Developing middle managers into senior leaders is seen as a business imperative by most of the organizations. The nature of work and learning preferences has changed significantly therefore ways of developing and also areas in which development is required needs to be reassessed. The power of technology and social communities is to be leveraged more meaningfully while creating a learning environment. Different forms of development including coaching needs to come up with new and innovative formats to meet the requirements of a new, success hungry, tech savvy and anxious middle management population.