About This Webinar

What are today’s complex global challenges teaching us about leadership development? How does leadership development need to evolve to meet our changing environment? What skills and practices will transform your workforce into the leaders of tomorrow?

Find out in this webinar, where we unpack what our research reveals about leadership essentials for our crisis-prone world.

Join us as we examine key leadership capabilities for navigating challenges and driving impact. Learn how you can create a comprehensive leadership development system that equips leaders with the skills and mindsets required to adapt in challenging environments and prepare for the future.

What You’ll Learn

In this webinar, you can learn:

Leadership lessons derived from today’s crisis-driven environment and how you can apply these insights to your own leadership development approaches
Essential leadership capabilities that help managers and executives thrive, from complex problem-solving to transformative leadership
Key leadership essentials and development practices for expanding potential and developing capable, resilient leaders

Your Hosts

Jean Leslie, MA

Senior Fellow & Senior Research Scientist

Jean conducts applied research at the intersection of leadership and polycrisis, investigating how leaders can navigate the complex, interconnected challenges facing our world today. 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, MS

Leadership Solutions Partner / Faculty

Kelly designs and delivers leadership solutions for our clients in Europe. She led the design of our women’s leadership development program that helps women in technical fields hone their leadership skills so they stay and rise to more senior roles, and she’s the co-author of Beating the Odds: Winning Strategies of Women in STEM.

Anne Credi

Strategic Business Partner

Anne leads client teams that design and deliver enterprise solutions that go beyond the typical results of traditional leadership development initiatives. With over 20 years of experience in sales, advertising, and marketing, her expertise lies in executive coaching, coaching skills programs, custom leadership development solutions, virtual development, and organizational leadership initiatives for culture change and leadership strategy.

Jean Leslie, MA

Senior Fellow & Senior Research Scientist

Jean conducts applied research at the intersection of leadership and polycrisis, investigating how leaders can navigate the complex, interconnected challenges facing our world today. 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, MS

Leadership Solutions Partner / Faculty

Kelly designs and delivers leadership solutions for our clients in Europe. She led the design of our women’s leadership development program that helps women in technical fields hone their leadership skills so they stay and rise to more senior roles, and she’s the co-author of Beating the Odds: Winning Strategies of Women in STEM.

Anne Credi

Strategic Business Partner

Anne leads client teams that design and deliver enterprise solutions that go beyond the typical results of traditional leadership development initiatives. With over 20 years of experience in sales, advertising, and marketing, her expertise lies in executive coaching, coaching skills programs, custom leadership development solutions, virtual development, and organizational leadership initiatives for culture change and leadership strategy.

Intended Audience

For HR, Talent, and L&D Professionals

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