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Candy Albertsson PhD |
Dr. Candy Albertsson is Managing Director of Albertsson Consulting Limited and President of Albertsson Consulting Group, Incorporated. Candy is a talent management consultant and speaker specializing in leadership development, talent pools and the talent pipeline, high potential development, succession planning and strategic succession management and assessment centers to identify talent. She brings a strong blend of real world development and delivery, technical background and creative vision that has culminated in work that has been recognized as best practice in talent management and leadership development. Candy is the architect of the groundbreaking Development Experiences Blueprint™, a real-time web-based talent management tool that encapsulates the development roadmap required for success within an organization.
Building on 19 years of experience with BP, American Telephone & Telegraph and a variety of Global 500 and Fortune 500 clients, Candy delivers a range of best practice leadership development and talent management solutions designed to meet client specific needs. She has consulted in a wide range of industries, including: petroleum; aerospace and defense; semiconductors; banking; electronics and electrical equipment; financial services; gas and electric; telecommunications; airlines; insurance; scientific, photographic and control equipment; food production; oil services; industrial and farm equipment, as well as European management colleges and institutes. Candy has worked in more than twenty-five countries on four continents.
Candy is a member of the Duke Corporate Education Global Learning Resource Network. Duke Corporate Education has been ranked the world's #1 provider of custom executive education by both the Financial Times (six years in a row; 2003-2008) and BusinessWeek (in their first three biennial rankings in October 2003, 2005 and 2007). She is a member of the Financial Times Knowledge Dialogue, a group of 120 'internationally renowned Thought Leaders' who offer their expertise on leadership development, strategy and organizational change to organizations and universities through videoconference. Candy was invited by the London Speaker Bureau to join Boardroom Insights, a group of ten 'business leaders and thinkers' providing a bespoke advisory service to corporate executives. She has also been a faculty member for the Institute for Management Studies (IMS), where she was invited to deliver full-day seminars on best practices in talent management to their Fortune 500 members. She has delivered more than 75 keynote addresses, presentations and workshops at European and American conferences and professional meetings and published articles about talent management and leadership development issues.
Prior to establishing Albertsson Consulting, Candy spent ten years with BP where she led the design, development and delivery of an integrated set of leadership development processes that provided the cornerstone for the development of BP’s executive team and emerging talent pool. Candy held the senior talent management position within BP where she was responsible for the delivery of the Group High Potential Program, succession planning and strategic succession management for top 500 positions and assessment centers worldwide. In that role, she worked closely with the Group Managing Directors and other senior executives on a variety of strategic and operational leadership development and talent management deliverables, including: monthly full-day leadership talent reviews; supply and demand for top 25 and top 120 leadership positions; strategic reviews of the talent pool and emerging talent pipeline;
top 25, top 120 and top 500 leadership succession planning; annual strategic review of succession plans; prioritized candidate lists for top 500 leadership deployment; assessment centers to identify and develop talent; coaching and mentoring high potentials; talent strategies and the supporting infrastructure to develop world class leadership.
The BP leadership development story has been recognized as world class. American leadership guru Warren Bennis and Linkage collaborated on a study of 350 organizations worldwide and identified 15 organizations with best practices in leadership development. They invited Dr. Albertsson to contribute a chapter on her talent management work at BP to their Best Practices in Leadership Development Handbook. Overall, Candy spent three years at their US headquarters in Cleveland followed by seven years at their world headquarters in London.
Previously, Candy worked for American Telephone & Telegraph, the widely recognized pioneer of assessment center technology, as a Research Consultant in their Assessment and Selection Division at their world headquarters in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. In this role, she was part of a team of more than 100 psychologists who delivered selection and assessment services for more than one million employees (pre-divestiture).
Candy earned her PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at The University of Akron and completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology at Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio. She is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), the Society of Industrial-Organizational Psychologists (SIOP) and the Erie Canal Applied Psychologists (ECAP).
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