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DANIELE FORNI

I accidentally built a tech company. Here’s what’s inside. 🚀

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Hi everyone,


Last week, I shared the at times terrifying, at times fantastic story of how I left the corporate world to become an executive coach, only to accidentally start a tech and training company along the way.


Remember those little software tools I mentioned creating because I couldn't find anything good enough for my coaching clients? The ones that people started asking if they could use on their own?


Today, I am pulling back the curtain - all for you to try.


Here is the official lineup of the tools, audits, and assessments I have built to help leaders, neurodivergent professionals, and ambitious humans figure out their next steps.

Whether you need to audit your career, fix your productivity, or find your authentic voice, there is probably a tool in here for you.


Take a look:


🧭 Coaching Tools


  • Saboteur Assessment: Understand your own self-imposed speed limits. Identifies the hidden patterns (e.g., Perfectionism, Avoidance) that govern your stress reactions.

  • Values Compass: Goals are nothing without motivations. A precision ranking tool to help you clarify your core motivations and align them to achieve your goals.

  • Values Challenge: Are you confused by what you want? Let your values challenge each other, and see the winner emerge.

  • The Shareholder Test: Who takes decisions in your life? It is time to buy back your internal board of directors.

  • IKIG-AI: Tired of the usual IKIGAI exercise? Leverage the power of AI to find what you love, what the world needs, what you can use to get paid, and what you are good at!


📊 Executive Audits


  • Skills Replacement Audit: Is AI going to replace you? Stress-tests a career's longevity against threats like AI, automation, and replaceability.

  • Executive Presence Audit: Make sure that people pay attention when you enter the room. Measure your "Executive Presence" across Gravitas, Political Capital, and Sponsorship.

  • Executive Energy Audit: Are you burning out? This tool can give you a score. Measure whether you need to change your job or simply go on a vacation.


🗣️ Executive Communication


  • Mastering The Art Of Influence: Do not be the average salesman - influence in your own authentic way. Explore the research and practical exercises to make you a better communicator.

  • Executive Gravitas and Appearance: Leverage the latest research to become the most respected executive. Explore the research and practical exercises to make you an effective influencer in the workplace.


🧠 Neurodiversity Suite

  • Neuro-Inclusive Leadership Assessment: Find your peak - based on scientific research. Evaluate leadership styles through the lens of neurodiversity to highlight your specific "Spiky Profile."

  • Neurodivergent Operating Manual: Stop masking - tell people how you really are. Create your personal "Operating Manual" to help employers and colleagues understand your specific hardware.


🌟 Personal Branding


  • Personal Brand Creator: Because, at the end of the day, we need to have a personal plan. Create your own personal brand employing fun strategies.

  • AI Mega Prompt: For CV, LinkedIn, and Networking Events. Build your own unique story using a sequential AI prompt—learn how to brag about your achievements!

  • LinkedIn Success Scorecard: Is your LinkedIn Profile good? Answer a couple of questions, and get your score!


⚙️ Productivity Tools


  • Prioritisation Tool: Stuck in analysis paralysis? This tool can help you. A simple mathematical equation to make impactful decisions.


🚀 Programmes


  • Human Advantage: Follow this step-by-step programme to become the Unreplaceable Pro in the world of AI. Built on real-life experiences, and tested by real humans.



Looking back at this list, it is weird to think this all started because I was lazy and did not want writing things down on scrap paper during my coaching sessions.


Now, it has grown into a full ecosystem to help you audit your career, fix your productivity, and find your authentic voice.


All of these tools, assessments, and audits are officially housed inside The Vault.

Are you ready to stop guessing and start measuring? You can unlock everything right now with a 7-day free trial. Play around, find your blind spots, and see what a little bit of targeted tech can do for your career.




🌟 Your Horoscope: The Vault Edition


Last week, we talked about launching the messy draft. This week, your cosmic challenge is to look under the hood of your own career. Here is your permission slip to be "foolish" enough to confront the truth:


♈ Aries: You love moving fast and breaking things. Your foolish act of bravery? Slowing down for exactly five minutes. Stop acting on impulse and use the Prioritisation Tool to figure out what actually deserves your fire.


♉ Taurus: You love stability and hate fixing what isn't technically broken. Your challenge? Deliberately poke holes in your comfort zone. Take the Skills Replacement Audit and bravely face how AI might disrupt your cozy setup.


♊ Gemini: You are a notorious multitasker who bounces between a dozen shiny things. Bravery for you means committing. Pick exactly one tool from The Vault, finish the assessment, and—here is the crazy part—actually implement the result.


♋ Cancer: You fiercely protect your energy and tend to retreat when overwhelmed. Be foolish: instead of hiding, measure the drain. Take the Executive Energy Audit and find out if you need a new job or just a really long nap.


♌ Leo: You are naturally magnetic and love holding the room. But how much of that is authentic influence versus pure volume? Be brave enough to test your actual gravity with the Executive Presence Audit. The truth might just make your roar louder.


♍ Virgo: You over-analyze and build complex, manual spreadsheets for everything. Your foolish leap? Let go of the control. Let an algorithm do the heavy lifting for your CV using the AI Mega Prompt. Trust the tech.


♎ Libra: You are the master of compromise, always adjusting to what others want. This week, be foolish enough to make it entirely about you. Run the Values Compass and let your own motivations take the steering wheel for once.


♏ Scorpio: You like to keep your weaknesses locked away where no one can see them. Your foolish act of bravery is to intentionally uncover your own roadblocks. Take the Saboteur Assessment and face the hidden patterns holding you back.


♐ Sagittarius: You love to wing it and rely on your natural luck and charm. The most foolishly brave thing you can do right now? Actually follow a structured, step-by-step system like the Human Advantage programme. Structure won't trap you; it will elevate you.


♑ Capricorn: You grind non-stop and expect everyone to operate exactly like you do. Toss the traditional playbook out the window. Write your Neurodivergent Operating Manual and foolishly admit to your team exactly how your unique hardware actually works.


♒ Aquarius: You are a futuristic visionary, but sometimes your ideas are a little too detached from reality. Pull your head out of the clouds and take the IKIG-AI assessment. See if your brilliant, eccentric ideas can actually pay the bills.


♓ Pisces: You feel your way through your career and rely on intuition. Your brave step is to put a cold, hard number on your dreams. Run the LinkedIn Success Scorecard and let data, not just feelings, guide your personal brand.

 
 
 

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