Talent Density: The Multiplier for Organizational Excellence
December 3, 2025 1:00 PM ET
Unlock the secret to sustainable organizational success: talent density. In this session, we’ll reveal why the percentage of “A-players” in your workforce is the single most important metric — outperforming engagement scores, turnover rates, and hiring speed. Discover how high talent density leads to exponential gains in performance, innovation, and engagement, while mediocrity quietly erodes your competitive edge.
Key topics that will be covered:
- Why Talent Density Matters: Learn how A-players drive up to 800% greater productivity and why their presence is the foundation of high-performing teams.
- The Compounding Value of Top Talent: See how A-players amplify the impact of those around them, raise standards, accelerate results, and create a culture of excellence.
- The Hidden Cost of Mediocrity: Understand the real price of retaining B- and C-players — including lost innovation, slower execution, and disengaged high performers.
- Engagement Follows Performance: Explore why true engagement stems from working with capable, driven colleagues, not from perks or superficial programs.
- Measuring and Increasing Talent Density: Get actionable strategies to identify, develop, and retain A-players, including:
- Redefining hiring standards.
- Building a high-performance culture.
- Implementing proactive performance management.
- Fostering internal mobility.
- Making talent density a leadership priority.
Key takeaways:
- A framework for assessing talent density.
- Practical steps to increase the percentage of A-players.
- Tools for transforming hiring, retention, and performance management.
- Insights to make talent density a strategic priority.
SHRM Knowledge Advisors will join the live webinar to answer your questions in real time—right in the chat. If we don’t get to your question during the session? No problem, SHRM members can head to SHRM Connect after this webinar to keep the conversation going with advisors for 30 extra minutes. This benefit is only for members who join the live webinar and not included later on demand.
Meet the Presenter
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Jackson O. Lynch
Jackson O. Lynch is the Founder of Talent Sherpa, a leading platform for pragmatic talent strategy. Through his best-selling Substack newsletter, podcast, and executive coaching, he equips senior leaders with the tools to maximize business outcomes through people. Talent Sherpa has grown to more than 6,300 active subscribers and was recently ranked the 6th fastest-growing business publication on Substack. Lynch's human capital insights also reached more than 3.2M annual views on LinkedIn. His podcast, the Talent Sherpa Podcast, delivers candid conversations with executives and thought leaders, while also challenging conventional HR wisdom and equipping CHROs with actionable strategies. In September 2025, Lynch joined Johny C. Talyor Jr. on-stage to kick off the SHRM Executive Network Visionaries Conference. A core part of Lynch's work is coaching new and emerging CHROs. He helps first-time, rising, and even struggling chief people officers thrive by sharpening their executive influence, mastering board and CEO alignment, and delivering required business impact through talent. Lynch recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Sunnova Energy International (NYSE: NOVA), a renewable energy leader navigating strategic restructuring. He strengthened talent density by upgrading leadership teams around top performers, drove clarity of expectations by anchoring leaders on outcomes rather than activities, and accelerated speed to impact by redesigning role architecture, selection standards, and ramp-up processes. Underpinning the transformation was a unified talent philosophy that provided the substructure for rapid transformation.
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