ASSESSMENT & SUCCESSION

Know Where Your People Are See Where They Need to Grow

What business challenge are you looking to solve?

Assessing and Building
a Leadership Pipeline
Starts with Understanding

To achieve organizational growth and maximize leadership potential, you must work to understand your teams and identify the skills required for success—both now, and in the future. Korn Ferry’s talent assessment and succession solutions provide an objective view of the talent landscape, with actionable insights to help you make critical decisions around succession, external hiring, talent fit, and development. 

We help you determine the talent you need, assess the talent you have, and pinpoint the steps required to bridge any skills gaps to ultimately build a robust leadership pipeline. With our exclusive, data-driven Success Profiles, we help you benchmark the characteristics of different leadership roles and empower you to make better-informed decisions about your talent. Armed with deep assessment insights, you’ll be primed to start looking for the right talent—and develop talent strategies that perfectly align with your future business needs.

Our Process: Clearer Insights, Better Outcomes

Our process applies to Leaders, Teams, and Organizations. We start with Define (define what talent you need, what outcomes matter most). Then Assess (assess the talent you have today. Then Embed (cultivate shared beliefs and embed inclusive practices). Then Scale (sustain and scale). And finally Develop (bridge capability gaps through targeted development).

We’re committed to providing assessment and succession services aligned with the unique needs of your business. Our process starts by defining the talent outcomes that matter to you. Assessments provide deep insights that help focus our efforts in the areas that need the most attention—resulting in targeted development that scales with your needs.

Why Korn Ferry?

96%

Our in-depth assessments are proven to be 96% more accurate than the industry average.

47%

Companies that use our leadership assessments for their hiring process reduce CEO turnover by 47% in the first three years.

25%

Consistent use of our assessments can improve overall talent performance by 25%

Our Assessment & Succession Experts

Evelyn Orr

Evelyn Orr

Head of CEO and Executive Assessment, NA

Miriam Nelson, Ph.D.

Miriam Nelson, Ph.D.

Senior Client Partner, Assessment and Succession

Jerry Collier

Jerry Collier

Solution Leader, EMEA Assessment & Succession

Paulo Passaro

Paulo Passaro

Senior Client Partner, Assessment & Succession

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