Simon Brittain
Managing Partner
Asssessment and Talent Management
MSc, CPsychol, AFBPsS
Simon leads the Kiddy assessment team and the development of our thinking and tools in this area. He specialises in executive profiling for both selection and development. His approach combines commercial pragmatism with psychological insight and industry benchmarks to identify an individual`s key drivers and levers - enabling hiring recommendations or identifying development interventions.
Simon has expertise in high-potential assessment, executive assessment and development centre and assessment centre design. Simon also helps our clients with talent management strategy identifying hi-potentials and succession management. He has extensive experience within the banking and insurance sectors, as well as in engineering/defence and professional services and is an experienced user of most Level B instruments.
Simon is a leading authority on assessment and talent management issues, contributing to articles in the national press (including the FT), HR press (including People Management and Personnel Today), trade and psychology magazines, as well as a number of book chapters for the FT and Association of Business Psychologists.
Before joining Kiddy in the mid 1990s, Simon worked as a consultant in the Post Office, where he managed the assessment team, for a test publisher and a general HR firm. He is a chartered psychologist, a principal member of the Association of Business Psychologists and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
