leadership

Business travel is often treated as a logistics problem: flights, hotels, calendars. For leaders, it is better understood as a stress test of the operating model. When an executive is

Leadership development has been named HR’s top priority for a third straight year, according to Gartner, as cited by Training Industry and Blanchard’s 2026 L&D trends. A priority that holds

Most organizations that see burnout in their manager population respond the same way. They buy resilience content, add a wellness stipend, and remind people about the employee assistance program. Then

Global organizations invest roughly $60 billion annually in leadership development. By most industry estimates, only about 10 percent of that investment produces measurable impact on behavior or performance. That gap

First-time managers are among the most discussed and least supported transitions in leadership right now. The public conversation centers on skills and tactics, feedback, one-on-ones, meeting facilitation. The harder shift

Middle manager burnout is not a resilience gap. It is a design failure, and it is now a measurable business risk. The Structural Data Span of control has grown 50

Forecasts suggest AI could eliminate more than half of middle management roles in one in five organizations this year. The headline is designed to alarm. The data underneath it points

Most first-time manager programs are built around tactics: how to run a one-on-one, how to deliver feedback, how to manage a meeting. Those skills matter. They are also not what

For the first time, proving impact has overtaken learner engagement as the top challenge facing leadership development functions. That single shift in priority should change how every organization evaluates the

New data from 2026 confirms what many executive teams already sense. AI adoption is outpacing leadership readiness, and the gap is now measurable across multiple independent sources. The Scale of

Nearly 60 percent of first-time managers never receive any formal training for the role. Organizations hand people the hardest transition of their careers and expect instinct to close the gap.

More than half of US employees are showing at least one sign of quiet cracking, and one in five show it frequently, according to recent workforce data. Performance holds steady

At a roundtable I led last month, a woman who runs a 40-person function said something that stayed with me. She has been mentored for nine years. She has never

Every team has been through it. The ropes course. The escape room. The trust fall. Everyone laughs, someone posts a photo to LinkedIn with three clapping emojis, and by Tuesday

There is heavy pressure on leaders right now to project confidence about AI, to appear ahead of it with a clear plan. But the people they lead are not convinced

Progress on women in leadership has stalled at a specific point in the pipeline. Women hold 31 percent of leadership roles globally despite making up 44 percent of the workforce,

New data shows that for every 100 men promoted into a first management role, only 81 women make the same move. Leadership development is also the number one HR priority

AI investment is outpacing leadership readiness, and the gap has moved from an operational inconvenience to a measurable strategic risk. The organizations treating this as a technology decision are mispricing

New research puts trust in immediate managers at 29 percent, down sharply since 2022. A number that low is not a collection of individual failures. It is a structural signal.

Gartner reports that 60 percent of first-time managers fail within 24 months. AI adoption is widening that gap, not closing it. The organizations that treat AI as a manager skill,