Learning Agility: The Key to Leader Potential

Why do some leaders thrive when confronted with unfamiliar challenges while others repeat the same mistakes? Learning Agility offers a definitive answer: because of the ability to learn quickly from experience and adapt behavior accordingly. Drawing on Warner Burke’s extensive research, the book identifies nine dimensions of learning agility and connects them to personality, leadership development, and measurable individual differences. It introduces the research-based Burke Learning Agility Inventory (LAI) and shows how learning agility can be assessed and developed. Highly practical for HR professionals, coaches, and leadership consultants, the book demonstrates applications across high-potential identification, succession planning, onboarding, performance management, and leadership development.