About

Background

People Development Partners is a management consulting firm specializing in leadership development, management training, managerial selection, and succession planning activities. Douglas Klippel is an experienced HR consultant who has worked with a variety of Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies on issues such as management development strategies, succession planning initiatives, talent management strategies, and executive development initiatives. He has also provided individual coaching services for senior-level executives.

Credentials

Douglas also served as a member of the teaching faculty at the University of Tennessee, where he received his doctoral training in the field of industrial and organizational psychology. His professional affiliations include the American Psychological Association, the Institute of Management Consultants, the Society for Human Resources Management, the International Coaching Federation, and the American Society for Training and Development.

Thought Leadership

He is a regular presenter at professional conferences, and his work has been featured in a variety of publications including Human Resource Executive magazine, Training magazine, and Psychology Today.

Executive/Managerial Selection

Profitable and high-performing organizations have strong teams of executives and managers at their core, and this is not by chance.

Staffing/Retention Strategies

Successful organizations are continually refining the processes used to hire the right people, and then retain the key talent that has been hired.

Talent Evaluation

Who are the high potential and emerging leaders within your organization?

HR Best Practices

PDP can be counted on to provide expert counsel on a wide variety of Human Resource topics.

Mentoring/Team Building

Getting your employees focused on a set of common goals – and ensuring that employees work together effectively in pursuit of these goals -- is perhaps the biggest challenge faced by all organizations.

Succession Planning

Organizations not only need to be staffed to meet the business challenges of today, but also need to prepare for the human capital and leadership challenges of tomorrow.

360/Organizational Surveys

Surveys can also be used to assess the morale of employees, as well as their perceptions of the work environment, of the supervisory practices being implemented by the organization, of the level and quality of the communications they receive, of their overall level of job satisfaction, etc.

Personalized Coaching

Personalized or Executive Coaching involves the establishment of a one-on-one relationship between the participant and a PDP consultant for the purposes of obtaining feedback, the better understanding of one’s development needs, and the implementation of a developmental action plan.

About People Development Partners

People Development Partners is a management consulting firm specializing in leadership development, management training, managerial selection, and succession planning activities. Douglas Klippel is an experienced HR consultant who has worked with a variety of Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies on issues such as management development strategies, succession planning initiatives, talent management strategies, and executive development initiatives. He has also provided individual coaching services for senior-level executives.

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