Assessing and Building
a Leadership Pipeline
Starts with Understanding
To achieve organizational growth and maximize leadership potential, you must work to understand your teams and identify the skills required for success—both now, and in the future. Korn Ferry’s talent assessment and succession solutions provide an objective view of the talent landscape, with actionable insights to help you make critical decisions around succession, external hiring, talent fit, and development.
We help you determine the talent you need, assess the talent you have, and pinpoint the steps required to bridge any skills gaps to ultimately build a robust leadership pipeline. With our exclusive, data-driven Success Profiles, we help you benchmark the characteristics of different leadership roles and empower you to make better-informed decisions about your talent. Armed with deep assessment insights, you’ll be primed to start looking for the right talent—and develop talent strategies that perfectly align with your future business needs.
OUR APPROACH TO
ASSESSMENT & SUCCESSION
How ready is your internal talent to take the next step? Do you have the right individuals in place to succeed key leaders, should they depart? With over 55 years’ experience in talent management and succession planning, we help ensure you’re prepared for whatever comes next. Our high-impact assessment approach, made scalable through our talent platform Korn Ferry Assess™, helps evaluate your team’s current capabilities, identify and develop future-ready leaders, and provide actionable insights that prepare your organization for future challenges.
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Leadership & Professional Assessment
We thoroughly assess each individual’s performance, potential, readiness, and cultural fit to provide strategic recommendations on where to invest in professional development.
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Succession Planning
We guide you through leadership transitions with confidence, using evidence-based Success Profiles to identify and prepare the next generation of leaders.
Our Process: Clearer Insights, Better Outcomes
We’re committed to providing assessment and succession services aligned with the unique needs of your business. Our process starts by defining the talent outcomes that matter to you. Assessments provide deep insights that help focus our efforts in the areas that need the most attention—resulting in targeted development that scales with your needs.
Assessment & Succession Insights
Read more about our talent assessment and succession solutions and how these can be used to drive organizational success.