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Worldwide Talent Management: Leveraging Automation to Ensure Impact

Corporate globalization has heightened the stakes and broadened the context for assessment and other talent strategy applications.  Many global organizations shift from often fragmented, isolated, regional talent management approaches to a true global talent strategy and are demanding a high degree of global quality, consistency, and efficiency.

DDI will illustrate both unique and common challenges faced by a cross-section of multi-national organizations as they embarked on global talent management implementations. We will showcase general lessons learned and best practice recommendations, including how technology can maximize professionalism, efficiency and impact.

 

Audrey Smith is the Senior Vice President of DDI's Executive Solutions. Audrey and her team spearhead DDI’s global consulting resources to help organizations identify, develop, and deploy executive-level talent. Executive Solutions supports strategic, organization-wide engagements leveraging many of DDI’s diverse services. Audrey’s expertise in selecting and developing professionals across levels, and ensuring cultural alignment, benefits organizations seeking to revitalize their human capital systems.

A recognized thought leader in executive succession management, Audrey co-authored Grow Your Own Leaders (2000), a comprehensive and flexible guide for developing extraordinary leaders. Her knowledge supports DDI’s Executive Solution services, which include strategic consulting, talent assessment, accelerated development, performance management/accountability systems, culture change consulting, and other executive team interventions which link strategy to execution.  More...

 

Elmar Kronz works as a senior consultant in Development Dimensions International’s (DDI) Executive Solutions Group. He provides consulting support to clients in the planning, design, and implementation of human resource solutions for executives and senior managers.

Mr. Kronz has provided consulting support for various domestic and international clients in banking/finance, civil service, pharmacology, and manufacturing. Over the past six years, he has worked extensively with companies such as Aventis Behring, Boehringer Ingelheim, DaimlerChrysler, General Motors, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Agilent Technologies, Kellogg, Gillette, EMC, United Nations, and UBS.

Mr. Kronz worked with DDI’s German operations for more than four years before he transitioned to DDI’s headquarters in Pittsburgh. He is fluent in German and English, which enables him to provide consulting services, deliver training, and conduct assessments for a number of international organizations and to mid- and senior-level audiences.

Before joining DDI, Mr. Kronz worked with a German consulting company and  gained experience in the search and selection of executive personnel in various fields.