Succession Planning
A Better Way to See, Validate, and Strengthen Leadership Pipelines
Strengthen succession by gaining enterprise-wide visibility into talent, validating readiness through observed performance in scalable simulations, and accelerating development to prepare leaders for next-level roles—where execution risk is highest.
Backed by Evidence
Backed by Evidence
50%
of leadership transitions fail — most often at the Director and VP level, where readiness is least visible.
70%
edge in identifying high-potential talent through simulation-based assessment.
24/7
global scale and consistency — assess leaders anytime, anywhere with consistent standards.
120%
increase in “ready now” leaders after a year-long simulation program.
Make Talent Comparable
Across the Enterprise
Assess leaders globally through consistent, simulation-based evaluations—creating a comparable enterprise-wide view of talent that improves decisions, reduces bias, and strengthens succession.
Reduce Succession Risk
for Leadership Roles
Simulation-based assessments provide objective insight into how leaders perform beyond their current role—reducing risk in critical Director and VP+ level succession decisions.
Enable Consistent, Enterprise-Wide Talent Decisions
Create a single, comparable view of leadership capability across regions and functions—enabling more consistent, data-driven succession decisions across the enterprise.
Accelerate Readiness
Before the Promotion
Give leaders realistic next-role practice before they step into bigger roles, compressing the learning curve and reducing risk during critical leadership transitions.
From Succession Planning to Leadership Readiness
Most succession plans identify potential. Few provide clear evidence of readiness.
Make Leadership Capability Clearly Visible
Use next-level simulations to observe how leaders think, decide, and act under pressure, complexity, and ambiguity—enabling consistent, enterprise-wide comparison of leadership capability.
Validate Readiness With Observable Evidence
Assess how leaders perform in next-level scenarios to identify strengths and readiness gaps—providing defensible, evidence-based insight to support more accurate succession decisions.
Gain Enterprise-Wide Leadership Pipeline Visibility
Aggregate assessment insights into leadership intelligence—revealing pipeline strength, identifying risks and gaps, and enabling consistent talent comparison aligned to business priorities.
Pinsight’s Award Winning Solutions Are Trusted by Talent Management Leaders and Industry Experts
BRANDON HALL GROUPTM
Technology Excellence Award
SELECTSOFT. REVIEWS
Succession Planning Software
“Partnering with Pinsight has been one of the most strategic talent planning decisions I have made. Not only do the tools and resources help elevate our leaders’ skills and abilities the support from the Pinsight team is clearly industry leading. CEO said ‘Pinsight is not a typical vendor relationship or presentation. They exceed expectations.’ Anyone who is looking for assessment support, selection guidance and criteria, or leadership development should absolutely invest with Pinsight.”
Sarah Jackson
Chief People Officer
“Pinsight’s succession planning solution aims at helping organizations discover high-potential employees and equip them with the skills they need to become leaders in the future. Using skill assessments backed by behavioral science, Pinsight provides objective and unconscious bias-free data about top talent. Using this information, you can design a personalized leadership development plan to help them further their skills and grow into competent leaders.”
Phil Strazzulla
Founder
“Pinsight’s leadership simulations, awarded Gold in the Brandon Hall Group™ Excellence in Technology Awards, combine high-tech and high-touch elements with live human assessors. Pinsight predicts key business outcomes, showing that high-scoring leaders are more likely to be top performers, retain staff, be highly engaged, and achieve rapid career growth.”
Roberta Gogos
Vice President,
Principal Analyst
“Pinsight has become essential to our talent management strategy at Middle Ground Capital. The tailored assessments offer deep insights that help us support employee growth and retention, fostering a culture of self-awareness and continuous improvement. By aligning each team member’s development with our values and goals, Pinsight empowers our people and has helped us maintain retention rates far above industry norms. It’s a critical part of our approach to nurturing top talent.”
Kristen Baily
Director of Human Capital
Observe & Validate Readiness
Observe leaders in simulations to assess how they perform beyond their current role—providing clear, evidence-based insight into readiness for next-level leadership.
Accelerate Development
Translate simulation insights into targeted, role-specific development—enabling focused practice and faster progression from identified potential to demonstrated readiness.
Expand Pipeline Visibility
Identify leadership potential earlier using scalable signals of growth—expanding and diversifying the pipeline to ensure the right talent is assessed and developed.
Understand Pipeline Strength
Aggregate insights into leadership intelligence—revealing pipeline strength, identifying gaps, and enabling consistent, enterprise-wide succession decisions.
How Pinsight Strengthens Succession Planning
Pinsight uses realistic, next-level simulations to reveal how leaders perform beyond their current role—showing how they think, decide, and act in the situations that define future success.
Simulation insights triangulate:
- observed behavior in next-level leadership scenarios
- the leader’s personality and natural tendencies
- the capabilities required at the next leadership level
This precision ensures succession decisions are based on evidence—reducing risk and improving leadership readiness.
Success Stories
Success Stories
43%
decreased turnover was achieved in leaders who participated in the Pinsight program compared to the overall population.
Educational Institution
$2.5B in revenue
10k employees
6x
higher employee retention was found among high-scoring leaders on the Pinsight assessment.
Fortune 500 Tech Company
$24B in revenue
45k employees
14%
increase in employee engagement scores was achieved among participants after completing the Pinsight program.
Educational Institution
$2.5B in revenue
10k employees
For the Past 16 Years, We Have Supported Succession Planning at More than 100 Companies
Pinsight’s readiness assessments have enabled Fortune 500 companies in finance, manufacturing, tech, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals to enhance their leadership capabilities, driving leadership performance and accelerating career growth.
See Your Pipeline Across the Enterprise
Pinsight’s group analytics transform individual insights into leadership intelligence—revealing pipeline strength across roles, regions, and functions, identifying risks and gaps, enabling consistent talent comparison, and aligning leadership capacity to business priorities.
Group Analytics
Group Analytics
Group Analytics
