What We Do
CDR Assessment Group is a globally recognized assessment, leadership development, and talent management firm. We lead the way with exceptional products, coaching, consulting, training solutions, and research. CDR Assessment Group digs deeper than others to reveal one’s true talent. From executive coaching to employee selection, we provide services that wrap around all areas of human performance. Our unique tools and distinctive coaching services are designed with the foremost psychological insights and applied business know-how.
CDR improves your business results by strengthening your leadership capability, equipping your leaders to make better hiring and succession decisions, and by enabling you to align talent with business strategy. Ultimately, you will see a positive impact to your bottom line by improving working relationships and communications, enhancing leadership and team effectiveness, and producing and sustaining superior performance results.
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!”
The CDR Leadership Team
NANCY PARSONS | PRESIDENT, FOUNDING PARTNER
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 CDR-U 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.
Sandra Johnson | Office Administrator
Sydney Hoffman | Marketing Specialist
Christine Klatt | Vice President of Business Operations, Partner
Christine brings 25 years of experience in resource and project management to CDR/CDR-U 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.
ED WHITE | Senior Consultant Special Projects
Ed’s academic credentials including a master’s in statistics, and MBA in management, and a doctorate in educational psychological provide him a unique perspective on understanding how managers learn and development in the workplace.
CDR Coaches & Consultants
We have a global team of certified executive coaches, consultants and trainers, with a large contingent available throughout the USA. Our team of worldwide expert CDR certified providers consists of more than 200 executive coaches and consultants, each with track record of successful leadership development. On average, our coaches, trainers and consultants have:
- more than 20 years of experience in leadership development or executive positions
- experience across a wide range of industry and government roles
- masters or doctoral degree level backgrounds
CDR has formed strategic alliances with The Alexcel Group, an elite group of international executive coaches and with CoachSource that has over 1,000 coaches worldwide and an exceptional coaching management system.
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.
