Leadership development is at an inflection point. The capabilities that made leaders successful five years ago are insufficient for today’s challenges—and what leaders need for tomorrow is evolving even faster. This session explores how leading organizations are fundamentally rethinking leadership development to prepare leaders for unprecedented complexity: managing multi-generational teams, leading through constant change, balancing technology adoption with human connection, and creating cultures where diverse talent thrives and innovation flourishes.
The best leadership development programs are being redesigned around emerging realities. Leaders must now guide teams through digital transformations including AI adoption, make decisions with new forms of data and intelligence, build inclusive cultures where psychological safety enables innovation labs to generate breakthrough thinking, support employee wellness while driving performance, foster social and collaborative work in distributed environments, and develop talent across five generations with vastly different perspectives.
They must also drive upskilling initiatives at scale, build talent agility across their organizations, ensure talent readiness for future challenges, and enable talent mobility through effective succession and development. These challenges require new capabilities—and new approaches to developing them. You’ll learn from organizations that have successfully evolved their leadership development strategies, with practical approaches you can adapt to your context.
What You’ll Learn
- New leadership competencies required for leading through digital transformations including AI adoption, managing multi-generational teams, building inclusive cultures with psychological safety, and supporting wellness while driving performance
- How leaders must drive upskilling at scale, build talent agility, ensure talent readiness, enable talent mobility, foster social learning cultures, and run innovation labs that generate value
- Real examples of organizations successfully evolving leadership development with approaches to building technology literacy including AI understanding without requiring technical expertise
Session Objectives
- Assess leadership readiness gaps and design leadership development programs integrating AI, multi-generational leadership, inclusion, wellness, upskilling, talent agility, talent mobility, and innovation
- Build leaders’ capability to drive technological change, foster social and collaborative cultures in distributed environments, and balance data-driven decisions with human judgment
- Develop implementation roadmaps for evolving leadership programs with measurement demonstrating strategic value and preparing leaders for competitive success in a technology-driven world