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James Thomas Ph.D., DDI in Greater China, Vice President, Consulting Service; Head of Consulting Service
Dr. Thomas is a senior Talent Management Expert, and has almost 30 years’ experience in the succession management, talent development of assessment, leadership development. Jim’s consulting practice spans an exceptionally wide industry spectrum that includes extensive experience in government, financial services, hospitality, manufacturing, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals. Dr. Thomas has rich experience in establishing and leading a high performance team, and has formed and led DDI consulting teams in the Midwest, Southeast, and Northeastern United States.
Jim also serves as an executive coach, working with individual executives one-on one, to support the execution of individualized development plans. He has published research related to job analysis and psychological assessment and has spoken at numerous national and international human resources conferences internationally and in Greater China.
His education and credentials include: B.A. in Psychology/Business at the Auburn University, Ph.D. and M.A. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at the University of South Florida. He is a member of American Psychological Association, and Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Since 1970, Development Dimensions International (DDI) has been helping hundreds of corporations around the world close the gap—between where their business needs to go and the talent they must have to take them there—in good times and tough times.
DDI’s experience and expertise in talent management is unparalleled:
• Using DDI’s world-class learning systems, organizations are developing more than 250,000 better leaders each year.
• More than 3,200 high-quality hiring decisions are made every hour and 20,000,000+ candidates have been successfully screened using DDI’s behavioral interviewing, testing and assessment systems.
• Major corporations make crucial promotion and placement decisions for more than 3,000 senior executives each year using DDI’s assessment process—in Singapore, Beijing, London, Mumbai, New York and hundreds of other locations around the world.
The numbers are just part of the picture. In an independent survey of senior HR executives, DDI is at the very head of the list of major talent management competitors in terms of breadth of their solutions, their levels of expertise, the quality of their people and services.