Value-Added Leadership · Paul Donders
Where are you right now — as a leader, as a person?
In five minutes the leadership scan shows you your personal profile: your strengths, your growth areas, and an honest look at your leadership identity. Free, concrete — and in your language.
5 minutes · 25 questions · instant result · no credit card
The scan and your first evaluation are free — no credit card. Only then do you decide whether you want to go further.
Paul, in person
Why Pauls Tools exists — in 48 seconds
Paul works with leaders who barely have time to design their own training programme. That is exactly what he built Pauls Tools for: a scan, your learning question, one small step a day — for a month.
48 seconds · English · subtitles available
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Today, I work with 21 leaders in healthcare, great women and men who give their best to really fulfill their calling in their profession. The question is: where do they find the time to design their own training program to grow the competences they need? Exactly for this, we designed Pauls Tools. You do a scan – five minutes – get a result, put your learning question in, and then the program will make a program for you: a step-by-step program where you get every day a small sequence, one exercise to do, so in one month's time you concretely grow your competence. Have fun.
Artificial intelligence, real voice
Paul — as an AI that truly sounds like him
Not generic AI. Every reflection, impulse and answer is grounded in Paul’s own work — and sounds like him.
AI reflection in seconds
Your personal leadership profile, reflected in Paul’s voice — right after the scan.
30 days, personally guided
A daily impulse tailored to your situation, drawn from Paul’s books.
Chat with Paul
Ask anything. The AI answers from his books, articles and talks.
Paul reads to you
Every text in Paul’s own AI voice — articles, devotionals, chat.
Grounded in 10 books and hundreds of passages from Paul’s work. Nothing is made up.
Experience it nowYour way to your profile: three steps
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Answer 25 honest statements
Five dimensions of your leadership — in five minutes, on your own, with no one judging.
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See your profile as a radar
Instantly. Where do your strengths lie? What could grow? The radar shows both — without deficit language.
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Start your 30-day companion
Daily impulses from Paul's work, tailored to your profile. A daily moment for what truly matters.
From the scan — a taste
„Even in difficult situations I look not for someone to blame, but for solutions."
„I clearly express gratitude and appreciation — for the work and for the person."
Where do you really stand here? I invite you to answer this honestly, just for yourself.
The model
Good leadership needs more than competence. It needs character.
Real leadership needs both: the ability to deliver results — and the character to do it in a way that lasts. The radar shows you where you stand in both.
Competence
Character
What you get
Your personal leadership profile
25 statements. 5 dimensions. A radar that shows where you really stand — not where you should.
30 days of daily impulses
Each morning a thought, a question, a small action — from Paul's work, tailored to your profile.
Paul asks you back
The chat knows your profile. Ask it your leadership question. It answers like Paul — because it thinks from Paul's words.
Pricing
Start free — and only go on if you want to
The scan and your personal reading are Paul's gift to you: no account, no credit card. If you then want to walk the full 30-day path and chat with Paul, it costs less than a book a month.
Scan & reading
€0
Stays free
- 25 statements, five dimensions — your personal radar profile
- A warm reading in Paul's voice, the moment you finish
- No account, no credit card
Everything beyond that, in the subscription
€9.95
per month
€99
per yearSave 17 %
(excl. VAT)
- Ask Paul: the chat answers from his whole body of work — books, articles, talks
- You say where you want to go — your path is built around it, at your pace
- Daily impulses, each day written for you alone — at the hour you choose
- Paul reads to you — every text in his own AI voice
- New cycles and re-scans — your path continues
Prices exclude VAT; the gross amount depends on your country and is shown at checkout. Cancel any time to the end of the term — right from your account.
Your data
What you tell me here stays in Europe
Leadership is personal. What you write in the scan and what you ask me belongs to you — which is why we deliberately built Pauls Tools so that it never leaves Europe.
Processed in Frankfurt
The application and the database run in Frankfurt am Main — not somewhere out in the world.
AI through European endpoints
Our AI providers are French companies, and we use their EU endpoints exclusively. What you write is processed in Europe.
Your content isn't stored
Our AI gateway keeps neither your inputs nor the answers. None of it is used to train AI models.
You stay in control
We ask for your consent before the scan. You can delete your account and all your data yourself, at any time.
About Paul
I've been on this journey for more than 35 years — and being on it with you is a privilege.
I didn't build this tool to sell something. I built it because I believe the questions it asks are the most important a leader can ask.
Since 1987 I have walked alongside leaders — through crises, transitions and seasons of growth. In six countries, in Dutch, German and English.
The community behind it
Paul's Tools did not come out of nowhere
Behind it stands xpand: the international trainer community Paul founded in 1987. Today twelve teams across Europe, Africa and North America work with leaders in business, healthcare, education, the public sector and non-profits.
The knowledge base
What Paul answers from
No generic model: every reading, every impulse and every chat answer is anchored in Paul's own books, articles and talks. You can look up exactly what is behind it.
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20 Books · 1997–2026
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Frequently asked
What people want to know first
- What is Pauls Tools?
- Pauls Tools is an AI-powered leadership coach from Paul Donders (xpand). A short self-assessment (a “scan”) shows where you stand as a leader — then you get a personal 30-day companion with daily impulses and a chat that answers from Paul's own work.
- How does the leadership scan work?
- You rate 25 short statements about your leadership on a scale of 1 to 5. This builds a profile across five dimensions — management, social competence, self- and social responsibility, and your identity at the core. You then receive a warm, personal reflection in Paul's voice.
- How long does the scan take?
- About 5 minutes. You don't need an account to start.
„I invite you to be honest with yourself for five minutes." — Paul Donders
The scan is free. The questions are honest. The result is yours alone.
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