C-suite personas can strengthen individual learning and growth, influence leaders, foster healthy teams, enable change at the senior leader level, and optimize strategy. Knowing the way leaders think and how they make decisions can augment TD’s approach and enhance the function’s influence in the boardroom. In this issue of TD at Work, Esther Jackson will:

• Introduce leader personas.
• Explain how they differ from learner personas.
• Describe the primary executive decision-making styles.
• Detail the benefits of understanding personas for TD.
• Outline ways to support leader development using C-suite leader personas.
• Fuse artificial intelligence and personas to enhance TD outcomes.

The Tools & Resources in this issue include a Template: C-Suite Persona and Worksheet: Pitch Preparation.