Research: Making a Paradigm Shift in Leadership Development

The last two years have been among the most challenging for leaders who have had to navigate through immense upheaval and uncertainty. Leaders are still having to steer their organisations through the biggest pandemic for a century, maintaining motivation and focus in a hybrid work environment while embracing reinvention and restructuring on a mass scale. All this while attending to their own and their employees’ wellbeing.

The purpose of this research is to explore how organisations’ expectations around leadership capabilities are shifting as we emerge from the pandemic, and how these shifts are impacting the practice of leadership development.

This research was authored by CRF‘s Gillian Pillans, and IMD Business School‘s Professor of Leadership and Change Management Winter Nie.

The research is sponsored by IMD Business School and RHR International.