Leadership intelligence
What is leadership intelligence?
Leadership intelligence is software that measures how managers lead, from the everyday work where leading happens, such as meetings, and turns it into evidence for the organization and private guidance for each manager. Parafoil is leadership intelligence: it analyzes the meetings an organization already runs, with the consent of the people in them, and shows where leadership is working, where teams are strained and where change is stalling, team by team.
What it measures
How managers lead, read from the work itself
Parafoil analyzes the meetings managers already run, with each person's consent and no bot in the call. Each team is compared with its own normal, so real change stands out and a busy week doesn't.
How managers lead
Leadership styles, such as Coaching, Democratic and Decisive, and how each manager's mix shifts week to week.
Manager effectiveness
Clarity, feedback, delegation and coaching, calibrated against the judgment of experienced leaders.
How decisions get made
Who decides, who's consulted, and which decisions keep coming back for a second discussion.
How teams work
1:1 rhythm, after-hours meeting load, and which teams work together and where those links are fading.
Who uses it
Everyone who answers for how the organization is led
Parafoil is core infrastructure for the CHRO, and each role gets the part of the read it needs.
CHROs and HR leaders
Evidence on manager effectiveness across the organization, and early signals of where to pay attention.
See how →HR business partners
A weekly view of how the teams they cover are led, with the shifts worth a conversation.
See how →People analytics
A weekly behavioral signal, cut by team, level or cohort, through the API or CSV.
See how →L&D and talent development
Before-and-after evidence for leadership development and manager training programs.
See how →Change and transformation leaders
Which teams have changed how they decide and work, and where the change is stalling.
See how →Managers
Private guidance after their real meetings, measured against their own goals.
See how →How it differs
How it compares with the tools you already have
- Engagement surveys
- A survey captures what people say when they're asked, once or twice a year. Leadership intelligence shows how teams are being led every week, from the work itself. Parafoil can replace the engagement survey, and whether you keep the survey is your choice. If you keep it, Parafoil helps explain what it finds.
- 360 reviews
- A 360 collects colleagues' opinions of a manager at one point in time. Leadership intelligence measures how the manager leads in real meetings, week after week. The manager's feedback stays private and never becomes a score or a review.
- Coaching
- A coach works with a few leaders for a few hours at a time. Parafoil gives every manager specific, private guidance after their real meetings, and shows the organization whether leadership is changing across teams.
- Meeting notetakers
- A notetaker joins the call and writes down what was said. Parafoil has no bot in the call and reads how people lead: how clear the direction is, who decides and who's consulted. What comes out is guidance for the manager and team-level evidence for the organization.
What an organization gets
Evidence on how the organization is led, every week
Evidence on manager effectiveness
How leadership is showing up across the organization, team by team, with the basis stated for every figure.
Leading indicators of performance
Early signs of risk and momentum in how teams work, weeks before they show up in results or resignations.
Program impact
Before-and-after evidence for leadership development and change programs, against a comparison group a CFO will accept.
Answers where you already work
Ask Parafoil in your own words on the web, in Slack, Claude or ChatGPT, and get a summary every Monday.
Privacy
Private for every leader, so the organization can trust what it sees
Everyone in the meeting can be told and asked first. That's why people lead naturally, and why the data is worth trusting.
Each person sees their own read
A manager's feedback goes to that manager alone. It never becomes a score or a review.
Teams, never individuals
The organization sees patterns for teams of five managers or more, never what one person said or did.
No voiceprints, ever
Parafoil never creates or stores a voiceprint. Its own capture runs on the host's device, with no bot in the call.
Independently audited
SOC 2 Type II, independently audited, with a Trust Center your security team will recognize.
Questions
Leadership intelligence, answered
What is leadership intelligence?
Leadership intelligence is software that measures how managers lead, from everyday work such as meetings, and turns it into evidence for the organization and private guidance for each manager. Parafoil is a leadership intelligence platform.
What does leadership intelligence software measure?
How managers lead in their everyday work: leadership styles, clarity, feedback, delegation and coaching, how decisions get made, and conditions such as 1:1 rhythm and after-hours meeting load. Parafoil measures these from the meetings an organization already runs, and compares each team with its own normal.
Who uses leadership intelligence?
CHROs and HR leaders, HR business partners, people analytics teams, L&D and talent development, and change and transformation leaders. Managers use it too: each one gets private guidance after their own meetings.
Can leadership intelligence replace the engagement survey?
Parafoil can, and whether you keep the survey is your choice. A survey asks people how things are at one point in time. Leadership intelligence shows how teams are being led every week, which also explains what a survey finds.
How is it different from a meeting notetaker?
A notetaker writes down what was said. Leadership intelligence reads how people lead, and turns that into private guidance for each manager and team-level evidence for the organization. Parafoil has no bot in the call.
Is it private?
Each manager's feedback goes to that manager alone, and the organization sees teams of five managers or more, never individuals. Everyone in a meeting can be told and asked first. Parafoil never creates voiceprints, and it is SOC 2 Type II, independently audited.
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