Building Leadership Capacity: Overcoming Talent Development Challenges

Date: Thu., June 26, 2025

Time: 12:00 PM ET

Duration: 60 minutes

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A group of leaders discusses how to build leadership capacity within their organizations.

Date: Thu., June 26, 2025

Time: 12:00 PM ET

Duration: 60 minutes

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About This Webinar

“We want to be ready for the future, but don’t know how to prepare for what we can’t predict.”

As outlined in our new Talent Development Challenge Report, this is one of the quotes we hear most often from our clients. If your organization is like most, you’re keeping an eye on the headlines and thinking about the future, but preparing for the unknown feels impossible. You know bigger challenges are coming, and leaders and teams need to work together differently, but future-ready skills are difficult to identify — and harder still to develop.

Senior executives tell us they feel their leadership pipelines aren’t equipped to accomplish today’s priorities — much less tomorrow’s. The shortfall between current capabilities and forecasted leadership needs is called the leadership gap, and in today’s climate of instability and multiple interconnected crises, addressing it is more critical than ever. Steering the business through uncertainty requires not just leadership skills, but also building greater leadership capacity — more sophisticated ways of thinking, increased perspective-taking, and leadership wisdom.

While you can’t prepare everyone for every scenario, you can help your leaders learn to think in bigger new ways. You need a protective scaffolding of development to elevate leaders across the board and secure your organization’s future. Join us to learn how building competencies and capacity in a pipeline of adaptable leaders at every level is more straightforward than you might think — and more important now than ever.

What You’ll Learn

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

  • How to identify gaps in your organization’s leadership pipeline
  • Why vertical development is important for building leadership capacity
  • How a strong pipeline of leaders leads to organizational success

Your Hosts

Allison Barr
Allison Barr, MBA, MAP
Leadership Solutions Partner

Allison is a Leadership Solutions Partner and co-host of our Lead With That podcast, which highlights the leadership lessons in today’s headlines and popular culture. She enjoys supporting clients with their most complex obstacles, including organizational change and psychological safety.

 

Allison is a Leadership Solutions Partner and co-host of our Lead With That podcast, which highlights the leadership lessons in today’s headlines and popular culture. She enjoys supporting clients with their most complex obstacles, including organizational change and psychological safety.

 

Francesca Galarraga
Francesca Galarraga, PhD
Leadership Solutions Partner

With over 25 years of experience as a leadership practitioner, Francesca facilitates our open-enrollment leadership development programs and designs custom leadership solutions. She’s committed to helping clients become better leaders by addressing their most challenging and complex issues while encouraging them to come into their own leadership space and influence their organization as a whole.

With over 25 years of experience as a leadership practitioner, Francesca facilitates our open-enrollment leadership development programs and designs custom leadership solutions. She’s committed to helping clients become better leaders by addressing their most challenging and complex issues while encouraging them to come into their own leadership space and influence their organization as a whole.

Jean Leslie
Jean Leslie, MA
Senior Fellow & Director of Strategic Initiatives

Jean develops, oversees, and helps implement programs, projects, and processes that support the vision and the short- and long-term plans of the global Leadership Research and Analytics group. She’s published more than 100 pieces on leadership, assessment, and feedback — in the form of peer-reviewed articles, popular-press articles, book chapters, and books — and has presented over 70 papers at professional conferences such as the Academy of Management and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychologists.

Jean develops, oversees, and helps implement programs, projects, and processes that support the vision and the short- and long-term plans of the global Leadership Research and Analytics group. She’s published more than 100 pieces on leadership, assessment, and feedback — in the form of peer-reviewed articles, popular-press articles, book chapters, and books — and has presented over 70 papers at professional conferences such as the Academy of Management and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychologists.

Kelly Simmons
Kelly Simmons, MS
Global Director, Custom Leadership Portfolio

Kelly oversees the design and delivery of custom leadership solutions for our global corporate clients, and she was lead faculty on the design of our Advancing Technical Women program, designed to help hone women’s leadership skills so they stay and rise to more senior roles. She’s the co-author of Beating the Odds: Winning Strategies of Women in STEM.

Kelly oversees the design and delivery of custom leadership solutions for our global corporate clients, and she was lead faculty on the design of our Advancing Technical Women program, designed to help hone women’s leadership skills so they stay and rise to more senior roles. She’s the co-author of Beating the Odds: Winning Strategies of Women in STEM.

Allison Barr
Allison Barr, MBA, MAP
Leadership Solutions Partner

Allison is a Leadership Solutions Partner and co-host of our Lead With That podcast, which highlights the leadership lessons in today’s headlines and popular culture. She enjoys supporting clients with their most complex obstacles, including organizational change and psychological safety.

 

Francesca Galarraga
Francesca Galarraga, PhD
Leadership Solutions Partner

With over 25 years of experience as a leadership practitioner, Francesca facilitates our open-enrollment leadership development programs and designs custom leadership solutions. She’s committed to helping clients become better leaders by addressing their most challenging and complex issues while encouraging them to come into their own leadership space and influence their organization as a whole.

Jean Leslie
Jean Leslie, MA
Senior Fellow & Director of Strategic Initiatives

Jean develops, oversees, and helps implement programs, projects, and processes that support the vision and the short- and long-term plans of the global Leadership Research and Analytics group. She’s published more than 100 pieces on leadership, assessment, and feedback — in the form of peer-reviewed articles, popular-press articles, book chapters, and books — and has presented over 70 papers at professional conferences such as the Academy of Management and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychologists.

Kelly Simmons
Kelly Simmons, MS
Global Director, Custom Leadership Portfolio

Kelly oversees the design and delivery of custom leadership solutions for our global corporate clients, and she was lead faculty on the design of our Advancing Technical Women program, designed to help hone women’s leadership skills so they stay and rise to more senior roles. She’s the co-author of Beating the Odds: Winning Strategies of Women in STEM.

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