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DDI World - Been at the heart of leadership change for over 25 years

Our Passion

We create superior experiences for leaders and those—like you—responsible for delivering leadership solutions. And we’ve delivered on this promise for nearly five decades by dedicating ourselves to the science and practice of leadership, bringing to life innovative ideas that have changed the way organizations find, grow, and inspire leaders. Our people are passionate about your solution because we believe that better leaders lead to a better future. 

Every day, our 1,100 associates around the world work side-by-side with clients across 93 countries to build a pipeline of leaders to meet today’s—and tomorrow’s—business challenges.

What Sets Us Apart

The People Experience

The No. 1 reason clients love working with DDI? Our people.

With your insight into your biggest challenges, your DDI partners apply focus, passion, and a relentless drive to co-create solutions that are unique to your organization and aimed squarely at achieving the results you need to succeed.

Our people—your partners—are part scientist, part solution architect, delivering the research-based rigor we’ve built our reputation on, coupled with the flexibility, innovation, and insight needed to build a solution that is truly yours and measurably impactful.

The Solution Experience

There are dozens of ways to solve leadership challenges. But only one matters: the one that works to close the gap between where your leaders are today and where they need to be tomorrow.

We know from nearly five decades of diagnosing and developing leaders that catalyzing, compelling experiences create lasting, meaningful behavior change and better business results. That’s why your solution—whether face-to-face or virtual, assessment or development or the powerful synergy of both—is designed to engage your leaders and show them how what they learn about themselves and what it takes to be an effective leader applies directly to what they are responsible for impacting in your organization.

Proof of Impact

The Global Experience

Developing leaders who need to operate in one country is tough. Building leaders ready to span geographies and cultures exponentially raises the stakes and complexity.

We’re built for this.

Our 1,100 people operate across 93 countries. We’re ready—wherever you are—to break down this global challenge into local wins, adapting your unique solution to the cultural nuances of your leaders around the world.

What We Do

Over the past four and a half decades, we’ve honed our expertise in the science and practice of leadership strategy, selection, development, and succession with thousands of clients around the world. What we’ve learned is that without focused, upfront planning and continuously measured outcomes, you are destined to fail. That’s why we always:

Start with defining your leadership future by hardwiring leader capabilities—who you’ll need and what they’ll be required to do—into your organization’s strategy.

Measure and provide insight to help you forecast future needs and prove the impact of your work.

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Dr Tommy Weir - Speaker on All Things Leadership

Globally recognized as an authority on leading in Fast-Growth and Emerging Markets, Dr. Tommy Weir is an author, renowned speaker, CEO Coach, and advisor on senior executive leadership. He has rare insights through working with over 3,00Dr. Tommy Weir is a renowned speaker, advisor, and author on innovative leadership. Globally recognized as an authority on leading in Fast-Growth and Emerging Markets, Dr. Tommy, has rare insights through working with over 2,000 CEOs and business leaders from around the world, ranging from Fortune 100 companies to newly established corporations in Asia and the Middle East. 



He is credited with the breakthrough discovery of Leading and Succeeding in the Emerging Markets, which assists leaders in making sense of complexity, diversity, ambiguity and youthfulness in first generation corporate societies. This work has now found its way into the core practices of leaders and senior teams across the globe.



“He is credited with the breakthrough discovery of Leading and Succeeding in the Emerging Markets”


Dr. Tommy has a rich history of leadership development advising governments and corporations on strategic and future-oriented leadership. He has spearheaded the creation of innovative and award-winning leadership programs. His unique experience of working with over 80 nationalities is a welcome breath of fresh air in today’s diverse and multicultural work environment. 


He is the author of “The CEO Shift” - a thought-provoking book that explores the new global business environment and challenges corporate leaders to shift their practices in order to survive in a global economy. Since its publication, he has presented “The CEO Shift” in corporations, universities and privately to world business leaders. 



Dr. Weir holds a doctorate in strategic leadership from Regent University. He is an expert commentator on leadership and his writings are featured in prominent publications, including weekly column in The National and a monthly contribution to Gulf Business. His latest book, “10 Tips for Leading in the Middle East” is due for publication in 2011. 
download the pdf of this bio0 CEOs and business leaders from around the world, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to newly established corporations in Asia and the Middle East.



Dr. Tommy is credited with the breakthrough discovery of Leading and Succeeding in the Emerging Markets, a business approach that assists leaders in making sense of complexity, diversity, ambiguity and youthfulness in first generation corporate societies. This work has now found its way into the core practices of leaders and senior teams across the globe.



His books include: 10 Tips for Leading in the Middle East, The CEO Shift as well as The Cheeseburger Theory and other leadership observations.


With a rich history of leadership development advising governments and corporations on strategic and future-oriented leadership, he has spearheaded the creation of innovative and award-winning leadership programs. His unique experience of working with over 80 nationalities is a welcome breath of fresh air in today’s diverse and multicultural work environment.


Holding a doctorate in strategic leadership from Regent University, Dr. Weir is the Founder of the Emerging Markets Leadership Center (EMLC). He is the leadership columnist for The National along with his writings being featured in other prominent publications. 

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The Global Growth Institute

WHAT WE DO

Blueprints For Growth

Our Blueprints for Growth methodology will help you identify the growth spaces and growth opportunities for your organisation and your people all built around our Growth Space™ Methodology – the 16 building blocks of sustainable organisational change.



World Class Manager

Building industry leading management teams by applying the 12 key habits of world class management - insights from 1000s of managers, in over 500 companies around the world. Real-life, actionable practical tools and tips from some of the best management practice on the planet 


Aligning Organisations

Our Big Conversation Methodology is a fast track tool to drive the organisational clarity and alignment essential for the successful delivery of your strategy.   

Leadership Presence, Impact & Brand

The YOU+ Framework helps leaders develop the essential leadership presence, impact and brand for personal and organisational success.