Determining Leadership Potential: Powerful Insights to Winning at the Talent Game

We are in the midst of a leadership crisis that is derailing business success, and it’s time to get rigorous about talent. This book will show you how, with an effective and consistent framework, to help galvanize decision-makers around leadership potential.

Time and time again, organizations place too many leaders in roles they are not a good fit for. The financial, strategic, and human costs of poor leadership are staggering and unnecessary. But organizations that effectively identify high-potential talent are likely to financially outperform those that do not do this work by a factor of 4.2 to 1, not to mention all the other positive impacts. Backed by the authors’ research, including a study with 50+ global CEOs, the insights and strategies packed into this book will help you eliminate the shocking variation that exists in how people think about determining leadership potential – and empower decision-makers to be game-changers to optimize their organizations.

For too long, leadership potential has been treated as an imprecise art and inconsistently applied. CEOs, board members, senior managers, and HR professionals will welcome the thought-provoking insights and practical tools this book gives to build a pipeline of strong leaders.

Dr. Kimberly Janson is a 25+-year talent and organizational development executive working in 40+ countries, with 300+ companies. As CEO of Janson Associates and founder of Legacy Farms, she has been named a Top 10 Thought Leader and Top 10 Executive Coach in 2021. Working with C-suite leaders, teams, businesses, and individuals, Kim enables change to achieve stellar business results. Kim also authored Demystifying Talent Management, winner of the Axion Book Award.

Dr. Melody Rawlings is a business professor, doctoral chair, and director of the Center for the Advancement of Virtual Organizations at Northcentral University. She has led remote teams for 10+ years and is a frequent presenter at international conferences. She has developed partnerships between corporations and higher ed, and has managed her own business. Melody has authored peer-reviewed publications on leadership topics and has taught internationally in Europe and Asia.