Fast Track Mid-Level Leaders for Expanded, Enterprise-Level Roles
Your most promising leaders need to be equipped with the tools and insights to navigate complexity, inspire teams, and drive results across your organization.
This SHRM Linkage Solution is tailored for directors and senior directors—those currently focused on a region or function who are ready to move into enterprise-level responsibilities.
What Sets Accelerate Apart
Identifying your highest-potential leaders through succession planning is just the beginning. Accelerate helps you take their development to the next level. Our 12-month program leverages:
- Leaders teaching leaders: Fortune-ranked CEOs share practical, real-world strategies.
- Mixed cohort design: Participants broaden their perspectives through cross-industry collaboration and enabling external network building.
- Strategic transformation: Helps mid-level leaders transition from tactical problem-solving to enterprise-level architects and translators.
Tackling the Challenges of Developing Enterprise-Ready Leaders
Preparing mid-level leaders for enterprise roles is a Herculean task. HR leaders face the challenge of creating a ready leadership pipeline while balancing budgets and delivering measurable results. Meanwhile, mid-level leaders must navigate the transition to enterprise-level responsibilities and build the skills to succeed in more complex roles.
For HR Leaders:
- Build a Robust Pipeline: Develop succession-planned leaders without straining budgets or resources.
- Retain Your Best Talent: Keep your highest-potential leaders invested and engaged.
- Prove ROI: Deliver measurable results that validate your investment.
- Scale Seamlessly: Integrate ACCELERATE into your broader talent development strategy.
For Mid-Level Leaders:
- Master Complexity: Transition from functional expertise to enterprise-wide leadership.
- Strategic Skills: Build agility, inclusivity, and foresight to lead at the highest levels.
- Expand Perspectives: Gain industry insights and peer collaboration through the mixed cohort design.
- Earn Trust: Build credibility with senior leadership to unlock future opportunities.
Tailored for Your Highest Potential Mid-Level Leaders.
Target Your Top 10%
Designed for mid-level leaders ready to move from functional/regional roles to enterprise-wide impact.
Supports Succession Planning
Complements your leadership pipeline by preparing leaders for senior roles.
Delivers ROI
Maximizes value for your investment while aligning seamlessly with existing initiatives.
Proof on Impact
ACCELERATE is built to deliver measurable results:
95% of participants
reported improved collaboration and leadership agility, driven by the mixed cohort design.
85% of managers
saw a noticeable improvement in their leaders’ performance, thanks to the leaders teaching leaders approach.
Supervisors consistently praise participants’ enhanced strategic thinking and enterprise-level impact.
A Cohort Experience Tailored for Transformation.
Accelerate combines cutting-edge assessments, cohort-based learning, and real-world application to ensure lasting impact:
- Personalized Assessments: Understand strengths and growth areas.
- Skill-Building Workshops: Develop agility, inclusion, and enterprise thinking.
- Peer Collaboration: Gain insights from diverse industries and functions in a mixed cohort.
- Real-World Application: Apply lessons immediately for visible impact.
- Insights from Leaders: Gain actionable insights from Fortune-ranked CEOs.
The ACCELERATE Experience
SHRM Accelerate leaders will engage in sessions anchored around these components and led by respected CEOs and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).
CEO Leadership Series
Practical leadership insights and knowledge shared directly from highly successful, recognized former CEOs and world-class leaeders.
Personal Impact Series
In collaboration with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), sessions are designed to help participants examine how they currently show up as leaders and gain insights/new skills to increase their effectiveness as leaders.
Personal Assessments
Accelerate leaders will participate in an assessment designed to measure leadership versatility, with progression data to support development.
Enterprise Excellence Series
Led by industry experts, these dynamic sessions offer a strategic understanding of various organizational functions in order to gain an enterprise perspective of the business.
Annual Summit
Provides opportunities to connect with fellow Accelerate leaders, apply insights, and practice new leadership skills.
Peer Insight Activities
Accelerate leaders will have the opportunity to connect within and across organizations to build a network of peers, share ideas, offer support, and hold one another accountable in the application of their learnings.
Strategic Investment. Scalable Impact.
Accelerate is designed to integrate seamlessly with your existing budget and leadership pipeline:
- Focus on your highest potential leaders for maximum ROI.
- Scalable options to ensure alignment with your talent strategy.
- Pricing that makes sense for your budget.