What is poor leadership costing your team?
Turnover is one of the most expensive, and most avoidable, costs a business carries. Move the sliders to see a plain-English estimate of what avoidable turnover may be costing you each year, and what better leadership could return.
This estimate is built on figures that match the research already cited across this site. SEEK finds poor leadership and culture are the top reason people leave a job, and the ICF reports that most organisations that measure it make back their investment in coaching. We combine those with a widely cited replacement-cost range to give you a realistic, transparent starting point.
It is an estimate, not a quote. Every team is different, so treat the figures below as a guide to the scale of the opportunity, then book a free strategy call to talk through your specifics.
Est. annual cost of poor leadership
$48,600
The slice of avoidable turnover linked to leadership and culture, each year.
Potential annual saving with coaching
$14,580
A realistic improvement from investing in how your people are led.
On these numbers, a team of 8 losing 18% of its people a year carries an estimated $48,600 a year in leadership-driven turnover, and better leadership could plausibly save around $14,580 of it. That is roughly 1 people walking out the door each year for reasons good leadership can influence.
How we estimate this
- Employees lost = team size x turnover % = 1 people a year.
- Replacement cost assumes each departure costs 75% of that person's salary to replace (hiring, onboarding, and lost productivity). That is $97,200 in total.
- Leadership-driven share attributes 50% of that cost to leadership and culture, in line with SEEK's finding that poor leadership is the top reason people leave.
- Potential saving assumes coaching realistically reduces that leadership-driven turnover by 30%, consistent with the ICF research on coaching returns cited elsewhere on this site.
- These are illustrative industry ranges, not a guarantee. Your real numbers depend on your roles, salaries, and situation. Treat every figure here as an estimate.