Founder Readiness: Measuring the Leadership Risk Investors Miss | Logan Yonavjak | 716

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What if the biggest risk in a company is not the strategy, the product, or the market—but the leader's ability to grow fast enough to match the business? In this episode of Leveraging Thought Leadership, Peter Winick sits down with Logan Yonavjak , founder of the Founders Readiness Institute , to explore a bold idea: leadership capacity can be measured, developed, and used to reduce business risk. Logan's work sits at the intersection of people analytics, vertical development, AI, and executive performance. She is building tools that help investors, boards, and leadership teams understand how founders and executives think, behave, and respond under pressure. This is not traditional assessment work. It is not about labels. It is not about personality typing. It is about readiness. Can a leader handle complexity? Can they adapt? Can they scale with the company? Can they make better decisions when the stakes rise? Peter and Logan dig into why founder readiness matters. Many companies do not fail because the idea is weak. They fail because leadership breaks under scale. A founder who can lead seven people may not be ready to lead seven hundred.