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The Cream of the Crop: Diversifying Senior Leadership

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ORC’s research has shown that the talent management systems of companies with diverse senior leadership teams have in common a number of features:

  • Identifying a diverse pool of future leaders early in their professional careers
  • Giving high potential employees critical developmental experiences while allowing alternatives to traditional career paths
  • Using formal processes for ensuring the diversity of succession slates
  • Analysing data to reveal pinch points in the system
  • Holding senior leaders accountable for developing a diverse talent pipeline
  • Involving the non-executive Board of Directors in talent management and diversity
  • Educating leaders about barriers to advancement of women and minorities

In this guide, we’ll examine best practices in each of these areas.