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Excellence at Work Podcast Episode 324: How Paylocity's Leading Advantage Program Is Redefining Leadership Pipeline Development
04/13/2026
Excellence at Work Podcast Episode 324: How Paylocity's Leading Advantage Program Is Redefining Leadership Pipeline Development
In this episode of the Brandon Hall Group™ Excellence at Work podcast, host Rachel Cooke, COO of Brandon Hall Group, sits down with Angela Ostermann, Senior Manager of Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness at Paylocity, to unpack what it really takes to build a high-performing leadership pipeline before people ever step into the role. Drawing on Paylocity's award-winning Leading Advantage program, which earned a Gold in Leadership and a Silver in Learning and Development from Brandon Hall Group, Angela brings a practitioner's lens to one of the most pressing challenges in organizational development today: turning high-potential individual contributors into confident, capable, and strategically aligned leaders. Angela shares the philosophy behind Leading Advantage, a program purpose-built not for theory, but for real-world application. Designed specifically for Paylocity's operations group, the company's largest and most business-critical division, the program brings together high-performing ICs and prepares them for leadership through structured learning, on-the-job activities, professional coaching, and peer mentorship. The conversation also explores how deep business immersion, cross-functional collaboration, and ongoing iteration have made this program a genuine growth lever and not just a training initiative.
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