LDP Connect

The organization was founded by Dan Beaudry, a former leadership development program recruiter and manager at Monster.com, who remembered wishing he'd had a network of other program managers who understood what he was going through! In 2012, LDP Connect inaugurated the annual LDP Summit® - a best practices conference featuring case studies of innovations, group brainstorming sessions, benchmarking data on program practices, and networking & idea sharing. With the input of the community, LDP Connect later launched the LDP Survey - a biennial assessment of how organizations manage and evaluate their development programs for early career hires. The LDP Survey captures data on retention, compensation, off-boarding, recruitment, evaluation, staff ratios, mentoring, budgeting and many other practices related to running development programs. The most recent survey contains data on 113 programs from 45 organizations. All participants receive a free copy of the results. In 2017, LDP Connect announced the launch of the LDP Award. Development programs are incubators for future leaders; but they also nurture innovative ideas in leadership development. The LDP Award recognizes practitioners in the space who have brought innovation to development programs for early career hires. We are now accepting nominations.