The Challenge
Every strategic priority—from growth and transformation to innovation and operational excellence—depends on having the right leaders in the right roles. Yet many organizations lack clear visibility into whether their leaders can deliver what the business requires next. Critical hiring, promotion, and succession decisions are often based on past performance, limited data, or subjective judgment rather than evidence of future leadership success.
The consequences can be significant. Leadership missteps slow execution, delay transformation, weaken team performance, and create costly turnover in key roles. Organizations may unknowingly promote leaders who are not ready, overlook high-potential talent, or leave critical leadership gaps unaddressed. As business complexity increases, the ability to accurately identify leadership capability, readiness, and potential becomes a true competitive advantage.
How MDA Helps
MDA helps organizations make leadership decisions with greater confidence, precision, and business impact. Through our Executive Assessment solutions, we provide objective insight into leadership capability, readiness, potential, and risk—helping organizations select, promote, and develop leaders based on the demands of the role and the needs of the business. Our assessments go beyond generic tools to deliver actionable insights aligned with your strategy, culture, and leadership expectations.
Because leadership decisions do not happen in isolation, we help organizations connect assessment insights to broader leadership priorities, including Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, and Succession Management. The result is a stronger leadership pipeline, better talent decisions, and greater confidence that the leaders responsible for executing your strategy are equipped to deliver results.
“I trust MDA implicitly to give me the best information that I need about talent.”
MDA Leadership has been an integral part of our talent journey at Macy’s Inc. It started out as the assessment of talent that we were considering for the company, then we broadened that to talent that was within the company, and then we looked at the talent that make up teams within the company.
It’s about identifying those people that know how to make mistakes, know how to work with others, know how to swing for the fences, and get big wins. You’re not just dealing with a person for their individual strengths, but also for their ability to influence a full team and for their opportunity to grow within the company. In all of these ways, MDA has been right there at our side helping us diagnose those talent opportunities.
—Jeff Gennette, Former Chairman and CEO, Macy’s, Inc.
