Building Our Bench and Securing Our Future: Ameriprise Financial Inc.’s Journey Into High Potential Development

Embedding the development of high potential leaders into the fabric of a learning and development strategy is an ongoing priority and challenge for many of us. As we consider possible solutions for creating a willing and able bench of successors, we find ourselves tackling several questions:

• How do we define high potential?
• Are the learning needs of high potentials vastly different from other employees?
• Do our solutions provide ample opportunity for both development and visibility?
• Should high potentials learn from each other?
• Who should develop high potentials? L&D professionals? Managers and leaders? External experts?
• How do we know whether the program is successful?

Hear about Ameriprise Financial Inc.’s journey to build a comprehensive high potential framework. This session will cover the multifaceted approach we took to build this framework and some of our key learnings along the way.

• Learn how Ameriprise’s high potential framework fits within the overarching L&D strategy.
• Understand the key ingredients that of these programs that really work.

Review how we’re measuring success.