We are Kiddy & Partners

Experienced business psychologists, we work with senior leaders in large and complex organisations. 

We define what leadership capabilities organisations need, assess leaders against these capabilities, and deliver ambitious acceleration programmes to fast-track leaders’ development.
 

Find out how we assess and accelerate the right leaders for your tomorrow:

Talent pipelines aren’t delivering

Heads of Talent & Learning tell us why….

Senior managers will not take the risk on appointing internal talent

Development plans are left in a drawer or forgotten and are not actioned

‘Ready later’ succession candidates never move to ‘ready now'

Development programmes fail to demand or measure improvement

Talent is assessed infrequently, usually when one-off decisions are needed

They struggle to demonstrate return on investment to their stakeholders

Do you want your business to thrive and not just survive? 
It all comes down to how you assess, accelerate and appoint the right leaders needed for your tomorrow. 
 

But if we strip it all back, what’s wrong?

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Our solution

How we Assess and Accelerate the right leaders for your tomorrow

Phase 1 Activate 

Through innovative techniques we build and sustain your talent’s commitment to their personal journey

Phase 2 Assess

We identify objectively who will develop furthest and fastest and how this can be accelerated

Phase 3 Assign

We work with you to identify the right stretch experiences that will move individuals rapidly along the talent pipeline and become ‘ready now’ successors

Phase 4 Accelerate

We provide the tools and support to enable people to extract the maximum learning from both their day jobs and stretch experiences

Phase 5 Appoint

We enable your talent to onboard new stretching roles confidently, supporting their successful transition

How do we unblock your talent pipelines?

The organisations we’ve helped

We’ve helped unblock the talent pipelines of these leading organisations. For each we’ve tailored our approach to their context and priorities, delivering highly successful programmes both in person and virtually.

FUNCTIONAL TALENT

BAE Systems

Their problem
Did they have the bench strength needed to win business in an increasingly competitive marketplace?

Our solution
We developed and ran development centres simulating the future business and personal capabilities required. Our assessments gave individuals insight into their strengths and development priorities, as well as providing actionable insight for the functional leadership team.

EMERGING TALENT

Aberdeen Standard

Their problem
How would they develop their emerging talent as leaders of change rather than pure technical specialists?

Our solution
We designed a global programme to equip their emerging leaders with the leadership and management skills required to accelerate their contribution to business growth. 

LEADERSHIP POTENTIAL

HSBC

Their problem
Which of their senior leaders really had the potential to succeed as a senior international manager?

Our solution
We carried out comprehensive assessments of leadership capability and potential, using behavioural observation, a deep dive interview and psychometric assessment.

TALENT ACQUISITION

Britvic

Their problem
Needing to bring new senior talent in, who could they safely appoint with the capability to transform the organisation while fitting Britvic’s culture?

Our solution
Our experienced psychologists carried out deep dive interviews to assess whether the individuals had the critical leadership capabilities and personal qualities to be successful in Britvic. 

MID -LEVEL LEADERS

Philip Morris International

Their problem
Faced with the transformation of their entire business, which of their leaders were willing and able to lead that change?

Our solution
We aligned our approach to Philip Morris’s transformational attributes, and ran half-day developmental leadership assessments to activate and accelerate their leader’s development.

SENIOR LEADERS

SAB Miller

Their problem
How would they enable their Country MDs to embrace the shifts in mindset and behaviour required for their new operating model to succeed?

Our solution
Using one of our benchmarked business simulations we enabled their MDs to experience and get feedback on how they would need to operate in an organisation requiring more collaborative, consumer centric behaviours. 

Want to know more?

Below are some of our recent insights which you can read online. If you want to have a chat about what we’ve done with other clients please complete the ‘get in touch’ form below.

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