Talent insights & assessment

We help you evaluate, select, and develop leaders based on how they perform in real business situations.

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Assessments built for your business.

Supported by 40+ I-O psychologists and 100+ expert assessors, we help organizations make smarter leadership and talent decisions. Our assessments power leadership development, executive coaching, succession planning, high-potential identification, and transformation efforts that strengthen leadership pipelines and improve business performance.

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Talent frameworks

BTS talent frameworks translate your strategy into a clear set of leadership capabilities and behaviors, that define what "great" looks like. We use these frameworks to design assessments and evaluate leaders in action, so you can see how they perform against what actually matters.

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Talent acquisition

BTS supports talent acquisition by providing role-specific, simulation-based assessments that evaluate how candidates think, decide, and lead in real business scenarios.

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Talent and leadership development

By linking real-world assessment data to immersive development experiences, coaching, and business-driven learning, we help leaders grow in ways that translate directly to performance.

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High potential identification

HiPo identification isn’t one-size-fits-all. BTS works with organizations to define what “potential” actually means based on their strategy, leadership model, and future role requirements.

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Succession planning

Create a leadership bench for strategically important roles

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Talent analytics

BTS talent insights and analytics turn individual assessment results into a connected view of your talent, showing where you have strength, where you have gaps, and who is ready for what’s next. Through calibrated data, visual reporting, and expert interpretation, we help you pinpoint risk, prioritize development, and take action with confidence.

Assessment

How AI-ready is your organization?

The BTS AI Adoption Index is a 15-minute self-diagnostic that measures your organization's AI maturity and identifies the opportunities and barriers shaping AI adoption. Deploy it across your enterprise or start with a specific team. Available in seven languages and designed for desktop, tablet, and mobile.

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Readiness score

One score, benchmarked from growth to thriving.

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Adoption drivers

Belief, social signals, confidence, and support, at every level.

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Aggregate dashboard

Cut by region, function, tenure, and role. Every layer rolls up on its own.

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Organization

Every response rolls up on its own, from a person, to a team, to your whole organization.

Whitepaper

Future-proofing succession: Insights from top talent leaders

Discover the six themes reshaping succession planning, with insights from top talent leaders and BTS research.

Client stories

AstraZeneca’s Liz Moran talks about their need for global succession processes.


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Client Stories

Pfizer’s Connie Bustamonte talks about their need to level up their leadership

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Client Stories

A new strategy needs different talent

A global utility company with diverse, internationally distributed business units in a variety of functional areas, was experiencing a shift in strategy following a major change in leadership. The organization partnered with BTS to identify the right people who had the potential to develop into the next generation of C-suite leaders.

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Client stories

Talent selection in Financial Services

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Latest Content

Blog
September 8, 2026
Succession planning check-in: Is your mid-year talent review actually working?
Is your succession planning actually working? Test your mid-year talent review against three questions: framework, conversations, and progress.
Blog
August 24, 2026
Selling changed. Did your kickoff?
Most sales kickoffs are roadmap readouts. Here is how to design one that changes what sellers do when they walk back into the field.
Blog
August 19, 2026
Everybody's planning an AI reset off-site. Four mistakes will sink most of them.
Planning an AI reset off-site? The agenda decides everything. Four common design mistakes, and how to build two days that change what your company is capable of.
Client Stories
September 23, 2026
Redesigning critical workflows in Health Insurance with Claude
How a large U.S. health insurance organization moved beyond individual productivity to advance 30 high-value workflows with Claude.
Client Stories
September 22, 2026
Insurance brokerage and risk management firm scales AI fluency and strategic reasoning with Claude
How one executive session for 140 leaders became a 54+ session firmwide rollout designed to reach thousands.
Client Stories
July 16, 2026
Wholesale bank strategy re-alignment for growth
See how BTS helped a global wholesale bank align 320+ leaders, break down silos, and execute a differentiated growth strategy across regions.
Whitepapers
September 16, 2026
The EQ blind spot: What senior leaders get wrong about executive presence
BTS research on thousands of leaders reveals that while expertise builds credibility, emotional intelligence drives real executive presence and results.
Whitepapers
September 4, 2026
Applied AI field guide 004: Toughest leadership moments, AI innovation
Applied AI field guide 004 from BTS: 11 crises AI leaders face, from job insecurity to runaway token costs, with the mindset to hold and the moves for each one.
Whitepapers
September 4, 2026
Applied AI field guide 003: Ten leadership sparks to accelerate AI innovation
Applied AI field guide 003 from BTS: ten leadership actions to create the conditions for AI innovation to succeed, from coaching and simulation to budget and security.
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