What if your podcast interviews, pitch calls, and founder meetings could be analyzed to reveal how you really lead under pressure? In this episode, we dive into an AI-powered platform that reads between the lines of transcripts to uncover leadership readiness, founder resilience, and the hidden patterns that drive startup success.
In this episode, Philip and Logan Yonavjak discuss:
- AI-powered leadership and developmental assessment
- The Readiness Engine platform and transcript analysis
- Founder readiness, investor decision-making, and people analytics
- Patterns, complexity, and stages of leadership development
- Ag tech, soil health, and the future of sustainable investing
Lightbulb Moments:
- Leadership can be evaluated not just through self-reported tests, but by analyzing how people naturally speak, tell stories, and respond under pressure.
- Transcript-based assessment offers a way to reduce bias and move beyond gut feeling alone when investors evaluate early-stage founders.
- A clear developmental roadmap is more valuable than a static assessment result; knowing how to grow is as critical as knowing where you are.
- Resistance to being evaluated often reveals attachment to ego and a lower tolerance for feedback, which can limit growth and adaptability.
- Thoughtful use of AI – with clear guardrails, skills, and prompts – can dramatically enhance strategy, reflection, and decision-making, but it should complement, not replace, human connection.
“Once you see how the system is operating and at what level it’s operating, you can then see how to program it to function at a higher level of operation” – Logan Yonavjak
Logan Yonavjak is Co-Founder & CEO of the Readiness Engine, a leadership intelligence company measuring the hidden drivers of execution risk inside growing organizations. She has helped move hundreds of millions of institutional capital across climate and natural capital strategies and now focuses on building the Readiness Engine™ – a platform that transforms leadership potential from subjective judgment into measurable, predictive insight. Logan speaks and writes at the intersection of capital, leadership, and long-term value creation.
Connect with Logan Yonavjak:
Website: www.readinessengine.io
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loganyonavjak/
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Website: https://www.fornarolaw.com/
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