Unlock Your Workforce's
Full Potential
Transforming talent takes the right strategy, science, and tools—tools that combine insightful data and analytics with the workflows and processes you manage every day. That’s why Korn Ferry and SAP teamed up to create a smarter, more connected way to manage talent—helping you unlock potential and align people with business goals.
With Korn Ferry’s best-in-class Success Profiles embedded right in SuccessFactors, every talent decision becomes clear. Success Profiles don’t just describe jobs—they bring clarity and precision to recruiting, hiring, performance, development, and beyond. That means you can:
- Identify the right talent for the right roles
- Maximize individual and team performance
- Build skills-based development pathways to fill business needs
- Build future-ready succession plans to move the business forward
Technology Anchored in
Best-in-Class Success Profiles
Anchoring our integration are Korn Ferry’s Success Profiles. Developed from decades of research and a database of over 7 billion benchmarks and insights on assessments, rewards, retention, and engagement, Success Profiles define what “great” looks like in any role.

Benchmark for Success
Define the exact skills, behaviors, and traits that drive optimal performance in each role—across industries, organizational structures, and levels, all the way up to leadership.

Anticipate Needs
Success Profiles go beyond technical skills to anticipate needs, align with business strategy, and identify talent gaps, serving as a blueprint for building and acquiring top talent.

Align Your Talent Strategy
Korn Ferry’s entire Talent Suite is built on the insights Success Profiles uncover. This means we provide a clear path towards performance excellence, and the flexible, extensible digital tools to help you achieve it.


Success Profiles
What makes Success Profiles unique is that they provide a whole-person view of talent across 10,000+ profiles—covering over 30,000 job titles. Each profile defines:
- Accountability: Responsibility levels, complexity, and impact
- Capability: Skills, experience, education, and traits
- Identity: Drivers, personality, and cognitive strengths
Powered by the world’s largest normative talent database, we continuously analyze and benchmark our profiles so that they remain dynamic and aligned to skills demands.
Unlock Business Growth Through People
In today’s fast-moving landscape, HR strategy is business strategy. With the combined power of Korn Ferry and SAP, you don't just manage talent—you maximize its impact.
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For Business Leaders
- Align talent to business strategy through a unified framework for performance and development.
- Accelerate time-to-hire and reduce attrition by improving candidate fit with role-specific profiles and insights.
- Make better-informed, future-ready workforce plans based on a common language of skills, capabilities, and visibility into gaps.
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For HR and Talent Leaders
- Define razor-sharp job profiles in minutes.
- Guide smarter hiring and promotion decisions with embedded performance benchmarks.
- Connect L&D to strategic skill-building across your organization.
- Standardize performance expectations and coaching at scale.
Comprehensive
Talent Suite Solutions
Integration with Korn Ferry’s Talent Suite optimizes every touchpoint in your talent strategy, delivering a consistent, connected experience across recruiting, performance, and development.
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Transcript for Korn Ferry Talent Suite video
[Narrator] Finding and developing top talent is one of your biggest challenges.
At Korn Ferry, we are here to make it easier with our Talent Suite, a set of powerful digital tools that help you solve those challenges and build an empowered, agile workforce.
We approach talent like no one else.
With more than 7 billion data points and over 10,000 benchmarks and decades of research from our award-winning Korn Ferry Institute, we use AI to enhance, not replace our human-centered insights.
While others rely solely on AI or surface-level data, Korn Ferry combines advanced technology with unmatched expertise to address all your talent needs, from hiring and development to promotion and beyond.
At the heart of our Talent Suite are our best-in-class success profiles. These profiles define what great looks like in any role by focusing on both the skill sets, the abilities needed for the job, and mindsets like adaptability, collaboration, and a growth mentality. Every solution in our Talent Suite works within the context of these profiles, ensuring every decision is grounded in data and aligned with your business goals.
Whether you're looking to hire smarter, retain top talent, or develop your next generation of leaders, Korn Ferry's digital solutions are here to help.
Architect helps you design an organizational structure that aligns with your goals. Assess ensures you're hiring and developing the best talent. Learn offers flexible, scalable learning solutions to grow your people at every level. Sell boosts sales team performance with training and tools to win more deals, and Pay insures your compensation is fair, competitive, and keeps top talent motivated.
With Korn Ferry, it's more than just technology. It's about creating talent strategies that work for your people and your business, grounded in the data and insights that truly matter.
So let's talk about how we can help you unlock potential, unleash growth, and empower your organization to be more than.
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Your Talent Strategy. Connected.
Discover how our connected digital solutions help you manage talent strategies at scale—from hiring to development to retention.
