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nextGEN
Identify the leaders who will shape your future. Unlock their potential. Accelerate their path to impact.
Building a Scalable Leadership Engine
Most companies fail at high-potential development because they start too late, overinvest in generic programs, and reinforce existing patterns—rather than equipping leaders to navigate unpredictable challenges.
ghSMART’s nextGEN rethinks leadership development—tailoring it to your organization’s strategy and context, and preparing leaders to succeed in a rapidly evolving environment. Our research-backed insights and data-driven, multi-layered model will help you identify where to invest and how to build leadership capacity that drives future success.
How we partner with you
Unlike most leadership development programs that start with an off-the-shelf curriculum, we start with strategy. Leadership development isn’t exclusively about accelerating individuals—it’s about creating a system that can drive future business success. This process must be rooted in the company’s goals.
Our three-step approach identifies:
The Right What: Identifying the leadership capabilities needed for future business success. We begin by aligning leadership development with business strategy to define the essential skills, mindsets, and behaviors future leaders will need. Rather than relying on generic leadership models, we take a company-specific approach.
The Right Who: Systematically assessing and surfacing high-potential leaders with rigor and analytics. The process begins with a broad pool of leaders under consideration and concludes with a short list of leaders best suited for targeted development plans designed to accelerate their growth and readiness for future leadership roles.
We use a data-driven, multi-layered model to evaluate nextGEN participants:
The Right How: Enabling thoughtful role matching and high-impact development experiences. We will deliver:
- To the ‘full pool’ of leaders under consideration: Detailed feedback on strengths, development opportunities, and quantitative ratings across key measurements, including company-specific leadership behaviors
- To the ‘short list’ of leaders: a detailed personalized development roadmap, including key strengths, development opportunities, leadership unlocks, supporting data from manager interviews, and qualitative ratings across key company-specific behaviors.
- To the organization: An Enterprise Talent Planning Report, which includes participant ratings, and enterprise actions to accelerate development of the most promising leader s (e.g. role matching, stretch assignments/catapult roles, mentor pairing), cohort-wide observations to inform broader L&D efforts, etc.
What you can expect
Leadership development should deliver measurable impact—strengthening both individual leaders and the organization as a whole. Done right, it becomes an ongoing source of insight, helping organizations identify talent risks early and improve decision-making over time.
When leadership capabilities are built in alignment with strategic goals, they become a powerful driver of long-term advantage.
nextGEN delivers measurable impact by tracking:
- Leadership bench strength. Where does the company have winning capabilities? Where are the vulnerabilities?
- Leadership acceleration. Are future leaders adapting and thriving in new roles?