Free self-assessment
Am I ready
to run?
A free self-assessment for women considering their first campaign.
The decision to run for office is one of the most significant you’ll make. This assessment helps you evaluate your readiness honestly — across six areas that determine whether now is the right time and whether you’re building on a solid foundation.
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Enter your name and email below. You’ll receive the assessment immediately and a follow-up from Joanne within one business day.
What the assessment covers
Six areas.
One honest picture.
The assessment walks you through six areas that determine whether you’re building your candidacy on solid ground. Each section scores 0 to 3. At the end you’ll have a clear, honest picture of where you are — and where to focus next.
Who this is for
You’re in the right place if
any of this sounds familiar.
You’ve been thinking about running for months but haven’t taken a concrete step yet and you’re not sure what the first step actually is.
You’ve served on boards, commissions, or community organizations and you’re wondering whether running for elected office is the logical next step.
Something happened in your community — a decision, a vote, a policy — and you decided you couldn’t just watch anymore. Now you want to know if you’re actually ready.
"It's completely normal to feel uncertain when you first think about running. What's not normal is going through it without a roadmap. The assessment gives you a starting point."
— Joanne Tica, MATD
What happens after you submit
Three things.
All of them useful.
You receive the assessment immediately
The PDF goes straight to your inbox. Work through it honestly — a useful score matters more than a high one.
Joanne follows up within one business day
A personal email from Joanne — not a sequence, not a bot. She’ll ask where you scored lowest and offer to talk through what it means for your specific situation.
You decide what comes next
No pressure. No sales pitch. If the assessment reveals gaps and you want support closing them, Candidate Playbook is there. If you just needed the honest picture, that’s enough too.
About Joanne
Joanne Tica, MATD
Course Creator · Certified Impact LLC
Joanne is a specialist in adult education and training facilitation. She created Candidate Playbook because the training gap for women candidates in small and mid-market communities was real, documented, and fixable.
The assessment was designed using the same adult learning principles behind the full Candidate Playbook curriculum — built to surface honest information, not to make you feel good or bad about where you are.
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The first concrete step
is the hardest one.
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Too many women are trained to support power. Candidate Playbook is built to help you hold it.
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