# Logan Yonavjak on Making Smarter People Decisions, Assessing Leader Readiness With AI, and Why Coachability Beats Pedigree Every Time

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Podcast: [Forward-Looking Leadership](https://stenobird.com/podcast/forward-looking-leadership-6473861)
Published: 2026-05-05T13:05:44+00:00
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## Resource

Logan Yonavjak (founderready.io [https://founderready.io/]), Co-Founder and CEO of Founder Readiness Institute, joins host Dan Freehling (contempusleadership.com [https://www.contempusleadership.com/]) to discuss how AI-powered assessment is giving investors, enterprises, and leaders a new window into leadership capacity. Logan explains the concept of vertical development and why it is the theoretical underpinning of Founder Readiness Institute's work (00:08:35), addresses concerns about AI bias and shares how it can counter traditional human biases, and discusses what she learned from taking her own assessment (00:29:17). Logan makes the case for coachability as the most essential leadership construct (00:27:08) and explains why human leaders in an AI-augmented world will need to hold increasingly more complexity (00:32:42). Recommended Reading: "$100M Leads [https://bookshop.org/p/books/100m-leads-how-to-get-strangers-to-want-to-buy-your-stuff-alex-hormozi/1f16f42d4b73a7d8]" by Alex Hormozi. Show notes at forwardlookingleadership.com [https://forwardlookingleadership.com/].

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