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KAMI H.: The Principal Leadership Development Program is a great place to grow personally and professionally before launching your career. Over the course of two to three years, associates experience four to six rotations before placing out of the program. As a Level 1 associate, your main responsibilities include learning about the business, the customers that we serve, all while broadening your network.

As a Level 2 associate, your main responsibilities include co-leading one of our high-level initiatives while tackling a more complex rotation. As a Level 3 associate, you'll lead a Level 1 before placing out of the program. Principal currently has 12 leadership development program associates, and I'm running into one of them right now.

SHIVEN S.: In the Leadership Development Program, rotations are your number one priority, accounting for about 70% of your time. So in the beginning of these rotations, you're going to get started with your team, develop key relationships, and get integrated into the core team processes. In the bulk of your rotation, this is when you're going to be spending time working on your projects. And this can be a wide variety of things depending on what team you're working on. But you want to really make sure you're executing on your core projects and getting those deliverables in.

In the end of your rotation, you're going to want to make sure you can set up a long-term implementation plan to ensure the work can continue even after you're gone. So for the rest of the 30% of the time in the LDP, you're going to be working on a high-level LDP initiative with another associate and then, on top of that, participating in ongoing development, networking, and learning opportunities that will help you grow and be more successful as a leader in the program.

ELLE S.: Being a part of the Principal Development Program does not mean we're handed our dream jobs after three years, but it allows us to develop the skills and networks necessary to find and earn that role. Principal allows us to have hands-on experience, to have mentors across the organization, and to learn from senior- and executive-level leadership. And we come out with a deeper business understanding and more confidence.