SPEAKERS
David Tessmann-Keys, Senior Vice President of International Operations, DDI
David Tessmann-Keys has an extensive background in organizational development consulting and operational leadership, spanning Australia, Asia, India, Europe, and the United States. Before joining DDI, David built an eclectic professional background spanning both organizational consulting within the private, government, and not-for-profit sectors and clinical psychological practice within the correctional and psychiatric arenas. David is a registered psychologist and is the former Managing Director at DDI in Australia. David’s specific areas of capability include designing and executing comprehensive talent management strategies across a broad range of industries (FMCG, energy, transport, finance and insurance, government), inclusive of enterprise-wide capability profiling, selection, leadership and workforce development, performance management, and succession management strategies for all levels. David has delivered speeches in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Great China, the Philippines, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States on a broad range of talent management topics and on the issue of leadership in the global context.
About DDI
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.