What We Do
We specialize in helping organizations overcome costly leadership and team inefficiencies by delivering precise assessment tools and talent solutions. Our scientifically validated assessments dive deep, identifying True Talent, including the core strengths, potential risks, and motivations within your teams. This insight allows you to make informed decisions, from leadership development to employee selection, equipping your organization to save time and money while achieving sustainable success.
From executive coaching to employee selection, our comprehensive services span all areas of performance. We use advanced psychological insights and practical business expertise to equip your organization for success.
What Sets Us Apart
Our assessments set a new standard for accuracy and depth in understanding individuals. They go beyond surface-level insights to provide a detailed, personalized analysis that significantly enhances self-awareness. By measuring key personality traits, potential derailment risks, and intrinsic motivators, we uncover what truly drives individuals, how they may thrive, and where they may face challenges. This holistic approach empowers people to unlock their full potential with clarity and confidence.
Designed for real-world impact, we:
- Strengthen leadership capabilities
- Improve hiring decisions
- Align talent with business strategy
- Offer a scalable talent development resource for the entire enterprise through our technology platform, True Talent Coach (CDR-U Coach)
- Enable our clients to capture the data needed to build a True Talent Inventory
We enhance communication, stronger working relationships, and sustained superior performance that drives measurable results.
A Proven Approach
At the heart of our work is the CDR 3-Dimensional Assessment Suite®—a suite built on decades of research and expertise. This powerful tool creates a True Talent Profile™ and reveals candid insights into personality, leadership risk factors, and motivators. With these insights, we create customized, impactful strategies to foster leadership and team growth, building a resilient organization equipped for future challenges
CDR Coaches & Consultants
We proudly partner with a global network of certified executive coaches, consultants, and trainers, with a strong presence across the country. Our team of over 200 CDR-certified coaches has a proven track record of driving successful leadership development across diverse industries and sectors.
On average, our coaches have:
- Extensive Experience: Our coaches and consultants bring over 20 years of expertise in leadership development or executive roles.
- Diverse Expertise: Our team has worked across a broad spectrum of industries, including corporate, non-profit, and government sectors.
- Highly Qualified Backgrounds: With advanced degrees, including master’s and doctoral qualifications.
In addition, CDR has strategic alliances with The Alexcel Group, a premier international network of executive coaches, and CoachSource, which boasts over 1,000 coaches globally. This partnership approach allows us to provide highly effective coaching and leadership solutions that address your unique organizational needs.
The CDR Leadership Team
NANCY PARSONS | FOUNDER
Nancy Parsons is one of today’s foremost experts in combining the science of assessments with the art of developing people. As CEO & President of CDR Companies, LLC, she sheds new light on personality strengths, inherent risks and motivation and change performance, careers and lives. Esteemed author of the Amazon best-seller, Women Are Creating the Glass Ceiling and Have the Power to End It, Nancy is the 2019 MEECO International Thought Leader of Distinction in Executive Coaching and continues to break barriers in her field.
In 1998, Nancy co-authored the breakthrough CDR 3-D Assessment Suite®. Combining this scientifically-validated assessment suite with cutting-edge technology, Nancy and her team launched True Talent Coach in July of 2020.
Nancy provides executive coaching services for the C-Suite and leaders across all sectors, facilitates strategic executive team development sessions, and instructs custom “Authentic Leadership” and “Women in Leadership” workshops. Additionally, she instructs and leads CDR Executive Coaches’ Certification Workshops and teaches advanced coaches’ programs.
Kimberly R. Leveridge, Ph.D. | Chief Research and Analytics Officer/Consultant, Partner
She has in-depth expertise in: development of personality and motivational assessment tools, executive and professional coaching, performance measurement, personnel selection, leadership development, management of work teams, facilitating teams, work motivation, management, employee relations, in-depth technical research and validity analysis linking assessments to performance measures, design and delivery of workshops and certification programs, mentoring and training staff, strategic management, salary administration, customer relations, and health and stress issues in organizations.
Prior to co-founding CDR Assessment Group with Nancy Parsons in 1998, Kimberly served six years as a Senior Client Services & Operations Consultant for Hogan Assessment Systems (HAS). She is considered an industry expert on using psychological measurement to develop, retain, and motivate leaders and professionals.
Christine Klatt | Vice President of Business Operations, Partner
Christine brings 25 years of experience in resource and project management to CDR from the geosynthetics industry. During her tenure in geosynthetics, she successfully managed her division through a merger, a change of ownership, an acquisition, two enterprise software implementations, an expansion of double size and capacity, and through reductions.
With a talent for forward thinking and her comprehensive approach to accomplishing goals, she set the bar for field services, and professional organizations in the geosynthetics’ industry adopted her company’s criteria for levels of professional certification.
Sydney Hoffman | Marketing Specialist
The CDR Advisory Board
Angela Spadaro | Partner & Chief Sales Officer, Xelerate, LLC
Angela Spadaro is an accomplished Sales Executive that for the past two decades has helped companies make giant leaps in sales with a client-focused approach that revamps process and strategy taking them to continuous yearly increases.
Angela was a DI soccer player and team captain, she was a Magna Cum Laude graduate from Missouri State with a BS degree in Economics. After earning an MS in Occupational Therapy at Temple University, Angela then substantially increased the revenue and market share for CDR Assessment Group, a Leadership Development firm until 2012. From there, she opened the Philadelphia region for Insperity with unprecedented company success garnering multiple awards including the #1 Rookie Sales Award and she was Inducted into the Chairmain’s Club.
Revisiting Angela’s entrepreneurial roots she joined Xelerate as a Partner and CSO in 2015, increasing revenue and employee count by 3x in three years. She was awarded the SmartCEO Executive Award in February of 2017 and 2018 Philly/Jersey Man Magazine’s Woman of the Year.
In addition to her professional accolades, Angela sits on the board for Economics PA and The Center for Grieving Children. She was crowned Mrs. Pennsylvania in 2014.
Katie Moore | Manufacturing and Supply Chain Executive coach/ consultant
Katie Moore is the Owner and President of a boutique consulting firm that works with beverage companies as an executive coach. In addition, Katie works with these SMBs to scale and grow existing brands and improve speed to market on new product introductions by focusing on supply chain operations improvements.
Katie was formerly the Vice President, Procurement, Direct to Consumer Operations and New Product Development in the Wine and Spirits division of Constellation Brands, Inc. based out of Napa, California with over $600MM in spend under management. Prior to Constellation Brands, Katie spent time in marketing with General Electric and led plant operations for Bimbo Bakeries USA (formerly Sara Lee) and Anheuser Busch InBev.
Katie has passion for mobilizing high performing teams, driving culture change and solving complex manufacturing and supply chain challenges. She loves building exciting, superior products in the fast-moving consumer packaged goods world. She became a food production plant manager before she was 30. She’s worked as a tactical manager, a talent developer, an invested leader, a strategic thinker and as a global industry marketer.
Katie Moore received her Masters in Business Administration (with Honors) from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She graduated Cum Laude from Missouri University of Science and Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and minored in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Katie is certified as an executive coach using CDR Assessments.
Angie Westbrock | CEO, Standard AI
Angie Westbrock is a distinguished Senior Executive and CEO with over 20 years experience spanning the CPG and tech industries. Leveraging her background that includes leading stealth start-ups, pre-IPO ventures, and Fortune 500 companies, Angie excels at leveraging technology to solve real business problems. Her expertise in commercialization strategy and growth enables her to guide organizations through every phase of development. Passionate about building high-performance, diverse teams, Angie is dedicated to turning ambitious visions into reality.
Now, as CEO with Standard AI, she’s at the forefront of integrating AI and computer vision technology into physical retail environments to unlock insights with unparalleled fidelity about people, products, and interactions. Angie earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering and has held leadership positions with Lyft Inc, Habit LLC, HelloFresh, Sara Lee, and Anheuser-Busch.
Our Client Testimonials
“Using CDR Assessments has saved us time, money, and energy! Through CDR we are able to quickly discern which applicants best fit and encourage our culture. We have not had to ask an applicant we have hired through the CDR assessment process to leave the company.
As owners of the company, working with Nancy Parsons, we have recognized our strengths and weaknesses and how to use them to strengthen our growth while maintaining our culture. ”
Sheryl Chinowth
Sheryl Chinowth – CEO, Chinowth and Cohen Realtors
“The CDR 3D Suite is my favorite ‘deep dive’ leadership style assessment when coaching high-potential leaders and seasoned executives. It’s my go-to assessment suite. I genuinely like and trust the data and I genuinely like and trust the folks at CDR.”
Patricia Wheeler, Ph.D.
Managing Partner at The Levin Group LLC, Atlanta, GA
Martha Lee, Bush Foundation (former role)
Minneapolis, MN
“I was first introduced to the CDR assessment in 2008. At the time, I was in the process of developing a leadership development initiative that recipients of a Bush Leadership Fellowship would participate in. When Val Ulstad, MD, first recommended using the CDR 3-D Suite as part of the series, I was very dismissive. By this time in my professional life I had taken enough personality instruments, including Myers Briggs more than once, to find them all extremely under whelming and not very useful. Basically, these kinds of instruments were a waste of time in my opinion. Val persisted though, and finally I agreed to take the instrument and have her coach me.
By the time my coaching session with Val was done, I was a believer in the CDR. I had new ways of understanding myself and actions that I could take to get better results in my life. Participants in our seminars had the same reaction as I did to the CDR, which was super cool, especially given how diverse the group was professionally, ethnically and geographically.”
“I am hugely impressed with the output of the assessments. As a research psychologist, executive and consultant for the past 30 years, I can honestly say that this suite provided the most thought-provoking and insightful psychometric feedback that I've ever received. These are breakthrough products.”
Neville Osrin
Psychologist & Executive Coach, United Kingdom
Elaine Hamm, Ph.D., Chief Operating Officer
Oklahoma City, OK
“I gained valuable insights into my leadership style and I particularly enjoyed the feedback on how stress impacts me as a leader. That part of our session is something I use almost every day. As a scientist, the data-based assessment was very appealing and gave me some good data to rely on. While the assessments were very thorough, what I enjoyed most was my one-on-one coaching session. So much so that I wish I had done this years ago!
Finally, being at a startup pharmaceutical, money is always a concern for me and at first, I was hesitant; however, I immediately saw the benefit and know that the ROI on this investment will be high!”
Our Clients
CDR Assessments and services have been used for projects at all levels of leadership within the private and public sectors. Our organizational clients are from various industries, including health care, energy, transportation, retail, pharmaceuticals, food & beverage, service, technology, real estate, logistics, manufacturing, chemical, communications, insurance, non-profits, academia, banking/financial, and state and federal government entities.
