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AI-Assisted Leadership Development Feedback for Public Servants

Education & Learning

What it collects that can identify you

Sensitive personal information
Identifiable data
  • Self-assessment data submitted by individual Government of Canada employees. This data is associated with a specific person and relates to their personal leadership behaviours, decision-making patterns, and self-awareness.
Run by
Canada School of Public Service (CSPS)
Where
No fixed location
Kept
Not stated by the Helpful Places.
Shared with
Accountable organization

What it is for

Education & Learning

NILES uses AI pattern analysis to deliver brain-based leadership coaching feedback to Government of Canada employees. The system analyzes self-assessment data to surface insights about decision-making and self-awareness. Users are informed that AI is involved in generating their feedback. The system is developed and operated by the vendor NILES on behalf of the Canada School of Public Service.

What it collects and what happens to it

Data taken in

Sensitive personal information
Identifiable data
  • Self-assessment data submitted by individual Government of Canada employees. This data is associated with a specific person and relates to their personal leadership behaviours, decision-making patterns, and self-awareness.

Processing

Classification & Prediction
  • The system uses AI pattern analysis to identify leadership traits and behavioural patterns from self-assessment inputs, classifying responses against neuroleadership frameworks to generate targeted coaching feedback.

What it does

Deciding (Analytical AI)
Human decides
  • The system performs AI pattern analysis on self-assessment data to produce leadership insights and feedback. A human — the employee receiving coaching — decides how to interpret and act on the resulting feedback.

Outputs

A recommendation or prediction
Identifiable data
  • The system produces personalized leadership development feedback and coaching insights tailored to each employee, based on AI pattern analysis of their self-assessment responses. These are advisory outputs — the employee decides what to do with the feedback.

Run by

Canada School of Public Service (CSPS)
  • The Canada School of Public Service is the federal department accountable for deploying NILES to Government of Canada employees as part of leadership development programming.

Government of Canada AI Register — NILES

Built by

NILES
  • NILES is the external vendor that developed and supplies the AI-powered neuroleadership coaching system used by the Canada School of Public Service.

Government of Canada AI Register — NILES

Kept for

Not stated by the Helpful Places.

Shared with

Available to the accountable organization
  • The Canada School of Public Service, as the deploying department, has access to the data produced by the system. The extent of vendor (NILES) access to individual-level data is not specified in the register.

Stored

Not stated by the Helpful Places.

How to read the colours

Can it identify you?

Anonymized data
Data about people with the link to who is broken. Stripped of identifiers, blurred, aggregated, or noised so this system can’t reasonably tie a record back to an individual.
Pseudonymous data
Each person’s data is tied to a token (hash, ID, template) that lets this system recognise the same person across events, but the token itself doesn’t reveal a name. Reidentification is possible with extra information.
Identifiable data
The data either contains a direct identifier (name, address, account name, recognisable face or voice, plate number) or carries a token this system uses to look up legal identity during processing.

Who completes the loop?

Human decides
This mode suggests; a person decides what to do next. The AI is always advisory — a human is in the loop on every decision. Example: a triage tool ranks cases for a clinician who chooses which to see first.
Human executes
This mode decides; a person carries out the result. Example: an optimizer plans the day’s trash-collection routes, and drivers run them.
Autonomous
This mode decides and acts on its own. No person reviews each decision or carries out the resulting action.

Definitions from the DTPR standard. Amber is about your data, violet about who decides. The fuller the shape and the deeper the colour, the more identifying the data or the less a person is involved.

What you can do

Ask about this system

Questions go to the Helpful Places, not the vendor.

Your rights

  • Right to Be Informed of AI UseGovernment of Canada employees using NILES are informed that AI is involved in generating their leadership development feedback. The AI use disclosure is confirmed as active in the official register.
  • Right to Algorithmic TransparencyAs a Government of Canada system listed on the public AI register, employees have the right to know that AI pattern analysis is used to process self-assessment data and generate feedback. Contact the Canada School of Public Service for more information about how the system works.

Risks and safeguards

  • Psychological harmAI-generated feedback about a person's leadership style, decision-making, and self-awareness could cause distress if received negatively, feel reductive, or be misinterpreted as a performance evaluation.Safeguard: The system discloses AI use to users. Feedback is framed as developmental coaching rather than performance assessment. Employees choose to participate.