This book investigates how organizations and individual leaders can cultivate learning agility to remain effective in rapidly changing business environments. The authors, Kenneth P. De Meuse and Veronica Schmidt Harvey, leverage extensive research and data from Korn Ferry to define the components of learning agility. They present a framework for identifying, developing, and retaining leaders who possess the capacity to learn from experience and apply those lessons to new, unfamiliar situations.

Experts in the field of human resources and organizational psychology recognize this work as a foundational text for understanding modern leadership assessment. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which is tailored toward practitioners and organizational leaders seeking data-driven strategies for talent management.