Gartner: How AI could become an asset in developing tomorrow’s leaders

By Kristin Moyer, Distinguished VP analyst at Gartner

AI is rapidly transforming the landscape of leadership development, and not always in ways organizations anticipate. As executives increasingly rely on AI to expand their own capacity, junior talent is losing access to realtime assignments, shadowing opportunities and handson experiences that once built foundational leadership capability. This emerging “experience starvation” threatens to shrink future leadership pipelines, as traditional task-based development is no longer enough to prepare earlycareer employees for the complexity, ambiguity and judgment required in modern leadership roles.

Yet within this disruption lies a powerful solution. AIdriven mentoring, delivered through GenAI simulators, is creating scalable, immersive environments that mirror realworld challenges. By using AI as a mentor, organizations can reverse the trend of experience starvation and gain competitive advantage through accelerated development, cost efficiency and improved performance. For CIOs and HR leaders, the imperative now is to identify ...