Brad Smart | SpeakerHub

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Bio

Brad Smart has conducted over 6,500 in-depth interviews with executives and is frequently acknowledged as the world’s foremost expert on hiring high performers. Hundreds of companies have achieved over 80% high performers hired using Brad’s methods and consulting.

Brad is a dynamic speaker with exciting true stories to capture audiences and leave them with all three key Topgrading “secrets” that they can use immediately to begin hiring much better talent. He has taught hundreds of Global 1000 CEOs and thousands of entrepreneurs how to pick almost all high performers, and he can teach your managers too.

Brad’s six books on hiring have all made best seller lists, and Topgrading, 3rd Ed. was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal top seller.

“I owe 50% of my success as CEO to the counsel of Brad Smart and to Topgrading.”

- Scott Clawson, CEO, Culligan

“Brad created the Topgrading methods that produced more than 80% A Players hired, which enabled General Electric to become the most valuable company in the world.”

- Jack Welch, Late CEO, General Electric

"With over $70 billion in assets, Topgrading is key to our strategies that have generated profits that would not have been possible without Topgrading.”

- Ken Griffin, CEO, CITADEL

Current position (1)

Founder, CEO

Topgrading

Degrees (3)

Ph.D., Management Psychology

Purdue University

1968 to 1970

MS Organizational Psychology

Purdue University

1967 to 1968

BS Business Administration

Miami University (Ohio)

1962 to 1966

Presentations

Presentations (5)

Hire Better Today

(1 hour; some audience participation)
Your company’s high performers are your most important levers to grow sales and profits. One high-performer can outperform three good performers.
Learn the facts: why hiring everywhere is awful, and the practical, proven methods that solve the 3 biggest hiring problems: shallow interviews, candidate hype, and worthless reference checks.

How to Triple Success Hiring A Players

(3 1/2 hour; substantial audience participation)
Fun, hands-on experiences provide insights into the three keys to hiring almost all A Players.
Audiences will learn practical Topgrading solutions that they can immediately implement to hire almost all high performers.

Using Topgrading: The Most Proven Hiring Method

(1-day live or virtual workshop)
This interactive program enables attendees to understand and solve the three problems that cause typical hiring methods to produce only 25% high performers hired. The experience includes coached practice conducting Topgrading Interviews so attendees leave confident that they can hire almost all high performers.

Public Topgrading Workshops

(1 ½ day; live or virtual)
CEOs, HR managers, and hiring managers attend our workshops to learn how to dramatically improve talent, and the company's bottom line. Attendees experience more rapid career growth because instead of having a mix of A, B and C Players, they systematically build teams of almost all A Players, and those teams perform much better.
• Immerse yourself in the secrets, shortcuts, and proven methods of Topgrading
• Enjoy action exercises that provide immediate "feel" for the methods
• Get personal coaching while conducting the famous Topgrading Interview
• See real Topgrading Snapshots, the best candidate screening tool ever
• Be inspired while networking with Topgraders who come back to learn the latest innovations

Private, Customized Topgrading Workshops

(1 ½ day at client location)
The Private Topgrading Workshop is customized to fit your company’s needs. A Topgrading Professional will study your company’s hiring processes and renovate them with Topgrading methods. We use our 40 years of experience to advise you on how to coordinate a seamless rollout and assure immediate improvement in hiring success.

Past talks (1)

Virtual Topgrading Workshop

Global

August 11, 2020