Egon Zehnder Model

Egon Zehnder International's scaled leadership competency model is uniquely suited to evaluating top leadership. In extensive analysis and testing, our simple, robust model not only captures 95 percent of client needs with regard to executive roles: we go beyond this to capture behaviors at the highest executive level – typically two to three levels higher than other models. On our 7-level scales, fewer than half the models examined go beyond level 4, and only 10 percent beyond level 5. No other model captures levels 6 and 7 on all our scales – the levels of exceptional, broad-scope, multinational executive leadership performance.

Because every level has specific behaviors of its own, instead of measuring only relative to roles ("meets expectations," "exceeds expectations") it is possible to measure the exact gap in behavior, what the behavior needs to be (or what it exceeds), and to compare any person against any role, on an objective scale.

Egon Zehnder International can predict executive promotability over a five-year span with 85 percent accuracy – a level that no one else can claim. This is partially due to our ability to measure executive capability to an unmatched level of precision.