Insights
The research behind measurable people development, and editorial from the Viveka network.
From the Founder
Katja Kempe on what actually moves workforce performance, and what quietly wastes the budget.
It has a visibility problem. Real change is happening inside your programmes. Almost none of it is captured anywhere the business can see. Why invisible impact loses budget fights it should win, and the three kinds of evidence that change that.
Read the essay →Invisible impact looks optional. And optional gets cut first.
Development is a relationship before it's a methodology, and relationships run on fit, not reputation.
Katja Kempe · 6 min→It's the one nobody uses. Four questions that find the hidden waste this quarter.
Katja Kempe · 5 min→It has an infrastructure problem. A great coach transforms one leader. Infrastructure turns that into organisational performance.
Katja Kempe · 5 min→The honest answer rather than the soundbite, plus the three questions to ask any AI coaching vendor.
Katja Kempe · 5 min→The Evidence
Coaching and leadership development work, when they are measured.
Average ROI on executive coaching when tied to business outcomes.
Metrix Global / ICF meta-analysisof organizations recoup their coaching investment within the engagement.
ICF Global Coaching StudyAverage cost of replacing a single mid-level manager.
SHRM · 2024The minimum window where leadership development reliably moves business metrics.
Internal benchmarks · n=2,400 leadersFrom the Viveka Network
Thought leadership from the 3,500+ vetted coaches and practitioners inside the Viveka network.
A former $30M manufacturing CEO on levels of work, the discipline of letting go, and why a leader’s real output is the people they develop.
Read →Almost anyone can look like an expert now. What that changes about how organizations choose who to work with.
Read →What generative AI changes about leadership development, and what it cannot replace.
Read →The Performance Lab produces board-ready evidence from your own leaders in six months.