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OUR SPECIALITY: TACKLING TOUGH LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES


Entrust Kaplan DeVries with your organization's thorny leadership problems. We have consulted to CEOs and executive teams since 1992.
For example, we have helped:

  • a brilliant but destructive rising star take some of the edge off.
  • a CEO & COO, "odd bedfellows," forge a working relationship.
  • a management team in crisis weather the storm.
  • an outgoing Chairman/CEO groom possible successors.
  • a new CEO set leadership standards for the company.

In our 18th year of working at the top of the house, we hear from clients and colleagues that we are "the best in the business" and "thought leaders" in the leadership field.













Consulting Services


Executive Coaching


Helping executives become more versatile leaders.

Consulting to Leadership Teams


Helping leadership teams create synergy, manage conflict, and realize potential.

Customized Assessment Tools and Leadership Models


Helping organizations create the right leadership culture by identifying the best leadership model for them.

Leadership Versatility Index®

Our award-winning, patented, next-generation 360 feedback assessment.

What our clients say

“We are continually impressed with the value KDI’s R&D shop provides us with their applied research. They translate cutting–edge statistical analyses into meaningful and practical information that is easily interpreted by our senior management. We always feel confident making decisions based on their data and analyses.”

Ramzi Baydoun
Director Organization Effectiveness
Motorola Inc.














Executive Coaching, Succession Plans, Leader Development


News & Events

January 1, 2012, our firm’s 20th anniversary of innovative leadership-consulting to senior managers.

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“Filling your leadership pipeline, one manager at a time”

KDI Partner, Rob Kaiser, and Senior Consultant, Darren Overfield, were invited by Human Resources Executive magazine to present their research and application models for understanding the challenge managers face as they navigate upward transitions on the career path. Starting where Kaiser’s 2005 book, Filling the Leadership Pipeline, left off, the presenters shared findings to be published in the June 2011 special issue of The Psychologist-Manager Journal, guest edited by Kaiser, and entitled, ”The Leadership Pipeline: Fad, Fashion, or Fact?” Based on the updated research, the presenters also shared a concise model for HR/OD/Talent managers to implement when helping managers make a successful leap to the next level of leadership.

Date: May 12, 2011
Time: 2:30-3:30 p.m. ET

Red Auerbach, the nine-time NBA champion basketball coach, was once asked how to motivate a team. “One player at a time,” he replied. The same is true for filling your leadership pipeline, be it through internal or external candidates: You fill it one manager at a time. Of course, you need a robust system and scalable process, but you also must have strategies and practices that address the specific needs of each individual manager as he or she navigates the tricky transition into a larger role.

This Webinar summarized recent research that shows too many executives lead more like middle managers—which disengages their people, compromises their teams and lowers company performance. The presenters, Robert Kaiser and Darren Overfield of Kaplan DeVries Inc., will reviewed what’s required to lead effectively at both the manager and executive level—and why it’s so difficult for managers to reinvent their leadership to suit higher-level job demands. Also presented was a scalable methodology for helping managers make a successful upward transition.

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Consulting to CEOs
& Executive Teams
since 1992.
Kaplan DeVries Inc
1903-G Ashwood Ct
Greensboro, NC 27455 USA


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