What 100 Companies 
Revealed About the Leadership Patterns Holding Them Back

When you know what to look for, leadership gaps become a lot easier to address.

This guide shares the three priorities appearing most often across 100+ Arden client engagements, the business impact behind them, and a self-diagnostic to see exactly where these patterns may be showing up in your organization.

Invest in the leadership priorities that will move your organization forward

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100+

20 yrs

client engagements analyzed

of building 
leadership 

capability

3

key 
priorities
identified

WHAT'S INSIDE

Our team is dedicated to sharing what we have learned as a leadership development partner and passing those insights along to support your organization’s growth.

See how leadership challenges can affect execution, communication, cross-functional alignment, retention, 
and growth.

Recognize how each pattern may be showing up across your leaders and teams.

Give your leadership conversations more weight with data drawn from real-world patterns.

What’s at stake

What to watch out for

Data to bring to the table

The three challenges we see most often

Benchmark your organization against the leadership patterns showing up most often across teams.

Turn a broad leadership goal into a clearer area of focus for the year ahead.

Arden uses an evidence-based measurable methodology to assess leadership priorities across organizations and industries, so you get backed insights.

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