Founder Behavior Diagnostic and 90-Day Plan for a Burnt-Out SaaS CEO
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Founder Behavior Diagnostic and 90-Day Plan for a Burnt-Out SaaS CEO. Expert-level challenge in analysis. Analyzing real datasets and building models that dr...
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
What specific behavioral shifts and structural interventions, supported by the case-file evidence, can sustainably restore the founder's effectiveness over 90 days without forcing a change of chief executive?
This is not a data exercise. It is the work an analyst does when stakeholders need answers from messy data. That distinction matters to every hiring manager who has seen candidates describe statistical methods and none who have extracted insight from messy, real-world data.
When you finish, you will have something most graduates do not: a real-world deliverable, verified by Ewance, that you can show to a hiring manager and say "I did this. Here is the proof."
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Translate qualitative behavioral evidence into defensible, falsifiable findings rather than personality labels.
- Apply entrepreneurship and behavioral research on founder psychology, dark-side traits, and CEO transitions to a concrete case.
- Design feasible, constraint-bound interventions that change behavior without removing the person's agency.
- Write a high-stakes, emotionally sensitive memo that is honest and actionable for a board audience.
- Distinguish what evidence supports from what it does not, and communicate that uncertainty responsibly.
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Aligned coursework coming soon.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Founder Psychology
Apply founder psychology to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Behavioral Diagnostics
Apply behavioral diagnostics to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Executive Coaching
Apply executive coaching to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Qualitative Analysis
Apply qualitative analysis to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Evidence Based Writing
Apply evidence based writing to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
Leadership Advisor / Board Consultant
This challenge mirrors the core work of advising founders and boards: reading mixed evidence about a leader, reaching a defensible judgment under pressure, and recommending change without overstepping. It builds the credibility advisors need when control of a company is at stake.
This challenge sharpens
- founder-psychology
- behavioral-diagnostics
- evidence-based-writing
Executive Coach
Designing a constrained, behaviorally realistic 90-day plan is the essence of coaching engagements. The challenge develops the ability to turn diagnosis into staged, owner-assigned behavior change a client can actually adopt while preserving their agency.
This challenge sharpens
- executive-coaching
- behavioral-diagnostics
- founder-psychology
People & Talent Analyst
Triangulating survey data, interview transcripts, and self-report into honest findings is daily work in people analytics. The challenge strengthens qualitative rigor and the discipline of separating what evidence shows from what it does not.
This challenge sharpens
- qualitative-analysis
- behavioral-diagnostics
- evidence-based-writing