Using Microexperiences to Develop More Leaders Faster
This white paper summarizes the effectiveness data from using microexperiences to develop more than 50,000 leaders. It was formally published as a chapter in the 2025 book Moving the Needle: What We Know (and Don’t Know) About Developing Leaders.
Executive Summary
- Microexperiences can be 10X more effective and 1/10th the cost of industry standards
- They are a special application of experiential learning that leverage the workplace environment and real work to develop leaders on the job with bite-sized activities
- They should not be confused with microlearning approaches since microexperiences do not use classrooms, e-learning, or most other traditional approaches to develop leaders including offsite retreats
- They've been used with executives as senior as Fortune 50 CEOs and in organizations up to 500,000 employees
- This PDF includes examples of microexperiences along with program design guidelines, common mistakes, and lessons learned for maximizing developmental impact
- Evidence from scaling microexperiences inside large large organizations demonstrates their ability to provide high-impact experiential development to all leaders, not just executives or high potentials
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