Welcome to LeadershipEnergizes360!
How it works
THE TOOL
This tool measures your leadership impacts as a snapshot in time across three broad areas: Individual Behavior and Characteristics, Group and Team Processes, and Organizational Context. The 360-degree assessment collects observations from you as well as from those to whom you report, your peers, and those who report to you.
Leadership Energizes 360! is specifically designed for current and emerging leaders who are serious about their professional development and growth. This web-based assessment has been designed to address your goals and ensure a positive experience for users.
ASSESMENT PROCESS
The 54-question survey takes about 15 minutes to complete; fifty questions are on a quick-click rating scale and four questions are open-ended. The web-based approach can be completed on desktop or mobile devices.
Each category and question is specifically designed based on extensive research and over 150 years of combined study and practice. Research from prominent thought leaders influenced the questions and results narratives.
RESULTS
Results are personalized based on observer feedback and, if the minimum requirements are met, available 30-days from the initial participant welcome email. Final reports include a description of the results and, to increase impacts, reflection questions guide future professional development. It can be saved and printed as a PDF.
LeadershipEnergizes360! takes a proactive leadership approach, emphasizing how leaders become catalysts for change as opposed to focusing on positional, relational, or personal power stances.
How Leadership Energizes Is Different
Assessment results add layers of self-awareness through three main areas: completing the survey, receiving the results, and being guided through a reflective journey–that’s the really cool part! While most 360 assessments stop at the observer feedback, our approach allows your input one more time before the report is finalized. This gives you the opportunity to share thoughts on your present and future approaches by category.
The assessment’s foundation is influenced by the practically applied, leading books in the field, Organizational Behavior (Nahavandi, et.al; 2015; Sage) and Managing Human Behavior in Public and Nonprofit Organizations (Denhardt, et.al; 5th ed.; 2020; Sage). For those participants that are looking for additional information, the report identifies which chapter(s) are most helpful by category.
This 360 is not intended to up-sell you to other products or services, as some other 360s may attempt. It is designed with three different application approaches in mind: self-study, professional development trainings, and executive coaching.
Executive coaches use it with their clients one-on-one to advance understandings and shift behaviors. Once certified, the executive coach has access to their own account where they can access their clients’ reports.
Organizations use the 360 group accounts to complement in-house trainings.
Individuals take it to grow and learn at their own pace.
Areas of Assessment
Observations are collected across 10 leadership areas in three broad categories
Self-Awareness and Professional Development
Culture and Diversity
Communication and Engagement
Creativity and Innovation
Decision-Making
Team Approach
Managing Conflict and Negotiation
Organizational Influence and Politics
Organizational Strategy and Structure
Organizational Culture and Change
About us
Founders and Faculty
Paul Danczyk, PhD
Paul Danczyk, PhD, is the Leadership Energizes! co-founder and lead architect of the 360 assessments. He is the Director of Executive Education in Sacramento, at the Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California (USC). His professional contributions concentrate on national, state, local and nonprofit leadership and management. Paul is a featured presenter and executive coach, and designs, delivers, and evaluates public-sector executive training programs. He also teaches master-level classes at USC and, previously, at the Universidad Anáhuac, Mexico.
In professional communities, he serves in multiple leadership roles with the American Society for Public Administration at the national, regional, and local levels, including being the member-elected national president from 2019-2020, and was previously appointed by the Amador County Board of Supervisors to serve on the Behavioral Health Advisory Board and served on the Amador Community College Foundation board.
A returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Paul earned a PhD in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh; Master of Public Administration from USC; and BS, Education from Pennsylvania State University. He is a certified executive coach through the International Coaching Federation, trained at the Hudson Institute for Coaching, has a certificate in Mediating Disputes from Harvard Law School, and is certified in the Barrett’s Value Centre tools. Paul enjoys landscaping, creating sculptures, painting, and bee keeping.
Preferred pronouns: he/his/him
Janet Denhardt, DPA
Janet V. Denhardt, DPA, is the Chester A. Newland Professor of Public Administration and Director of the USC Price School in Sacramento. She was previously Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University. Dr. Denhardt is a member of the prestigious National Academy of Public Administration, the field’s equivalent of the National Academy of Science. She is the 2013 recipient of Charles Levine Award, given by American Society of Public Administration and the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) to recognize a public administration faculty member who has demonstrated excellence in three major areas of the field of teaching, research and service to the wider community.
Dr. Denhardt has published five books, including The Dance of Leadership, The New Public Service, Managing Human Behavior in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Public Administration: An Action Orientation, and Street Level Leadership. Several of these are in multiple editions and translations. She has also published numerous articles in professional journals, primarily in the areas of citizen engagement, leadership, and governance. She is a native of Seattle, Washington and she earned her doctorate in public administration from the University of Southern California.
Robert Denhardt, PhD
Robert Denhardt is the Leadership Energizes! co-founder, and a Professor and Director of Leadership Programs at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. Dr. Denhardt is well-known for his scholarship on the public service, public administration, organizational development, ethics, and leadership.
His major books include The Dance of Leadership, The New Public Service, Theories of Public Organization, Managing Human Behavior in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, The Pursuit of Significance, and In the Shadow of Organization, in addition to publishing over 100 articles in professional journals.
Dr. Denhardt has served as president of the American Society for Public Administration and was elected a Fellow in the National Academy of Public Administration. He was a winner of the Dwight Waldo Award for Lifetime Achievement in Scholarship in Public Administration and the Charles H. Levine Award for teaching, scholarship, and service to the profession.
Dr. Denhardt served as director of the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University before coming to the University of Southern California and has been a consultant to public and private organizations, including public universities.
Recent publications include:
Nahavandi, A,, Denhardt, R., Denhardt, J., & Aristeguieta, M., Organizational Behavior; Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications; 2015.
Denhardt, R., Denhardt, J., & Aristeguieta, M., Managing Behavior in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, 4th Ed.; Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications; 2015.
Denhardt, J., & Denhardt, R., The New Public Service, 4th Ed.; New York: Routledge; 2015.
Denhardt, J., & Denhardt, R., The New Public Service Revisited; Public Administration Review, 75(5) :664–672; 2015.
Carol Geffner, PhD
Carol J. Geffner, PhD, is Professor of the Practice of Governance, Management and Policy at the Sol Price School of Public Policy and Director of the Executive Master of Leadership Program. Dr. Geffner is well known for her thought leadership and advisory work with multi-sectorial organizations on improving human and organizational performance and the capacity for sustainable success.
Dr. Geffner is particularly interested in the intersection between organizational performance, management and the discipline of psychology as a basis for her work. She is a nationally recognized speaker and thought leader on organizational change, CEO and executive team leadership and performance, large-scale transformation and application of learning theory to improving operational implementation.
Dr. Geffner has served as president of Newpoint Healthcare Advisors, a national healthcare consulting firm, for the past nine years. During this time, she has worked with nonprofit and for-profit health systems as well as academic medical centers on a broad range of strategy, growth and performance issues related to the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
In prior executive positions, Dr. Geffner served as Chief Learning Officer and President, Shared Services, for a $1.8 billion integrated newspaper and media-company in which she provided management direction and oversight for purchasing, risk management, marketing and communications and human resources. She was also the executive in charge of Information Technology.
Dr. Geffner has held faculty positions at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatochi Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate School and Chapman University. She has served on the Board of United Way of Orange County and the Ralph Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship at Chapman University.
Dr. Geffner earned a Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University, a Master of Public Administration from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto.
Eleni Mastorakos, MA
Eleni Mastorakos, MA, is the 360 lead administrator, and Program Administrator for the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy, Executive Education. In this role, Eleni facilitates specialized leadership development training programs for various populations of working professionals throughout the greater Los Angeles area.
With an MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from California State University, Los Angeles, and a BA in English from the University of California Riverside, Eleni has held multiple roles within the field of education. She has been an academic program coordinator, an English writing tutor, and an English as a Second Language Instructor.
With a passion for making a difference in a student’s learning experience, Eleni is dedicated to engaging with lifelong learners and facilitating programs that promote career growth and development.
Tommy Royston, MEd
Tommy Royston, MEd, is the Leadership Energizes! co-founder, and Assistant Director for Executive Education at the USC Price School of Public Policy. In this role, Tommy coordinates and manages leadership and management programs offered through the Price School in Sacramento.
Tommy’s professional career began in his native Tennessee, where he worked at both the local and state levels before moving to Washington, DC in 2006 to join the staff of the American Legacy Foundation (Legacy), a national public health foundation. While at Legacy, Tommy worked with national organizations, state health departments, federal agencies, and local communities to expand life-saving tobacco prevention and cessation programs. Most recently, Tommy served as the Director of Operations, Training and Technical Assistance for the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC). While at NACHC, he oversaw operational aspects of providing educational programming for staff and board members at 8,000+ nonprofit health center sites around the country.
Tommy is a member of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) and is active with the ASTD Sacramento Chapter. He earned a Masters in Educational Psychology (MEd) from George Mason University and a BA in Sociology from Randolph-Macon College.