The activation kit for Emotional Metabolism Index.
A diagnostic, a curriculum, an eight-week pilot blueprint, and an intervention library, designed to be operator-grade out of the box.
Each layer self-contained. Read top to bottom or jump in.
The Diagnostic
Five dimensions, twenty-five questions, five minutes. A score from 0 to 100, archetype placement (Brittle → Regenerative), and an action plan scoped to your role and industry. Take it as a leadership team and compare divergence. That is the first conversation.
EMI in Practice: Five Interventions
One pathology-specific intervention per dimension. Each is a self-contained artifact a manager can run on a Tuesday morning without a consultant. Identity Portability Worksheet, Sunset Audit Checklist, Vaccination via Sandbox, Integration Rituals Guide, Retirement Co-Design Template.
Training & Enablement
Three audiences, three curricula. ICs get a 20-minute self-paced module. Managers get a half-day workshop with role-plays per pathology. POps and transformation leads get a three-week train-the-trainer certification. Currently delivered as coaching; self-serve modules in development.
8-Week Pilot Blueprint
An 8-week pilot, pre-designed. Named workflow, named cohort, week-by-week timeline, lead and lag indicators, exit criteria, three-failure pre-mortem, comms plan, Phase 2 with named tracks. The full plan ships inside the downloadable activation kit.
Manager-runnable. No consultants required.
Identity Portability Worksheet
One-page artifact filled out with each affected senior IC. Three prompts: the capability that survives this workflow, what is actually being retired (artifact, practice, or relationship), what they want their name attached to next.
Sunset Audit Checklist
Twelve-item checklist surfacing zombie artifacts running in parallel: calendar items, shared docs, Slack channels, dashboards, role names. Each gets yes/no plus a decommissioning owner.
Vaccination via Sandbox
Each runs the full retirement arc: announce, identity portability, sunset audit, ritual, debrief. The point is acquired immunity, not the workflows themselves.
Integration Rituals Guide
Story Exchange · Bridge Appointments · Vocabulary Trade · First Decision Shared. Sequence matters; out of order halves the effect.
Retirement Co-Design Template
Forces seven decisions to be co-owned by the affected team: what is being retired, why now in their voice, who decides specifics, who gets credit, what they own next, the bridge timeline, and 30 / 90 / 180-day success.
ICs, managers, transformation leads. Different curricula, one philosophy.
Survival kit · 20 min self-paced
Built for the engineer, designer, recruiter, or analyst whose work is changing. Survival kit, not theory. Recognize the moment your workflow is being retired; write the bridge sentence; know what to ask for; know when to stay and when to move.
Half-day workshop · 6 managers per cohort
Hands-on for the manager about to ask their team to give up something they built. Role-plays per pathology. Each manager leaves with a draft Identity Portability Worksheet for one of their senior ICs and a 14-day commitment to run it.
3-week certification · cohort of six
Train-the-trainer. Diagnostic mechanics → intervention prescription → pilot design + practicum. Award is on a completed pilot with measurable outcome, not on attendance. Charter cohort opening for one Alphabet sub-function and one external Fortune 500 partner.
One named workflow. One cohort. Eight weeks.
The smallest unit that produces a measurable result. The protocol is the constant; the variable is the org. Full timeline and indicators are in the downloadable kit.
Three engagement options. Match the option to the pressure.
Self-serve, two weeks
Leadership team and one extended cohort take the diagnostic. Authors read the divergence map and produce a written interpretation. No live engagement. The lightest possible first step.
One named pilot, eight weeks
The full 8-week blueprint, run with one Alphabet sub-function. Authors embedded as advisors at weeks 1, 3, 5, 8; the rest is in the function's hands. The standard engagement.
Pilot + certification, fourteen weeks
Pilot in weeks 1-8 plus POps certification cohort running in parallel from week 4. Outcome: one workflow retired plus six certified practitioners by week 14. Limited to one cohort per quarter.
Start a conversation
Take the diagnostic, forward the kit to your transformation lead, and pick one workflow you are about to retire that is not the easy case.
Framework: Fiona Cicconi · Chief People Officer, Alphabet. Instrument & scaffolding: Rahul Jindal, second author. Names and pathologies locked 2026-04-26.