cultural susu
creative capital & cultural leadership assessment
WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT
The leadership diagnostic for culture-forward organizations and their leaders ready to measure, name, and activate the creative capital of their team.
The assessment measures five dimensions of Integrated Intelligence:
Cultural Identity and Ancestral Awareness as intellectual capital;
Self-Sovereignty and Cultural Authorship readiness;
Social and Power Awareness;
Cultural Operating System fluency; and
Relational and Community Intelligence.
ABOUT THE ASSESSMENT
It does not measure what you lack. It is a witnessing of what you carry.
CULTURAL SUSU is a creative capital and cultural leadership diagnostic
Rooted in the West African Susu tradition of collective trust, pooled wisdom, and rotating contribution — applied not to money, but to knowing.
Drawing on Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein's Banker Ladies research, Zora Neale Hurston's folkloric communication methodologies, and ten years of SisterTalk community circle wisdom, the assessment measures five dimensions of Integrated Intelligence.
Unlike traditional leadership diagnostics that evaluate individual competencies in isolation, the Cultural Susu Assessment is designed to surface the creative capital that already lives in you — the ancestral wisdom, the cultural inheritance, the community wealth — and name it, measure it, and return it to you as the leadership infrastructure it has always been. It is not a test of what you lack. It is a witnessing of what you carry.
For individuals — what you will discover
Your cultural identity as intellectual capital
Where your ancestral inheritance is already shaping your leadership — and how to lead from it with intention rather than by accident.
Where you are building on borrowed soil
The assessment reveals where you have unconsciously adopted frameworks that were never designed for you — and what becomes possible when you return to your own ground.
Your creative capital profile
A full picture of the cultural, relational, ancestral, and community wealth you bring to every room you enter — and how to name it, invest it, and grow it.
A pathway, not just a score
Your results open a tailored pathway into the Cultural Capital Collective™ — the 18-month leadership ecosystem designed to put what you discover into sustained collective practice.
A contribution to something larger
Every assessment completed builds the first empirical evidence base for the Beyond EQ Model™ — a field built from our communities' own data, not borrowed research.
For organizations — the case for licensing
When your people can name their creative capital, they bring more of it to the work. When your culture is built on cultural authorship rather than cultural adaptation, it holds through complexity, transition, and change. The Cultural Susu Assessment™ is available for organizational licensing — giving your team a shared language and a real baseline.
A shared cultural baseline
Assess your entire team across all five Beyond EQ pillars — individual and collective — and understand the creative capital already present in your organization.
Onboarding that actually orients
License the assessment for new employee onboarding — so every person who joins understands the cultural operating system they are entering, and what they bring to it.
Evidence for your equity commitments
Replace performative metrics with real data. The assessment gives you a measurable, culturally grounded picture of where your organization is — and where it is heading.
A gateway to the Collective
Licensing the assessment is the entry point into KDPM's full ecosystem — including the Cultural Capital Collective™, KOFA AI coaching, and the Wisdom Workshop Pathway.
GET THE ASSESSMENT FOR YOUR TEAM
We offer licensing options and branded whitelabeling for your own Cultural Leadership Assessment in your Organization.
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