Your high-potential leaders are your organization’s future.
High-potential employees know they have options. When they feel seen, challenged, and developed, they stay and they grow into the senior leaders your organization will need. When they don’t, they leave — and they take their potential with them. HighIMPACT HiPo™ is a cohort-based development experience designed to retain, develop, and elevate your rising leaders before that moment arrives.
What is HighIMPACT HiPo?
HighIMPACT HiPo is a cohort program for high-potential employees and rising leaders — individual contributors, supervisors, and managers who have been identified as future leaders of your organization. It is assessment-anchored, coaching-led, and built to deliver visible growth in both leadership capability and organizational readiness.
The program is offered in two tracks depending on the depth and focus your organization needs. Both tracks include 1:1 coaching, cohort learning, manager involvement, and a formal closing event where participants present to senior leaders — creating the executive visibility that high-potential development requires.
Minimum cohort size is 15 participants. Groups of 20 to 25 are preferred.
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Choose Your Track
Applied Track
For organizations that want focused, measurable competency development tied to a real business outcome.
The Applied Track is an eight-month cohort experience built around one targeted leadership competency — chosen for its relevance to each participant’s role and career trajectory. Development happens through a Capstone Project: a real, hands-on business initiative that allows participants to apply their learning directly to work that matters to the organization.
This is not simulated learning. Participants tackle real problems, develop real solutions, and present their results to senior leaders at a formal closing event. The organization benefits twice — once from the leader who grows, and again from the business impact the project delivers.
What’s included:
- Birkman Method Assessment
- Individual goal setting mapped to one leadership competency
- 1:1 coaching sessions throughout the program
- Cohort learning and peer connection
- Capstone Project with manager involvement
- Onsite launch event and onsite closing presentation to executives
- Pre and post measurement
8 months · Minimum 15 participants · Prefer 20 to 25
Leadership Track
For organizations that want broader development across three dimensions of leadership readiness.
The Leadership Track is a ten-month cohort experience built around IMPACT Group’s Career Accelerator Model™ — a framework that develops rising leaders across three critical dimensions: Personal Effectiveness, Business Acumen, and Corporate Visibility.
Where the Applied Track goes deep on one competency, the Leadership Track builds broad organizational readiness. Participants develop a fuller picture of themselves as leaders, expand their understanding of the business, and build the executive relationships and visibility that position them for advancement.
What’s included:
- MBTI Step II Assessment
- Individual goal setting across all three Career Accelerator dimensions
- 1:1 coaching sessions throughout the program
- Cohort learning and peer connection
- Executive Dialogues with senior leaders
- Manager involvement throughout
- Onsite launch event and onsite closing presentation to executives
- Pre and post measurement
10 months · Minimum 15 participants · Prefer 20 to 25
| Applied Track | Leadership Track | |
|---|---|---|
| Duration | 8 months | 10 months |
| Focus | One leadership competency | Three dimensions of leadership readiness |
| Mechanism | Capstone Project | Career Accelerator Model™ |
| Assessment | Birkman | MBTI Step II |
| Best for | Targeted, measurable competency development tied to a business deliverable | Broad organizational readiness and executive visibility |
Not sure which track is right for your organization? Our specialists can help you decide based on your goals, your timeline, and the population you are developing.
Who It’s For
HighIMPACT HiPo is designed for high-potential employees and rising leaders who have been identified for future leadership responsibility — typically individual contributors, supervisors, and managers below the director level.
A strong fit if:
- You have identified high-potential talent you want to retain and accelerate
- You are building a succession pipeline and need to assess readiness
- You want development that creates executive visibility for your rising leaders
- You need a program that combines individual coaching with peer cohort learning
You may want to explore something else if:
- Your leaders are directors or above — see Executive Coaching
- You need scalable development for a larger frontline population — see LeaderQ™ or HighIMPACT Frontline™
- You need a team development experience — see HighIMPACT Teams™
Outcomes
%
of participants strengthened a targeted leadership capability during the program
%
of managers reported visible growth in their leader's effectiveness
%
average satisfaction rating
Why IMPACT Group
IMPACT Group is a coaching company. We deliver 55,000+ coaching sessions annually across leadership development, workforce transition, and employee relocation, supporting your people and your organization through every moment that matters. This is what we call Talent IMPACT: one partner, one integrated approach, across the full talent lifecycle.
When you bring LeaderQ to your organization, your managers work with coaches who have spent their careers developing people. On average, our certified coaches have 15 years of experience in career and leadership coaching. We hire the best, and we retain only those whose performance meets our highest standards. Our coaches achieve an overall 98% satisfaction rating from clients.
In addition, more than 70% of IMPACT Group coaches have PhDs or other advanced degrees; 99% have managed or coached others through a merger or IPO.
55,000+
coaching sessions annually
3rd. Largest
coaching network in North America
140+
coaches across all major cities
15 Years
average coaching tenure with IMPACT Group
Ready to develop your frontline leaders?
Talk to one of our specialists. Tell us about your organization and your goals. We’ll help you figure out if LeaderQ is the right fit.
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