LEADERSHIP = TRUST
Now You Measure It.
Now You Can Build It.
WHAT IS THE WiLD TRUST INDEX?
WiLD's research confirms something we all intuitively know:
High performing individuals, teams, and organizations function at a high level of trust.
WiLD has created and deployed a trust survey that pinpoints where and whom this trust is placed and at what level.
"Trust inspires confidence, builds resilience, and is a motivator for success. The WiLD Trust Index served as a platform to gather information from our team that helped our organization identify areas to leverage strengths. The WiLD team took that information and provided great insight along with a well thought out strategy to overcome obstacles thereby increasing staff confidence, resilience and motivation."
- CEO who recently used the WiLD Trust Index with her team.
Make Trust Your Differentiator
The Wild Trust Index has been successfully applied across a range of leadership and organizational development contexts, especially where trust is the linchpin for transformation.
Here are a few standout use cases:
1. Executive Team Alignment
Organizations have used the Wild Trust Index to surface trust dynamics within senior leadership teams. By identifying trust gaps and strengths, teams have been able to engage in more honest conversations, recalibrate expectations, and accelerate strategic alignment.
2. Leadership Development Programs
The Index is often embedded into leadership cohorts or coaching engagements to help leaders assess how they are perceived in terms of trustworthiness. It becomes a mirror for self-awareness and a roadmap for intentional growth.
3. Culture Transformation Initiatives
Companies undergoing cultural change have used the Index to measure trust levels across departments or functions. This data helps pinpoint where trust is thriving and where it’s eroding—critical for designing interventions that stick.
4. M&A Integration
In mergers or acquisitions, the Index has been used to assess trust between legacy teams. It helps leaders understand emotional undercurrents and build bridges faster during integration phases.
5. Succession Planning
Trust is often the unspoken currency in succession. The Index has helped organizations identify the landscape of trust and provided specific metrics to evaluate an effective leadership transition, giving incoming leaders the data for how and where to leverage or build trust so that they are trusted by their peers and teams through the process and ensuring the transfer of trust between outgoing and incoming leaders.
Interested in the WiLD Trust Index? Here are your next steps:
1 – Set up a meeting with WiLD to discuss your organization’s needs.
2 – Determine the participant list and run the survey (5-10 minutes for each person to complete).
3 – Debrief the results of the survey and identify opportunities.
What is the WiLD methodology?
WiLD starts with your organization’s purpose, your strategy for pursuing it, your operational backbone for achieving it, and the supporting culture you require to enable it.
Then we integrate our data and tools into the fabric of the development journey of your leaders, people, and processes.
What do we do with the survey results?
The insights within a team or an organization’s report will initiate a journey that defines a path to a high-performance and high-trust leadership team and organization. It will inspire a great conversation with the WiLD Team as trusted advisors in architecting trust and providing solutions through the WiLD methodology to deepen trust in our organization at all levels, starting with leaders.
Results will also be included in the yearly benchmark study conducted by WiLD Leaders. As you participate, you will receive a report on the levels of trust in your organization (at personal, team and organizational culture levels) and a benchmark against other organizations at the end of the year.
