Experience-Based Leadership Development: Practical Ways to Put Experience at the Center of Development
For many years, the most popular approach to the development of leader capabilities has been formal development programs. In response to the pandemic, organizations revamped program designs to accommodate full or partial virtual delivery. Yet, the same basic approach is prevalent in organizations continuing to invest in the development of leaders.
While programs represent one important element of a holistic leadership development strategy, traditional approaches tend to ignore the reality that a vast majority of a leader’s development comes from experience. All too often we miss the opportunity to use experience to really drive development.
This session will identify ways organizations can be more intentional about developing leaders through experience—including five practices to put experience at the center of development—and engage you in an exploration of how you can apply experience-based leadership development practices in your own organizations or with your clients.
Vicki Staebler Tardino, PhD
Vicki is an organizational psychologist, certified executive coach, experienced executive leader, and designer of Executive Success, a collection of development solutions for executives and high potential leaders. She has deep experience designing and implementing systems and processes to identify and develop leadership talent and to improve the effectiveness of individuals and teams. Her areas of expertise include organizational change, accelerating leader transition, executive and high potential leader development and experience-driven leadership development. Vicki’s approach draws on her leadership experience and training for a practical, systemic and evidence-based process for achieving sustainable results.
Vicki earned a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Saint Louis University, a master’s in Applied Psychology from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, and a graduate certificate in Executive & Professional Coaching from the University of Texas-Dallas. She is a board member and Immediate Past President of ICF-New England.
Leadership Development
Central Massachusetts Chapter has been pre-approved by the ATD Certification Institute to offer programs that can be used towards initial eligibility and recertification of the Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) and Associate Professional in Talent Development (APTD) credentials. This program has been approved for a maximum of 1.5 points.
