YSC Consulting Partners with Predictive Psychometrics Provider
July 29, 2019 – Global leadership strategy consultancy YSC Consulting has formed a partnership with predictive psychometrics provider 10x Psychology. Through the partnership, YSC’s JDI Model of Potential (Judgement, Drive, Influence) will be re-imagined digitally. Organizations will be able to evaluate the potential of their employees through the lens of JDI, providing both real-time insight into their talent populations together with tailored development interventions and fast-paced feedback loops.
“By partnering with 10x Psychology, we will have an incredibly experienced team in leadership, psychometrics and global operation,” said Rob Morris, chief innovation officer for YSC. “One of YSC’s goals has always been to help organizations build leadership teams that will help them achieve their future business strategies. To do this, we have needed to understand and embed ourselves in the intentional design of the leadership and experience the interactions and shared culture of the organization.”
“10x Psychology’s best-in-class technology will allow our team to gather these insights more accurately and swiftly, and help us advise our clients more effectively,” said Mr. Morris. “It’s a natural next step for us to enhance the value proposition we’ve had since day one, and it’s an exciting partnership for YSC, 10x Psychology and our clients.”
Relevant Insights
Peter Saville, founder of 10x Psychology, said that in an increasingly complex world of work, with intense pressure on leadership, identifying and developing leaders of the future is critical to business performance. “Here at 10x Psychology, we know that our clients need the very best in people insight to identify and nurture the leaders of tomorrow, while delivering exceptional business value,” he said. “We enable clients to make well-informed, real-time decisions using relevant insights they can understand and trust. Using our unique blend of psychometric tools, broader measures of wellbeing and resilience, and our predictive performance methodology, we offer clients an accurate representation of each employee’s skills, motivators and work styles so that they can develop a robust and holistic measurement of hiring and development decisions.”
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Nick Shaw, CEO at 10x Psychology, said that through its partnership with YSC, his firm will be able to enhance the identification of leadership potential within a business, as well as complement YSC’s face-to-face assessment with 10x Psychology’s own scalable assessment solution. “This will allow our joint clients to identify potential and predict performance at all levels of their organizations,” he said. “This is the start of a long relationship with a highly trusted and renowned organization and we look forward to enabling YSC to develop its world-class leadership offering still further in the years ahead.”
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YSC Consulting delivers in-depth expertise and insight to senior stakeholders. 10x Psychology provides advanced psychometrics science, predictive analytics and machine learning to help businesses attract, retain and develop employees. “This distinctive partnership will see YSC and 10x Psychology develop a joint roadmap that will utilize 10x Psychology’s ground-breaking technology to drive increased scale, pace and accuracy of YSC’s services,” said 10x Psychology.
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The global partnership will apply to YSC’s extensive and high-profile client base, which spans 19 locations around the world. “Working together, YSC and 10x Psychology will be able to provide clients with the consistent models, inputs and data analytics to make quick, informed talent decisions across their entire organization,” said 10 Psychology.
A New CEO
This past spring, YSC Consulting announced that Eric Pliner would succeed Robert Sharrock as chief executive officer of the leadership strategy consultancy. Mr. Sharrock had previously indicated that he would take on a full-time client-facing role following the transaction and the delivery of a full year of business results.
May was a transition month for both leaders, after which Mr. Sharrock took on the full-time role of managing director for YSC’s board and CEO advisory practice beginning June 1. YSC’s global headquarters remains in London, with Mr. Pliner based in New York and travelling globally as needed.
“Robert has successfully led the business through five years of sustained growth and shaped the brand into a premier global leadership consultancy,” said Mr. Pliner. “I am thrilled and humbled by the opportunity to lead this iconic firm as we continue to serve world-class organizations in understanding and developing the critical leadership to achieve their future business strategies. Whether through individual executive assessment, pre-deal due diligence and post-deal integration for private equity transactions, design and execution of inclusive leadership and diversity strategy, coaching for senior executives and teams, resilient change leadership, and more, YSC’s global services are and will remain distinctive, characterful, and best-in-class.”
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Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief; Dale M. Zupsansky, Managing Editor; Stephen Sawicki, Managing Editor; and Andrew W. Mitchell, Managing Editor – Hunt Scanlon Media
