Learning leaders needn’t feel wedded to traditional leadership development solutions to make a lasting impact on high potential talent. For female partners and directors at Deloitte Consulting, LLP, for example, a trip to a battlefield – pastureland, history and a lot of walking included – offered quite an education.
These leaders need to be prepared to take on executive leadership roles in terms of the clients they serve as well as the internal operation of the firm itself, and a different level of “stickiness” was needed, said China Widener, strategy and operations principal for state and local government at Deloitte.
