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Your organization has access to more leadership data than ever before. The challenge is knowing how to make sense of it, translate it into insights, and act on it.
The Leadership Lab was established to bring greater evidence, analytical rigor, and clarity to your most complex leadership decisions.
By translating proprietary data, behavioral science, and advanced analytics into reliable insights, intellectual property, and evidence-based solutions, we help you make better decisions about leaders, strengthen team effectiveness, and improve organizational performance.
The leadership questions we help you answer
You may be planning succession, assessing executive talent, building a leadership team or preparing your organization for transformation. In each case, some critical questions must be answered.
Our science-backed insights are most valuable when the stakes are high, the evidence is ambiguous or incomplete, and established approaches cannot answer the question at hand.
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Do we have the leaders we need for what comes next?
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What distinguishes the executives or executive teams most likely to succeed?
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How do I future-proof my leaders for the human-AI age?
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What does our leadership data reveal—and what should we do about it?
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How can we use AI and analytics without losing the value of human judgment?
Our capabilities
The Leadership Lab is designed for the challenges that demand more rigorous evidence and deeper analysis. Working alongside our senior RRA consultants or directly with your team, our globally recognized experts bring the research and leadership science needed to sharpen insight and strengthen solutions.
Executive assessment analytics
Add deep analytical rigor and robust evidence to decisions about executive selection, succession, and executive development.
Leadership and team benchmarking
Understand how your leaders, teams or organization compares with relevant populations, contexts and leadership expectations.
Organizational and team analytics
Examine the capabilities, dynamics, and conditions that influence top team effectiveness and organizational performance.
AI-enabled insights
Use AI and advanced data science to deepen insight, identify patterns and support better leadership decisions—without removing human judgment from the process.
Leadership intelligence
Access original research into the issues changing leadership, including AI, transformation, the evolving C-suite, succession and future leadership capabilities.
Custom research / analytics
Work with us on a bespoke leadership or organizational question. We will draw on proprietary data, research methods, and specialist expertise.
Christine E. Boyce is RRA’s Global Director of Leadership Consulting Solutions. She applies more than 20 years of experience advising global organizations on their data, people, and process strategies, as well as opportunities at the intersection of all three.
Nigel Guenole is a psychologist and data scientist specializing in executive assessment and development. He is an elected fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) for contributions to assessment science.
Gabrielle Lieberman leads The Leadership Lab, responsible for its strategy, research agenda, and team. She translates leadership science, proprietary data, and advanced analytics into IP, thought leadership, and advisory capabilities.
The Leadership Lab Research Team
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Ela Buczynska |
Leah Christianson |
Beth Hawley |
Joy Tan |
Corey Tatel |
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Frequently asked questions about leadership analytics
What is The Leadership Lab?
The Leadership Lab is Russell Reynolds Associates’ applied research capability. It combines leadership science, proprietary data, behavioral research, advanced analytics, AI, and the expertise of RRA consultants to help organizations make better-informed decisions about leaders, teams, and organizational performance.
How can leadership analytics improve business decisions?
Leadership analytics can help organizations identify patterns in executive effectiveness, talent pipelines, team dynamics, and organizational performance. By combining data with leadership expertise and business context, the Leadership Lab helps clients move from observation to practical recommendations and action.
How does The Leadership Lab support executive assessment and succession planning?
The Leadership Lab strengthens executive assessment and succession decisions through research-backed models, comparative evidence, leadership benchmarking, and advanced analysis. This can help boards and senior leaders build a clearer view of executive potential, leadership readiness, pipeline strength, and future capability needs.
How does the Leadership Lab use AI?
The Leadership Lab uses AI and advanced analytics to identify patterns, deepen insight, and support more informed leadership decisions. Human judgment remains central: data and technology are interpreted through the experience of leadership advisors, researchers, and specialists who understand the context and consequences of the decision.
Can The Leadership Lab provide custom research and analytics?
Yes. The Leadership Lab can develop bespoke research, analytics, benchmarking, diagnostics, frameworks, and tools around a specific leadership or organizational question. Most clients engage through their RRA team, with The Leadership Lab specialists contributing directly where their expertise can strengthen or accelerate the work.
