed by Grove CEO Gisela Wendling, Ph.D., this assessment draws on over 30 years of research and practice with leaders and systems in transformation.
It explores four interconnected dimensions of human-centered change: mind, body, heart and spirit, and is the foundation for three tailored pathways—for Individuals, for Guides and for Leaders.
What's Included
Step One: Mini-Workbook
Interactive exercises and reflections to help you prepare and make the most of your results.
Step Two: Online Assessment
A concise, insightful evaluation of your transformational agency across mind, body, heart and spirit dimensions.
Step Three: Personalized Report
Clear feedback highlighting strengths, growth areas and actionable next steps to enhance your transformational capacity.
Three Assessments to Build Your Transformational Agency
We offer three role-specific versions of the Transformational Competency Assessment (TCA). Each begins with the Individual Assessment, which helps you explore your own presence, resilience and growth edges. From this foundation, role-specific versions extend your learning to guiding or leading change.
Expand your impact by integrating the TCA into your organization or client engagements. Licensing gives you access to tools and best practices and support from The Grove’s experienced team—so you can deliver deeper insight and measurable growth across systems of change.
For the Individual (Available for direct purchase)
Use this assessment as a personal growth tool or license it to use with your clients to understand strengths and growth edges in navigating change.
For less than the cost of a single coaching session, you receive insights and practices you can return to again and again.
For the Guide (Available exclusively within Grove workshops and coaching engagements)
As part of our Stepping Into Your Transformational Agency workshop or as part of a coaching engagement, you will complete a guide-specific version that applies those insights directly to your guiding practice.
For the Leader (Available exclusively within Grove coaching and consulting engagements)
Deepen your understanding with a leader-specific version that highlights how these personal qualities influence organizational transformation as part of a coaching or consulting engagement.
The Change Maker’s Competency Wheel
A Transformational Competency Model
The Change Maker's Competency Wheel™ (Wheel) is the competency model upon which the Transformational Competency Assessment is based. The transformational competencies of the Wheel invite us to work with change not only as a process to navigate and lead but also as a practice to embody. It is grounded in the Wendling Liminal Pathways Change Framework™ and focuses on competencies needed to handle the uncertain and emergent process at the heart of transformational change.
Inspired by Gandhi’s use of the spinning wheel as a daily ritual of renewal and resistance, it serves as a metaphor for how we work with the generative and challenging tensions between what has been and what will be, applying liminal competencies to our inner development, and creating and using the outer support structures and resources needed to spin the thread required to weave new futures.
Next Steps
Leadership Coaching
We help leaders, internal consultants and OD professionals develop the inner awareness, resilience and presence to lead from within—while translating that growth into real-time insight, focused strategies and meaningful progress through personalized, one-on-one coaching.
Transformational Change Consulting
We know how to partner with leaders and teams to create the conditions for success. We are experienced process consultants passionate about the challenges you and your industry face.
The Change Maker's Competency Wheel Overview
In this free booklet, learn about the Change Maker’s Competency Wheel™, how these competencies support engaging in the most demanding yet ultimately rewarding aspects of the transformational process.