Finding and Retaining High Potentials

Bonnie Hagemann is the CEO of EDA, a world-class human capital firm with powerful CultureTech providing SaaS and AI solutions, premium executive development services and leading industry research. EDA helps companies build and maintain compelling cultures so that they can attract and retain top talent, advance their strategy and win in the marketplace. She has deep expertise in leadership from every angle. She has founded and led companies, led and outsourced functions for large corporations and coached and advised over 200 CEOs and Senior leaders on vision, leadership, strategy, and culture. Boards and leaders engage her and her company to create compelling cultures that last, develop top-of-the-house talent, increase employee connectedness and to work through both general and highly contentious leadership issues. She is also a published author and well-known leadership strategist who advises public and large company CEOs and is often called upon as a leadership subject matter expert for the media including MarketWatch, Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, US News and World Report and many more. Core Technology: EDASurveys is a platform designed to make culture visible to the leaders, the board, the investors and potential employees by providing a one-stop-shop for all talent surveys. Core Services: C-Suite & Executive Coaching, Board Evaluation & Advising, Custom Executive Development, High- potential Development & Workshops, Executive Assessment, Succession Planning, Outplacement. Research: Trends in Executive Development research is an industry leading benchmark study completed every 2 to 3 years that allow organizations to understand the current and future leadership trends and to benchmark their executive development efforts against other leading organizations. Thought Leadership: Bonnie is also a well-known thought leader on leadership. She has authored 3 books, many articles, has a TEDx Talk, is a C-Suite LinkedIn Learning Educator and is called on often by the media for leadership understanding and insight. Gender Equality Advocate: She is co-founder and co-chair of the WomenExecs on Boards network made up of over 215+ women from 23 countries who completed the Harvard Women on Boards program. She is also a member of the Exponent Business Council, a world-changing coalition that amplifies global gender equity efforts at the highest levels of power.