Conquering Leadership Complexity: How “Vertical Development” Accelerates Your Leaders’ Impact

Discover how vertical development expands leaders’ thinking, adaptability, and self-awareness to help them navigate complexity and increase impact.
60 minutes
North America
Virtual
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In partnership with Brandon Hall Group

Today’s leaders face unprecedented challenges: disruption, complexity, ambiguity and the need for cross-functional collaboration. Many feel stuck and overwhelmed, struggling to develop new capabilities to meet these demands. Enter vertical development – a powerful approach to transform how leaders think and act.

Vertical development focuses on expanding a leader’s cognitive complexity, wisdom, and insight. This approach enables leaders to span boundaries and networks and become more adaptable, self-aware, collaborative, and interconnected.

Recent Harvard University research has validated key stages of vertical development, allowing us to identify and support growth in leadership capacity.

Podcast
Beyond Skills: Enhancing leadership through vertical development

Gain insight into

  • The essence of vertical development and its critical importance
  • Insights into developmental stages
  • How to integrate vertical development into your leadership programs
  • Real-world examples of large-scale implementation
  • Practical advice for individual leaders and talent professionals

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