Tools
New Mountain Ventures currently offers two free online tools to support you in pursuing personal fulfillment and academic or professional excellence.
The Life Entrepreneurs Personal Assessment© is designed to provide you with an indication of how well your life currently matches with the framework outlined in Life Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives. Taking this assessment is meant to be a reflective exercise that can help inform your current life path. Are you headed where you want to go? What adjustments might you want to make? To take the Assessment, click here.
The Life Entrepreneurs Exercises, which track the flow of the book, are designed as a personal leadership development activity to help you create an Entrepreneurial Life Plan© so that you can lead a life of purpose, service, and significance. To begin the Exercises, click here.
We also provide an array of tools that inform our work, including personalized activities for individuals and customized tools for organizations.
Activities for Individuals:
- Retreat Workbook© (a step‐by‐step program for mapping out an extraordinary life)
- Personal Assessment© (a reflective exercise designed to help you determine whether you are currently leading an “entrepreneurial life” that fits with your desired direction)
- Mutual Support Group Guide© (designed to help you create and make the best use of a mutual support group)
- 360-Degree Review© (designed to give you helpful feedback on how you are perceived by others)
- Time-Mapping Exercise© (designed to help you manage your time according to your priorities)
- Life Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives, the nationally acclaimed book by Christopher Gergen & Gregg Vanourek
Tools for Organizations:
- Entrepreneurial Leadership Development Workbook© (a set of exercises designed to map out a personal and professional leadership path)
- Individual Leadership Review© (a reflective tool to support personal development and sharpen professional leadership skills)
- Time-Mapping Exercise© (designed to help employees better manage and prioritize their time)
- 360-Degree Review© (designed to give employees helpful feedback on their approach to life and leadership)
- Organizational Culture Inventory© (a self-graded assessment of an organization’s culture)
- Governance Best Practices Guide© (best practices on how to organize and manage a board of directors to strengthen the relationship between the board and the administration and staff)
- Organizational Health Report Survey© (a detailed self-graded assessment of key dimensions of an organization—such as operations, finance, strategy, governance, etc.—designed to identify success factors and problem spots)
The real question is not how to just make a living, but how to make a life. Life Entrepreneurs helps all who are struggling to integrate money and meaning in their careers to do just that.
