SPEAKERS
Rich Wellins DDI Senior Vice President for Development
Rich is a Senior Vice President for Development Dimensions International (DDI). His major responsibilities include developing and executing DDI's global marketing strategy, leading DDI's Center for Applied Behavioral Research (CABER), and launching new products and services.
Rich received a Doctorate in Social/Industrial Psychology from American University in Washington, D.C. He has written for more than 20 publications and published six books on leadership and teamwork, including the best seller Empowered Teams, Inside Teams, and Reengineering’s Missing Ingredient. He has made over 100 presentations at numerous professional conferences around the world. Rich is a member of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), and is a member and past board representative of the Instructional Systems Association. He consults with clients worldwide on talent management issues including Nissan, AXA, Infosys, and Lockheed Martin. For the past five years Rich has served as a judge for CNBC’s Asian Business Leaders Awards. Most recently, he was a research principle for DDI’s 2009-2010 Leadership Forecast, looking at leadership trends across 1,200 global organizations.
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 our 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 our behavioral interviewing, testing and assessment systems.
• Major corporations make crucial promotion and placement decisions for more than 3,000 senior executives each year using our 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 our solutions, our levels of expertise, the quality of our people and services.