High-Potential Identification

Reveal Your Strongest Leaders

Identify and develop your up-and-coming leaders and unlock their greatest potential with a well-defined HiPO program.

Identifying and elevating future-ready leaders requires moving beyond performance-based assumptions. DHR’s High-Potential Identification approach begins with a clearly defined success profile aligned to strategic priorities and future leadership needs.

Uncovering Potential. Accelerating Growth.

Using structured in-depth interviews and validated assessments, we evaluate potential across effectiveness, agility, and inclusive leadership. This process mitigates bias, surfaces hidden talent, and clarifies who to invest in and how.

Assess the Organization

Our process is designed to forecast talent needs, identify key roles and skill requirements, and align future leadership competencies with your organization’s strategy.

Assess Your Leaders

Using selected tools, we identify leadership foundations, emergence, and effectiveness.

Define Priorities

Our process includes identifying developmental needs at the individual, team, and organization levels.

Drive Process

We help identify candidates based on selection criteria, manage transitions into new roles, provide communication, and evaluate process and outcomes.

Our Approach: Identifying & Developing High-Potential Leaders

  • Clarifying the difference between performance and potential to improve decision-making
  • Establishing consistent, objective criteria for identifying high-potential talent
  • Expanding diversity and depth within the future leadership pipeline
  • Providing clear visibility into who is ready for broader, more complex roles

Measure Potential, Not Likeability

Our high-potential identification offering measures the potential to build and lead high-performing teams by assessing ability, social skills, drive, and more.

Level the Playing Field

Built on an analytics-based approach with a focus on inclusivity, effective high-potential programs ensure inclusive leadership goals are considered from the start.

Close Skill Gaps and Create Readiness

Focused on prioritizing behavioral change and developmental action to ensure you build a program that helps up-and-coming leaders develop their greatest potential.

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