When was the last time you took a moment to pause and consider: What kind of leader am I today — and who do I want to become? How could I deliver with greater impact?
The SHRM Linkage Leadership Institute addresses questions like these with personalized leadership insights. This development experience is built to accelerate your career with the mindsets, skills, and behaviors that define excellent leaders and motivate high-performing teams.
Over three immersive days, you'll gain strategies and perspectives to strengthen how you think, decide, and lead when it matters most.
Every facet of The Institute is grounded in SHRM Linkage's proprietary leadership frameworks, meaning that you leave The Institute with more than one-off talks and catchy tools. You'll gain a research-backed perspective on leadership, with actionable strategies to advance your career and elevate your impact.
You'll arrive with personalized insights from a leadership assessment, defining individualized strengths and growth opportunities to guide your experience throughout The Institute.
Get ahead of The Institute with expert-led webinars and preparation materials designed to help you maximize your experience.
Engage with world-class speakers and apply their insights with structured learning guides.
Connect with peers in intimate learning groups for meaningful discussions and real-world application.
Engage in targeted breakouts that explore specific leadership competencies, labeled and tailored to build on your assessment.
Build lasting connections with like-minded leaders and industry experts.
Extend your learning with continued content access and the Extended Learning Leader for Life Guide to keep the momentum going.
The SHRM Linkage Leadership Institute is the premier leadership development experience equipping high-performing leaders with the capabilities needed to inspire teams, drive accountability, and deliver measurable results.
Participants are guided by insights from a 360° leadership assessment and learning is backed by Linkage's experience developing more than 100,000 leaders. Those insights serve as the foundation for deeper leadership exploration throughout the experience.
Leaders may choose which leadership model and learning track to engage in based on personal and professional goals:
With 360° assessment insights in-hand, leaders step into an immersive learning environment with high-caliber faculty dialogue, immersive leadership application, and rigorous peer exchange where the real pressures of enterprise leadership are explored.
The Institute offers two flexible formats: in-person in Nashville, TN, or 100% virtual. Regardless of how you choose to engage, expect to gain actionable strategies that will advance leadership capability through data-driven development, engaging keynotes, and more. Customize the experience with options designed to fit your needs and goals:
If you have questions or need help deciding which experience is best for you and your team, please contact us at linkage-customerservice@shrm.org.
Yes. We'll match you with other individuals based on your assessment insights, job function, seniority, and other factors to form a learning team. Together you will have small group development experiences with a coach as well as experience keynotes, breakouts, and networking opportunities. By the time you leave, you'll have built strong relationships and have professional contacts that you'll stay in touch with long after The Institute ends.
Unlike a conference, the content of The Institute is designed to build on the assessment, leadership model, and associated leadership competencies throughout the experience. Your participation in in-the-moment sessions is critically important to maximizing development impact.
We highly recommend participating live, even if joining virtually. This is especially true for the virtual breakout sessions. However, you will be given extended access to the recorded content, which includes keynotes, some breakout sessions, and other special sessions, for 90 days after the start of the event.
The SHRM Linkage Leadership Institute 2026 will be hosted and broadcast in Central Time.
For accessibility and accommodation requests, complete this form. Please be as specific as possible. To fulfill your requests, please submit by November 7, 2026.
Contact your hotel directly if you need additional accessibility and accommodations for housing. Please contact SHRM Customer Experience at support.shrm.org or shrm@shrm.org if you have additional questions about accessibility and accommodations.
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