ATD Leadership Development Day

Building the Leadership Pipeline: A Promote-From-Within Approach

Build or buy talent? The answer to this critical talent strategy question guides and shapes many of the talent practices in an organization. Approaches to attracting the right talent, developing the knowledge and skills for success, and engaging and retaining talent all must align and support that goal. This is especially true when the future leader pipeline starts at the entry-level positions of a company.In this session, we will explore an approach to building leadership talent starting at the entry level of the organization to ensure a strong leadership bench. In this session, you’ll learn how to:

• Determine talent implications of a promote-from-within strategy.

• Define targeted career paths and skills for future leaders.

• Create practical learning and development framework to build the pipeline.

• Leverage data to understand impacts and continuously improve.

Speakers

Sue Kasko, Sr. Director Talent Development, 84 Lumber

Paul Yater, CIO and Head of HR, 84 Lumber

3 Real-World Examples of AI for Leadership

It’s the most exciting time ever in leadership development. In this session, you’ll discover how AI is transforming the field, with three real-world examples across industries. You’ll come away with inspiring, practical examples that give you a taste of the future of leadership.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:

• Explore practical, real-world examples of AI for leadership.

• See how AI is scaling manager development in powerful new ways.

• Experience three short AI demos from the real world of leadership.

Speaker

James Cross, Co-Founder, Tenor

Proving the Value of Leadership Development

As organizations face economic and societal challenges, the need for effective leadership grows. Leaders must navigate uncertainty, digitization, and diverse remote teams. More than $200B is spent globally on leadership development. Success is defined by measurable impact and ROI as part of the five levels of outcomes. Courageous leaders develop results on all five levels. This session explores the evolution of leadership development accountability and shows how to demonstrate its value through real-world examples.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:

• Discuss the value chain for leadership development programs.

• Describe the need to show impact and ROI for major leadership development programs.

• Explain how programs are designed to deliver impact and ROI.

Speaker

Jack J. Phillips, Chairman, ROI Institute

From Identification to Impact: Operationalizing Our High-Potential Employee Strategy

The Talent Management Program at bioMérieux is a strategic initiative designed to identify, develop, and retain high-potential individuals. As a development accelerator, it targets those with both aspiration and capability to take on significantly more challenging roles, ensuring a robust leadership pipeline for the future.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:

• Present high-potential employee detection criteria and the selection process.

• Outline the design of an Emerging Leaders program.

• Share implementation progress and key opportunities.

• Highlight the early impact and future direction of Talent Management.

Speakers

Marcus Cazier, Director of Learning and Development – Americas, bioMérieux

Sean Kowallis, Learning and Development Business Partner, bioMérieux

Five Steps to Upgrading Frontline Leadership Success

Effective organizations have effective leaders. More specifically, organizations that thrive have the most effective frontline leaders. Frontline leaders create tremendous leverage on productivity, efficiency, culture, and nearly any metric that matters to your success. Yet the effort invested in this important group is often too little and comes too late. During this session, you will learn how to keep poor frontline leadership from sabotaging your success.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:

• Identify the five steps to more effective frontline leadership success.

• Identify the biggest gaps in your current approaches to developing frontline leaders.

• Determine next steps for your organizational efforts for frontline leaders.

Speaker

Kevin Eikenberry, Chief Potential Officer, The Kevin Eikenberry Group

Leadership by Design: Integrating Culture Into Your Leadership Development Strategy

As champions of talent and culture, learning and development professionals play a critical role in shaping the future of leadership. This session offers a strategic framework for designing and implementing leadership development programs that are not only scalable and inclusive but deeply aligned with organizational culture. From early-career talent to executive leaders, you’ll learn how to craft programs that build leadership capacity while reinforcing the values, behaviors, and purpose that define your organization. Whether you are building from the ground up or enhancing existing efforts, you will leave with practical tools and insights to elevate your leadership pipeline and drive long-term organizational success.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:

• Design a tiered leadership strategy to support growth across all leadership levels.

• Embed organizational culture and values through intentional program design and delivery.

• Apply leadership competency models to create targeted and relevant learning paths.

• Leverage experiential learning and mentoring to deepen leadership capability and cultural alignment.

• Establish clear metrics to measure the impact of development on performance, engagement, retention, and growth.

Speakers

Patrice Ventura, Vice President, Talent Development & Organizational Effectiveness, Hackensack Meridian Health

Sandra Isaksen, Director of Learning and Development, Hackensack Meridian Health