Experience-Driven Leader Development: Models, Tools, Best Practices, and Advice for On-the-Job Development

Praise for Experience-Driven Leader Development

"In my twenty-six years in human resources, I've learned firsthand that our best leaders develop through on-the-job experience. This book provides a valuable framework for leadership thinking and talent development?immensely helpful for all of us who work with aspiring leaders."

Jeff Brodsky, Chief Human Resources Officer, Morgan Stanley

"How to best leverage on-the-job experiences for leader development is a challenge for organizations, but clearly one that talent management professionals have tackled in intentional and innovative ways. This book performs the real service of broadly sharing best practices?both proven and cutting-edge?so that we all can do a better job of using experience to develop leadership talent."

Martha Soehren, Chief Talent Development Officer, Comcast

"Having experienced the power of on-the-job leadership development in my own career, I'm delighted to see the world's best thinking on experiential learning collected in one place. The well-researched and practical wisdom in this book makes it essential for executives and line managers who want to unleash the full potential of their talent pipelines."

O. P. (Om) Bhatt, Chairman (retired), State Bank of India

"As we develop the next generation of leaders, the 'e' in e-Learning must shift to mean 'experience.' This book is a must-read for learning leaders driven to make development sustainable!"

Elliott Masie, Learning CONSORTIUM, The Masie Center

"This compendium on leadership development through experience is comprehensive, practical, and useful. The anthology embodies the latest thinking and practice in building leaders and will help thoughtful scholars and practitioners make more informed choices about leadership development."

Dave Ulrich, Professor, Ross School of Business and Partner, The RBL Group

"If you believe you become an employer of choice by building leaders of choice, this book serves as a field guide rich with thought leadership and practical solutions to help enable your success!"

Nina M. Ramsey, Chief Human Resources Officer, Kelly Services, Inc.

"A collection of A to Z best practices in leader development: selection to job experiences to courses to learning strategies and how they all must work together. This will be the definitive source for leader development for decades to come."

Michael M. Lombardo, Founder, Lominger Limited, Inc., and author, FYI: For Your Improvement and Lessons of Experience

Cynthia McCauley is a senior fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina. She is co-editor of The Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Leadership Development and has been an active contributor for many years to the field of on-the-job leader development.

Scott DeRue is a management professor and director of the leadership initiative at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Reported by CNN/Money to be one of the top forty business school professors under the age of forty, DeRue conducts research and teaches in the areas of leadership and team development.

Paul Yost is an associate professor of industrial-organizational psychology at Seattle Pacific University and principle and founder of Yost & Associates, Inc. He has worked at Microsoft, Boeing, GEICO, and Battelle Research in a variety of roles, including executive assessment, leadership development, and human resource research.

Sylvester Taylor is a director in the Research, Innovation, and Product Development Group at the Center for Creative Leadership. He has more than twenty years of experience researching, designing, and implementing leadership development initiatives, primarily helping organizations gain value from organizational and multi-rater feedback.