Build your leadership bench with data. Not gut feel and tenure.
Most companies promote their best individual performer into leadership and hope it works out. Marlee identifies who actually has the motivational makeup to lead, before you make the call, and builds their development plan around real data from your own high-performing leaders.
Build your leadership bench with data. Not gut feel and tenure.
Most companies promote their best individual performer into leadership and hope it works out. Marlee identifies who actually has the motivational makeup to lead, before you make the call, and builds their development plan around real data from your own high-performing leaders.
Built on 25+ years of motivation science and 16 billion data points · Trusted by 90% of the Fortune 100
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The Promotion Gamble
Promoting your best performer into leadership is the most common people decision companies get wrong.
Being excellent at the job isn't the same as being motivated to lead people doing the job. Without a clear model of what your best leaders actually have in common, leadership promotions default to tenure and gut feel.
Marlee was part of a pilot Emerging Leaders Program at L'Oréal, bringing 55 leaders together across South Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East, and North Africa to collaborate and innovate, supporting leadership development and cross-cultural collaboration at scale.
L'Oréal, Marlee Case Study
WHERE MARLEE EXCELS
This isn't personality typing. It's a predictive model built from your own top performers.
Evidence-Based Motivation Science
25+ years of research and 16 billion data points behind every leadership recommendation Marlee makes.
Your Own X-Factor Model
Built from your own highest-performing leaders, not a generic leadership competency framework.
Development, Not Just Identification
A personalized growth path for every high-potential leader, not just a label of 'ready now' or 'not yet.'
BUILT AROUND REAL PEOPLE
Leadership potential isn't always where the org chart says it is.
Marlee surfaces the people whose motivational makeup predicts strong leadership, including the ones tenure and hierarchy would have overlooked.
"I found out I already had what it takes. I just hadn't been given the room to show it."
"We stopped promoting our best individual performer by default and started promoting our best future leader."
"Cross-cultural collaboration got easier once we understood each leader's working style."
HOW IT WORKS
Three moves from 'who's next in line' to 'who actually has what it takes.'
STEP 01
Learn what leadership success actually looks like here
Compare your existing high-performing leaders to define what leadership success actually looks like in your company.
PROOF, NOT PROMISES
Leadership development with outcomes attached, not just a certificate.
100%
improvement in business KPIs from a global leadership team
16 months
for a new CEO to take a stalled business to profitability with Marlee as part of the turnaround
10X
increase in employee engagement and company culture following that same leadership turnaround
90-100%
reliability in predicting leadership performance
WHY NOT JUST...
Most leadership programs teach a framework. Few tell you who to invest it in.
ALTERNATIVE | WHAT IT GIVES YOU | WHAT MARLEE GIVES YOU |
|---|---|---|
Traditional leadership programs | A generic curriculum delivered to whoever was nominated. | A model of what your own best leaders actually have in common. |
360 feedback alone | An annual, backward-looking read from peers and reports. | An ongoing, predictive read on leadership potential and development needs. |
Promotion by tenure or gut feel | Whoever's next in line, or whoever asked. | Evidence-based identification of who has the motivational makeup to lead. |
FROM TEAMS USING MARLEE
Real leaders, developed with evidence instead of guesswork.
“No other tool is as powerful or insightful to identify and develop potential.”
Creel Price
Author, Founder, Investible
“Marlee has been great for me to gain confidence and knowledge on approaching my new leadership role.”
Jose
new VP of Operations
“I’ve always found it daunting to be a leader, I have never sought out to be the one in charge. The positions have always found me. I now have new confidence. I especially like the concept of leadership through context. Very empowering.”
Carol
CFO
Your leadership bench, mapped in days.
Research your current leaders, identify high-potential talent, and start development plans, without a lengthy, generic leadership program rollout.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Before you book a demo
No. It tells you who to invest that program in, and personalizes the program once they're in it.
Find out who on your team actually has what it takes to lead.
Book a free 30-minute session. We'll show you how a Leadership X-Factor Model identifies high-potential talent.
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Predict who'll perform before you make the offer.