When a Fortune 500 enterprise with $25 billion in annual revenue and a workforce of 45,000 set out to compete more effectively, its new CEO made one thing clear: attracting, retaining, and developing top leaders would be mission-critical to future growth.
The Challenge: Modernizing Leadership Selection
HR leaders quickly realized that while their Top Talent strategy was sound, their leadership assessment and selection process was falling short. Traditional methods were slow, subjective, and costly, often missing the mark when it came to identifying leaders who would succeed in complex, fast-moving business environments in Director and VP-level roles.
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The enterprise needed a solution that would align hiring processes with business strategy, provide measurable insights, and deliver a better candidate experience—without sacrificing scientific rigor.
The Solution: Predictive Science, Delivered at Scale
After a rigorous evaluation, the company selected Pinsight, a virtual, simulation-based executive assessment platform validated on over 13,000 leaders worldwide.
The choice was driven by three decisive advantages:
- Higher Predictive Validity: Pinsight demonstrated a strong correlation to leadership success (r = .43), surpassing the predictive power of traditional tools.
- Cost Effectiveness: The platform’s virtual-first model reduced assessment costs while delivering results within 24 hours—not weeks.
- Actionable Insights: Pinsight’s group comparison dashboards provided HR and TA leaders with a clear view of candidate quality, hiring trends, and selection challenges across divisions.
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The Results: A 13% Lift in Senior Leadership Hire Quality
Within six months of implementing Pinsight into its selection process, the organization achieved these results:
- Leadership hire quality improved by 13%, based on performance data from talent reviews.
- Recruiters and hiring managers noted higher confidence in data-backed decisions.
- Assessment speed increased dramatically, reducing time-to-hire for key leadership roles.
This wasn’t just a technology upgrade—it was a cultural shift toward evidence-based talent decisions that advanced both performance and retention.
The Takeaway for Enterprise Talent Leaders
For large organizations competing in the same talent landscape, this case showed that data-driven assessment delivers measurable ROI—faster, smarter hiring, higher-quality leaders, and stronger alignment with business goals. Read the full ROI analysis of a smarter, science-backed executive assessment.
