--- title: "Case Study: Thermo Fisher Scientific's Developing Emerging Leaders-Virtual | Entelechy" description: Developing Emerging Leaders-Virtual establishes a common leadership framework for high-potential leaders at Thermo Fisher Scientific. image: https://info.unlockit.com/hubfs/Woman_laptop_aerial_view_MAROON.jpg --- [![primarylogo-black](https://info.unlockit.com/hubfs/primarylogo-black.svg "primarylogo-black")](https://www.entelechyinc.com/) # Thermo Fisher Scientific: Developing Emerging Leaders-Virtual ## Case Study Overview Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science with a commitment to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer through innovative products and technologies. While the world stopped in the spring of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Thermo Fisher Scientific sprang into action, delivering life-saving testing and vaccine technology. With approximately 80,000 employees globally, the organization needed an innovative — and completely virtual — way to continue to develop high-potential leaders during the pandemic. The Global Talent Development team tasked long-time partner Entelechy with creating an entirely virtual version of the organization’s proven leadership development program for high-potential leaders, *Developing Emerging Leaders*, which originally included virtual instructor-led training, instructor-led classroom training, self-paced learning, performance-based application plans, networking opportunities, and the development of personal leader brands — all spread over two to three months, with a three-day in-person workshop serving as the program’s cornerstone learning event. The challenge in 2020 was to take that rich, dynamic, multi-faceted learning experience and reimagine it into a fully virtual training program, while still achieving the program’s overarching — and ambitious — learning objectives that centered around preparing the next generation of the organization's leaders. Leveraging an easily accessible and cost-efficient virtual platform, *Developing Emerging Leaders-Virtual* establishes a common leadership framework and culture for high-potential leaders across the global organization, allowing Thermo Fisher Scientific to continue innovating and delivering life-saving research and technology to the scientific community. The program received two **Gold HCM Excellence Awards from Brandon Hall Group** for Best Advance in Leadership Development and Best Advance in Senior Manager Development. The program also received a **Gold Learning in Practice Award from Chief Learning Officer** for Excellence in Blended Learning. Complete the form to access the full case study. Copyright © Entelechy, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | [Privacy Policy](https://preview.unlockit.com/privacy-policy/) ![](https://px.ads.linkedin.com/collect/?pid=6528564&fmt=gif)