You can’t develop the leaders you can’t see
Diageo knew they were missing high-potential talent. Simulation helped them find it.
This video is a clip from our 8/5/20205 Training Magazine Webinar: Why Leadership Pipelines Break—and How Top Companies Fix Them
At a global company like Diageo, visibility was a problem.
Promotion decisions had been shaped by visibility — not always by capability.
To solve it, they replaced nominations with behavior.
Using a custom simulation, every manager stepped into real-world leadership scenarios. Diageo’s team tracked performance using their own KPIs — and surfaced talent they’d been missing for years.
When you give people the chance to show what they can do, you find leaders you never knew you had.
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