The leadership program worked. Why didn’t behavior change?

The leadership program worked. Why didn’t behavior change?

4 questions to ask before investing in more development.

Leadership Development | Learning Delivery
The praise that actually lands

4 lessons for learning leaders from Middle-earth.

Leadership Development | Strategy
The leadership readiness gap: Why succession planning isn’t enough

The challenge isn’t that organizations lack talent. It’s that we’ve become very good at identifying potential and much less intentional about developing readiness.

Strategy | Talent Management
Leaders need scenario planning to survive

Scenario planning should not only help leaders survive shocks. It should help them imagine better futures with enough specificity to understand what might bring them about.

Leadership Development | Strategy
Learning used to cascade—now it must circulate

Long-held structural and procedural assumptions undergird how organizations promote and deepen learning that precedes its flow through organizations. What replaces the cascade isn’t a smarter platform. It’s a deliberate act of leadership; a set of adaptive mindsets that make circulation possible in the first place.

Learning Delivery | Strategy
The missing link between management development and business outcomes

8 conditions that connect manager development to workplace behavior, measurable results and lasting business impact.

Leadership Development | Strategy
‘This is not a pipe’

Artificial intelligence, the crisis of truth and the modern workforce.

Strategy | Technology
Design your learning backward

Tomorrow’s learning leaders must build capability, not just deliver training.

Strategy