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Forging Tomorrow’s CEOs: Building a Leadership Pipeline

Organization Transformation2024Leadership Transformation
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Acumen helped one of the largest venture builders in the Philippines build a CEO Incubator program.  This started with identifying six critical leadership competencies for start-up CEO’s, assessing high-potential leaders, building their capabilities through bespoke programs and pairing them with coaches or mentors to develop future CEOs and C-Suite leaders for start-up ventures. 

The challenge

The venture builder firm has a proven track record of incubating tech start-ups and transforming them into independent businesses. But as these ventures grew, a new challenge emerged: a shortage of top leaders ready to step into the CEO role. The incubator excelled at launching companies and needed to ensure a strong pool of leaders who can run them.

What we did

Acumen partnered with the client to develop a CEO Incubator program tailored specifically for future CEOs. We:

  1. Identified six critical CEO skills, specific to start-ups
  2. Assessed high-potential leaders through a rigorous process to pinpoint their strengths and areas for growth
  3. Matching each leader with a coach or mentor—both local and international—to accelerate their development and close competency gaps
  4. Ran bespoke programs to upskill capabilities in specific competencies.

The impact

Coaching was widely praised for its practical value and relevance, with post-coaching evaluations showing measurable improvement in key competencies, as rated by both supervisors and the leaders themselves. By investing in a structured competency model and targeted coaching, the company is now equipped to grow its own future CEOs—ensuring that every new venture has the leadership it needs to succeed. 

In their words

The objectives were met as the sessions provided participants support in their development plans. Coaching also provided the professional and personal growth​

​Human Resource Business Partner​

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