Evaluating senior leaders well takes more than goodwill.
Councils, boards of governors, library boards, utility commissions — the people on them are smart and well-intentioned. Evaluating a CAO, an executive director, or a president is a specialized skill, and a part-time elected or volunteer body has a different role to play.
That's where an independent third party comes in. BlueChip brings rigor, neutrality, and a structured process to the evaluation, so the board, the leader, and the public can all stand behind the result.
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You're a council, board, or commission chair. Annual evaluation season is approaching and you want a process you can trust — one the board, the leader, and the public will stand behind.
You're a CAO, executive director, president, or general manager. It's been a while since you had a structured performance conversation with your board, council, or commission. You'd like a clear read on where you stand and what the next twelve months look like.
You're an HR director or senior leader. Your senior executive's evaluation is technically your problem to coordinate. You'd like someone external to hold the process so you can support the board and the leader without being in the middle of it.
Four ways we work with you.
Governance Evaluations
A facilitated, structured evaluation of your CAO, executive director, president, or GM. Stakeholder interviews, validated leadership assessments, a written report, a council or board presentation, and a forward-looking performance plan. Six-month cycles. Optional follow-up at the half-year mark.
Learn more →Leadership Academies
Nine-month, in-person leadership development cohorts for senior leaders in government, post-secondary, and public agencies. One full day per month, September through May. Eight to twelve participants per cohort, designed so leaders learn alongside peers in comparable roles. Each cohort begins and ends with a leadership assessment, so participants can see how they've grown.
Learn more →Embedded HR Retainers
Senior HR thinking embedded inside your organization, focused on the decisions that shape your next chapter. Two tiers: Essential Advisory and Strategic Growth.
Learn more →Assessments
Validated psychometric assessments and an organizational diagnostic. Used inside major services or available on their own.
Learn more →Why we're built for this work.
BlueChip brings together a few different kinds of experience that don't usually sit in one place.
An undergraduate degree in education. A Master's in coaching. Years of senior HR experience — training and development, recruitment, investigations — inside complex organizations, where good people decisions show up on the bottom line. A track record of building and delivering wide-ranging leadership development programs. Twenty-five years of high-stakes decision-making — using data to make better decisions under pressure, with money and ego on the line. Post-secondary teaching. Public-sector administration.
That cross-domain background matters because evaluating senior leaders is rarely a single-discipline problem. It's part performance review, part political navigation, part risk management. BlueChip brings all of them to the table.
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Four short diagnostics. Each takes under ten minutes and lands you with a result you can act on. Use them on their own, or bring the result into a Clarity Call.
- Org Pulse → — 5-minute organizational health audit.
- Decision Quality Index → — 18 questions on how you actually make decisions under pressure.
- The Workplace Read → — 18 questions for employees and employers navigating a difficult workplace situation.
- The Supervisor Blind Spot → — 10 questions on your supervisor archetype and an area that often shapes how you show up as a leader.