After spending over two decades in the leadership talent space across five industries, Bertrand has developed insights to recognize and hire exceptional talent at all levels.  He has been laser focused on understanding patterns of careers and predicting who will continue to excel and outperform from early jobs through roles in the C-suite.

If you’re wondering what differentiates top performing leaders from others, and how to stack your leadership team with these exceptional people, you’ll likely enjoy this content.  While this won’t be the core focus of the discussion, we’ll also focus on how the growth of AI should inform your selection process to this end.

In this discussion, you’ll learn what drives these people to become exceptional engines of growth and innovation, and how to design your work, culture, and organizations to hire, engage, and retain them.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to identify truly exceptional talent, what differentiates them, and what they tend to value most at work.  We’ll segment this group into early and mid-career and identify what ultimately makes executive leaders successful.
• What you and your organizations need to do to attract and hire some of these exceptional people.  This will include some tactics for detecting signal, and the employee value proposition work you’ll need to do if you want access to this talent.
• How to set up your practices, processes, and employee experience to keep them engaged and growing with the business.
• At each career level, how to discern between A- and A+ talent.  What differentiates the very best and how to capture the most value from having A+ players in leadership.