Audrey Smith

Biography

 Audrey Smith is the senior vice president for DDI’s Talent Diagnostics around the globe, and also serves on DDI’s Operating Committee. Her customer-driven thought leadership, extensive experience, and expertise have shaped DDI’s succession, assessment, and development offerings across the leadership pipeline, from the C-suite to the front line. Most recently, Audrey’s team launched DDI’s pioneering mid-level virtual assessment, Leader3 Ready®. Career Highlights Serving as a key architect for DDI’s approach, process, and tools associated with executive succession and development programs for high potentials up through C-suite leaders. Collaborating with Fortune 1000 organizations around the world in best-practice talent management implementations across an array of business needs, including succession, selection, mergers and acquisitions, strategy execution, employee testing, performance management, and senior team alignment. Leading DDI’s Global Assessment Operations, responsible for ensuring global quality, accuracy and consistency for leadership assessment around the world. Driving strategy and execution for global product development, technology integrity, and alliance management for all succession, leadership, and selection diagnostics. Education and Credentials Ph.D. and M.A. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Colorado State University, where she taught courses in psychometrics and industrial and organizational psychology B.A., Pennsylvania State University Member, Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology and American Psychological Association

Research Interest

 Business Management