Utkarsh NarangFounder, IgnitedNeurons · Your best doers become your worst managers as you scale. I turn them into leaders so your best people don’t leave.

Are you Ready? AI in HIGH POTENTIAL Programs Changed Everything

9 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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In this interview excerpt, Utkarsh Narang asks about the rapid evolution of AI over the past year, especially its impact on the people function. The respondent highlights that AI could fundamentally transform HR, using the well‑known high‑potential (HiPo) program as an example. Traditional literature on HiPo programs focuses on identifying and developing future senior leaders, but the speaker suggests that AI offers new ways to select and nurture high‑potential talent, potentially reshaping how organizations build their leadership pipelines.

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How are you seeing this very rapid evolution that we've seen in the last, I think, 12 months from the moment OpenAI came and what's happening right now? So what's your viewpoint of the world and how it's evolving, especially for the people function?
So actually, it has the potential to totally transform how HR is, right? So since you're using HR as a specific thing, let me use one of the concepts of HR, which is quite important and well known, the high potential hypo program, right? And you, you can read books and articles about it that have been written in the last 30, 40 years. They talk about figuring out how to select high potential people and then how to develop them into senior leaders over time.