Leadership Development

Learning and development professional Susannah Baldwin has been satisfied with her track record of late. One of her students, a senior director, was recently promoted. Another was moved to lead a different part of the organization. But Baldwin, a leadership development veteran with a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, isn’t an in-house practitioner or a training…

At fast-food company Yum Brands Inc., coaching is incorporated in its midlevel leadership program, Leadership Excel. Rob Lauber, vice president of Yum University, said the focus of the six-month-long program is building a pipeline of inspirational and strategic leadership qualities. Participants receive five one-hour coaching sessions where they converse one-on-one over the phone with a…