Fact Sheet

High PotentialAcceleratorTransforming high-potentialtalent into executive-readyleaders.

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Your high-potential leaders are yourorganization’s greatest renewable source ofinnovation, agility, strategic excellence, andinclusive leadership—and they will drive theorganization’s future success.

High-potential development initiativesaddress critical organizational talent needs.Yet, ensuring a ready supply of leadersthrough these initiatives has never been morechallenging; disruptive innovation,competition, talent mobility, and globalizationare just a few of the forces at play. Tosucceed, organizations must create simple,powerful, and engaging developmentexperiences that can meet both theorganization's and the individual's needs formeaningful growth.

Who are high potentials?

High potentials are your executive leaders of the future.They are people who constantly seek out newchallenges and opportunities to learn—and whogravitate toward organizations that can help themdevelop and grow. They are people who thrive amidchange and create a disproportionately large andpositive impact on your business.

How do best-in-class organizations engage, retain, anddevelop their high-potential leaders? They start bydeveloping easily transferable business skills throughapplied and practical learning. Then they build contextby offering systematic development, mentorship, andcoaching.

The key is to engage and empower high potentials toinvest in problem-solving and their role in theorganization's success. Offering developmentalassignments with increasing scope, scale, access, andexposure not only increases engagement,but also creates a sense of purpose and commitment tothe organization and its future.

At a glance:

High Potential Accelerator is a practical leadershipdevelopment program that creates a rigorouslearning experience, designed to prepare high-potential talent to take on more complex roles.

The program is geared towards fast-track, mid-levelmanagers in succession paths for functional orbusiness unit management levels.

The three-day workshop is supported by one-on-onecoaching with Korn Ferry executive coaches, inaddition to peer mentoring, and a post-workshopvirtual learning session to reinforce on-the-jobtransfer.

This program leverages Korn Ferry global faculty,expert instructional design based on research anddata analytics, best-in-class assessments, a whole-person approach to development, and a dedicationto innovation, creativity, and market relevance withinand across business silos.

The High Potential Acceleratorprogram will impact yourorganization by:

Improving the organization’s reputation as adeveloper and retainer of top talent.

Preparing high-potential participants to step intobroader roles.

Enabling participants to activate strategy and drivebusiness results amid shifting markets.

Creating meaningful cross-company connectionsamong your most promising individuals.

Strengthening, engaging, and retaining your mostagile leaders.

Narrowing succession pipeline gaps with a thrivingand diverse talent pool.

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About Korn Ferry

Korn Ferry is a global organizationalconsulting firm. We help clientssynchronize strategy and talent to drivesuperior performance. We work withorganizations to design their structures,roles, and responsibilities. We help themhire the right people to bring theirstrategy to life. And we advise them onhow to reward, develop, and motivatetheir people.

Key elements of the program.

This foundational program offers blended learning that isswift, self-paced, and phased to include pre-workshop,executive coaching, and post-workshopre-entry planning. The time spent in the workshop servesas the "skills laboratory" for applied learning throughoutthe phased program and beyond.

Faculty, instructional designers, and coaches work togetherto create a seamless development experience thataddresses each leader as a "whole-person" — connectingprinciples of personal, interpersonal, organizational, andpurposeful leadership together into one journey.

The learning journey begins with the Insight Phase, whereparticipants receive assessment results and executivecoaching, which create insights about how they can bestleverage the upcoming workshop. The Immersion Phaseconsists of a three-day workshop that provides a coreunderstanding of the business in addition to defining theirleadership journey, which enables them to navigatecomplexity and sustain their leadership impact. Theprogram concludes with the Impact Phase whereparticipants engage with their peers in an applicationwebinar to reinforce the transfer of learning into impact.The length of the overall participant learning journeydepends on the needs of the organization and theirbusiness cycle.

This phase is followed by a session with the key talentleaders where Korn Ferry offers a talent briefing, a groupreport, and coaching observations. This yields a "re-entryplan" for each participant so succession planning can beindividualized.

What do high potentialswant?

Opportunities to learn, butthey appreciate autonomy inthe learning process.90% seek highly visibledevelopment opportunitiesthat give them access to theexecutive leadership suiteand governing bodies.Organizations that will helpthem grow and thrive.Movement through a seriesof demanding jobs every18-24 months.Organizations whoseworkforces represent thevast diversity in society.

What do high potentialsoffer?

Significantly greatercontribution than their peers.Inspirational motivationlevels, plus aspiration and athirst for knowledge.An ability to thrive on changeand challenge.Applied learning from theirdevelopment experiences toimpact the organization.Self-motivation anddedication to their ongoingleadership development.An average time of 18months in a role.