2006 SIOP Leading Edge Consortium Speakers
Nisha Advani is Director of Executive Development at Genentech. In this role she oversees the development and alignment of ED processes, including succession planning and talent reviews, 360 assessment, executive coaching, and targeted executive development.
With almost 20 years experience in leadership and organizational development, Nisha specializes in working with senior leaders, their teams and organizations to enhance their effectiveness and adaptability in rapidly-changing work environments.
Working at Cisco Systems from early 2000 to late 2003 (a period of dramatic change in the telecommunications industry) Nisha designed and implemented: high impact executive education solutions for high potential directors and vice presidents, and OE initiatives, including organizational redesign and strategic change. Prior to Cisco, Nisha did OE/LD work in market-leading
service companies including, Anthem Electronics in electronics distribution (Silicon Valley) and InterContinental Hotels (New York City) in the hospitality industry. She also has a breadth of experience as an external consultant, primarily in the USA and India.
Nisha holds a PhD in Organizational Psychology from
Columbia
University, a Master’s in Administration from Cornell, and an M.A. in Social Relations from Johns Hopkins. She was initiated into the Phi Beta Kappa society and “Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities”. Born and raised in India, Nisha came to the to study psychology and its applications in the workplace, and now focuses on using social science principles and practices to enhance leadership and organizational effectiveness. She has lived on three continents, traveled extensively and speaks three languages.
Neil Anderson, Professor of Work & Organizational Psychology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, is founding editor of the International Journal of Selection and Assessment. He has co-authored and edited a number of books including the Handbook of Industrial, Work and Organizational Psychology and the Blackwell Handbook of Selection. His work has appeared in several scholarly journals including Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Relations, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and the International Journal of Selection and Assessment. Neil has on-going research projects, either collaboratively or alone, into innovation and creativity in the workplace, interviewer and applicant decision making in assessment interviews, work group socialization of graduates, the structure and psychometric properties of five factor model occupational personality inventories, and the practitioner-researcher divide in work and organizational psychology. Committed to an international perspective in work psychology, Neil has been visiting professor to the University of Minnesota and the School of Management, Zhejiang University (China). Neil is Fellow of the British Psychological Society, SIOP, and the APA. He has advised numerous organizations in the UK, Europe, and the USA on issues related to personnel psychology including British Aerospace, the British Army, Shell, and NASA in the U.S. (Jupiter Mission).
Dave Bartram, BA, DPhil, CPsychol, FErgS, FBPS, is Research Director of SHL Group plc. Prior to joining SHL in 1998, he was Dean of the Faculty of Science and the Environment, and Professor of Psychology at the University of Hull. He is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and a Fellow of the Ergonomics Society. He is Past-President and a Council member of the International Test Commission (ITC), Chair of the BPS Steering Committee on Test Standards and of the European Federation of Psychologists Association’s (EFPA) Standing Committee on Tests and Testing. He is President of the International Association of Applied Psychology’s Division 2 on measurement and assessment.
He has led the development of test quality standards and test user qualifications in the BPS and EFPA. He also led the development of the ITC’s International Guidelines for Test Use. He is co-author of the recent ITC Guidelines for Computer-based and Internet Delivered Testing.
He is the author of several hundred scientific journal articles, papers in conference proceedings, books and book chapters in a range of areas relating to occupational assessment and computer-based testing. He received the award for Distinguished Contribution to Professional Psychology from the BPS in 2004.
Allan H. Church, PhD, is Vice President of Organization and Management Development (OMD) for PepsiCo where he is responsible for leading the cross-divisional talent management and people development agenda. This includes designing core processes and tools such as the Performance Management Process, Global Organizational Health Survey, 360-degree feedback, functional competency models, People Planning and Gameplanning Processes, and high-potential identification programs. Allan joined PepsiCo in December 2000. Previously he spent nine years as an external OD consultant working for W. Warner Burke Associates where he designed customized 360-feedback and organizational survey interventions for Fortune 100 clients. Allan also spent several years at IBM in the Communications Measurement & Research, and Corporate Personnel Research departments. On the side, he has served as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, and is currently a Visiting Faculty Scholar at Benedictine University. An active writer, he has authored 4 books, 12 book chapters, and over 100 articles. Currently he is serving as co-editor with Janine Waclawski of the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology’s Professional Practice book series. Allan received his PhD in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University. In 1999 he received the OD Consultant of the Year award from the Organization Development Institute.
Lillian Eby is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia where she contributes to the Ph.D. program in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and the Executive MBA Program in the Terry College of Business. She has published and presented over 125 scholarly articles on organizational careers and has been studying organizational mentoring in particular for the last 8 years. Her research has been published in outlets such as Personnel Psychology, the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Journal of Vocational Behavior, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, among other journals. She also is co-editing a multidisciplinary scholarly book on mentoring that is due out in May, 2007.
Bob Eichinger is CEO of Lominger Limited, Inc. and Co-creator of The LEADERSHIP ARCHITECT® Suite. He has been working with managers and executives on personal development for over 40 years. He has been a one-on-one feedback giver from both inside and outside organizations. He has also served on feedback teams within courses and off-site in various organizations and public courses. He has lectured extensively on the topic of executive and management development and has served on the Board of the Human Resource Planning Society, a professional association of people charged with the responsibility of management and executive development in their organizations. Bob has worked personally with well over 1,000 managers and executives during his career providing developmental suggestions contained in The LEADERSHIP ARCHITECT® Suite.
Eric Elder is the Learning and Organizational Effectiveness executive supporting Bank of America’s CFO function, headquartered in Charlotte, NC. In this role he is responsible for leading leadership and executive development initiatives, talent planning, and organizational development activities.
For 3 years prior to assuming this position, Eric was responsible for leading Executive Recruiting & Development for Bank of America. In this role, he had responsibility for enterprise-wide executive recruiting, diversity/exploratory talent recruiting, internal talent movement, new executive on-boarding, and high-potential development programs.
Before joining Bank of America, he worked for Bristol-Myers Squibb Company as Director, Executive Staffing & Development, and prior to that, as Director within the Center for Leadership Development. Before Eric became an internal practitioner, he worked as an external consultant with RHR International, Towers Perrin, and Development Dimensions International (DDI). Eric received his BA degree in Psychology from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and his PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin.
Peter Fasolo, PhD, is currently Vice President, Global Talent Management for Johnson & Johnson. He has responsibility for executive assessment and development for the Company and works closely with the senior leadership to determine the talent needs of the business to execute the Corporate strategy. Prior to his current role, Peter was Worldwide Vice President, Human Resources, Cordis Corporation. He worked closely with the Executive Team to redefine the Franchise strategy and was intimately involved in the acquisition work of the business.
Prior to joining Cordis, Peter spent 13 years with the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMS), where he most recently was the Vice President of Leadership Development & Organizational Effectiveness. His other assignments at BMS included Vice President Human Resources, Americas Region supporting Primary Care, Oncology & Immunology for Canada, US, and Latin America; Vice President, Human Resources International Medicines (Paris, France) where he was responsible for Human Resource’s strategy for Europe, Latin America, Canada, and Asia-Pacific; Vice President, Human Resources for the Zimmer Division of BMS (Warsaw, Indiana), an orthopedic surgery group; and Director Human Resources Development (New York City). Peter began his career as an Adjunct Professor and consultant for Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Peter published articles in Journal of Applied Psychology (1989; 1999) and Academy of Management Journal (1990). In addition, he published a book chapter in Organizational Politics, Justice and Support (1995). Prior to joining Cordis, Peter spent 13 years with the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMS), where he most recently was the Vice President of Leadership Development & Organizational Effectiveness.His other assignments at BMS included Vice President Human Resources, Americas Region supporting Primary Care, Oncology & Immunology for Canada, US, and Latin America; Vice President, Human Resources International Medicines (Paris, France) where he was responsible for Human Resource’s strategy for Europe, Latin America, Canada, and Asia-Pacific; Vice President, Human Resources for the Zimmer Division of BMS (Warsaw, Indiana), an orthopedic surgery group; and Director Human Resources Development (New York City).Peter began his career as an Adjunct Professor and consultant for Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Peter earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Organizational Psychology from The University of Delaware (1989), a Master of Arts degree in Industrial Psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University (1986), and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Providence College (1984).
Glenn Hallam, PhD, is founder of Creative Metrics. He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1990 and worked with Personnel Decisions Research Institutes and the Center for Creative Leadership before starting Creative Metrics in 1997. He has been active in developing systems and doing research in the areas of leadership development, 360 feedback and performance management, focusing on systems and processes that are “deceptively simple” and easy for clients to use. He lives in Tallahassee Florida with his wife and two children.
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Brooks Holtom specializes in organizational behavior and human resource management. His current research focuses on how organizations acquire, develop, and retain human and social capital. He teaches courses in organizational behavior, human resource management, and negotiation. He works with executives on issues involving decision making, negotiation, leadership, motivation, and strategic human resource management. His recent publications include “Why people stay: Using job embeddedness to predict voluntary turnover,” which was a finalist for the Academy of Management Journal Best Paper Award and “How to keep your best employees: The development of an effective retention policy,” which was a finalist for the Academy of Management Executive Best Paper Award. His work has appeared in the Journal of Applied Psychology, the International Journal of Conflict Management, the Journal of Managerial Issues, Human Resource Management Journal, Human Resource Management Review, and the Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education. He is an ad hoc reviewer for the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Management, and the Journal of Business Research. He has taught at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University and the College of Business Administration at Marquette University. While at Marquette University he won the Teaching Excellence Award. He has served as a consultant to many organizations including Citibank, Nordstrom, the U.S. Air Force. and the Tennessee Department of Correction. Professor Holtom has presented Executive Education seminars to Northwestern Mutual, Briggs & Stratton, Aurora Health Care, and others.
John Howes' current role is the Director of Performance, Learning and Development for Nike. This organization focuses on providing HR solutions, both domestically and internationally, in the areas of talent management, learning and development, change/transition management, communications and organizational development. He has earned a Doctorate in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Colorado State University. Since completing his Ph.D., John has held progressively larger leadership positions focused on talent management, organizational development, selection and assessment, labor relations, training, and HR generalist work at various companies, including Sprint, AlliedSignal, Honeywell, and PacifiCorp/Scottish Power.
Nancy Jagmin, President, Jagmin Consulting, formerly VP, Organization Capability, Frito-Lay North America, recently launched a consulting practice after her retirement from PepsiCo this summer. During her 15-year PepsiCo career she worked in positions of increasing responsibility in the OD/MD/Training function in three PepsiCo divisions, including three years supporting Frito-Lay International. Nancy served as VP of Organizational Capability at Frito-lay North America for six years, where she was responsible for all the people processes and tools and the capability development initiatives supporting the business and strategy. Nancy’s particular areas of interest are talent management, leadership and career development, and organization design. Before joining PepsiCo, she worked for The Psychological Corporation and as an external consultant. She served on the Advisory Board of the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California for 10 years and CEO recently appointed her a Board member emerita. Nancy completed her Ph.D. in I-O Psychology at the University of Maryland.
Gary Johnsen, MA, LP, is the director of Operations at Creative Metrics. He is a licensed psychologist in the state of Minnesota. Prior to joining Creative Metrics, as a clinical director of a multi-site outpatient practice, was the director of the UnitedHealth Group’s Optum employee assistance program focusing on workplace training, performance improvement, psychological workplace issues, management consultation and Critical Incident Stress Debriefings. He was the global director for Volt Services and managed the contingent worker program at 3M. He is trained in the PMI project management methodology and went through black belt training in six sigma. He is currently focused on researching best practices for performance management, 360 feedback and organizational surveys. He has a passion about delivering effective talent management solutions to customers that result in real business results. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with his wife and family. He has one daughter working in Washington DC and his other daughter is finishing her senior year in high school.
Leslie W. Joyce is Vice President and Chief Learning Officer for The Home Depot, the world’s largest home improvement retailer. She has responsibility for all aspects of designing, developing, and delivering learning solutions for Home Depot’s 380,000 associates and leaders. Her areas of expertise include executive and leadership development, technical training, learning technology, and organizational effectiveness. Leslie joined the Home Depot in 2002 as Director, Organization Effectiveness and was responsible for individual, team, and organizational assessment, leadership development processes, competency modeling, employee selection processes, and organization design and development.
Prior to joining The Home Depot, Leslie was Global Director, Organization Effectiveness for GlaxoSmithKline, the world’s second largest pharmaceutical company. Leslie was responsible for global organizational research and effectiveness programs and processes to include change effectiveness and organization development. Prior to GlaxoSmithKline, Leslie held the role of Vice-President Human Resources and Organizational Development at ClinTrials Research, Inc.
Leslie serves on the Advisory Board for the Executive MBA program at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, the Atlanta Human Resources Leadership Forum, and the Atlanta chapter of ASTD and is a founding member of ASTD’s Learning Executives Network. She is also an active member of SIOP. Leslie holds a PhD in I-O psychology and from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Michigan State University Professor Ellen Ernst Kossek holds degrees from
Yale
University
(PhD), the University of Michigan (MBA), and
Mount
Holyoke
(AB with honors in psychology). She has been elected to the Board of Governors of the National Academy of Management and Chair of its Gender and Diversity Division; and also a Fellow of APA and SIOP. She serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Resource Management Journal, Human Relations, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and AOM Learning and Education Journal. She has published over 40 referred articles and chapters. She has written or edited six books, most recently Work and Life Integration and the Handbook of Work and Family (both LEA Press, 2005). Her new research includes serving as associate director of the Center for Work, Family Health and Stress as part of the Workplace, Family Health and Well-being Network, funded by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (http://wfsupport.psy.pdx.edu/ ). Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, she is also starting a new study on work group flexibility http://www.worklifeflexibility.msu.edu/ and has just finished another Sloan study on managing professionals in new work forms (http://flex-work.lir.msu.edu/ ). She has worked on organizational issues and consulted to and trained managers in North America, Europe and
Asia
.
Bill Macey is CEO of Valtera Corporation and has 30 years of experience in consulting with organizations in various facets of individual and organizational assessment and diagnostics. A licensed psychologist in Illinois, he has been an entrepreneur since 1977 and prides himself on having established a professional services firm based on the scientist-practitioner model. In 2006, he guided Valtera in a merger with Jeanneret & Associates of Houston, Texas. Bill is a SIOP and APA Fellow as well as a SIOP past president. He received his PhD from Loyola University Chicago in 1975.
Dr. Dana McDonald-Mann is the Director of Executive Development at Wachovia managing a range of Executive Development offerings, including programs and coaching offerings. She also had primary responsibility for building the strategy for Executive Development in Wachovia. This strategy includes a focus on high potential development, development of high potentials across diverse groups, and development for our most senior leaders (i.e. one to two levels below the CEO).
Previously, she was a team leader in leadership Development at Wachovia with responsibility for curriculum design and development, measurement, and integration across development solutions.
Prior to joining Wachovia, Dana held various consulting positions focused on leadership and executive assessment, feedback, coaching and development. These roles have included independent consultant as well as senior consultant and program/product manager positions at Development Dimension International (DDI) and the Center for Creative Leadership. She also has extensive experience working globally providing feedback and assessment for multinational executives in India, China, and
Europe .
She holds a Masters and PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the
University of
Maryland and a BA in Psychology from
Wake
Forest
University . She has authored and co-authored numerous book chapters and presentations on a variety of leadership development topics including advances in training and the cross-cultural use of multi-rater feedback.
Jeff McHenry is Director of People and Organizational Capability at Microsoft, where he is responsible for talent management and leadership and organizational development for the Worldwide Sales, Services & Marketing Group. His chief areas of interest include learning from experience, succession planning, and leadership continuity. He has published and articles and presented a number of workshops on these topics. Prior to joining Microsoft, Jeff worked at Allstate Insurance, the American Institutes for Research and Personnel Decisions Research Institute. He also has taught in the Human Resources programs at Seattle Pacific University and George Washington University. Jeff is currently the President of the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology.
Deborah E. Rupp holds faculty positions in both the
Institute of
Labor and Industrial Relations and the Department of Psychology at the
University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Colorado State University.
Rupp conducts research on the use of developmental assessment centers, and is the director of the Laboratory for the Study of Developmental Assessment Centers (DACLab), a multinational and multidisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners conducting many projects in this area. She is the co-authored the new edition of Assessment Centers in Human Resource Management with George C. Thornton, and was the first ever recipient of the Douglas W. Bray and Ann Howard Award (for research on leadership assessment and development), Rupp also conducts research in the areas of organizational justice and workplace bias. Her work has appeared in outlets such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Research in Personnel and Human Resource Management, Research in Multilevel Issues, and the Psychologist Manager Journal. Her research is supported by funding from the SIOP Foundation, the State Farm Companies Foundation, the Korean Psychological Testing Institute, the Center for Human Resource Management, the Center for International Business Education and Research.
Rupp has consulted for groups such as the State University Civil Services System, The Korean Civil Service Commision, The SK Corporation, Virginia Department of Correction, Sun Microsystems, Colorado Department of Human Services, CIB Marine Bancshares, Rockwell Automation, and Solutia (formaerly Monsanto).
Maura Stevenson joined Starbucks Coffee Company in April 2004. As director of
Partner Insights , Maura is responsible for overseeing all partner (employee) research, including the global Partner View Survey, pulse surveys, custom research consulting, 360 degree feedback, and assessments. Maura also leads Starbucks
Mission Review process, which provides our partners (employees) with a way to provide feedback on how well the company is living our Mission Statement & Guiding Principles.
Before joining Starbucks, Maura held several different positions at Merrill Lynch. While at Merrill Lynch, she led the employee research function, worked in learning and development, and managed performance management and succession management for Merrill Lynch’s technology and services organization. Prior to that, Maura worked as a researcher for the Hartford Insurance Company.
Maura holds a doctorate in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the Ohio State University, a master’s degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the Ohio State University, and a bachelor of arts in Psychology from Amherst College.
Paul Yost is Senior Research Specialist in the People and Organization Capability group at Microsoft where his responsibilities include talent management, executive assessment strategy and selection and validation work. His primary interests include: executive development, talent management, learning from experience, and the leadership development of pastors and clergy. Prior to joining Microsoft, Paul worked at Boeing, GEICO Insurance, and Battelle Research. In addition to his full-time position at Microsoft, he also teaches part-time in the Organizational Psychology graduate program at Seattle Pacific University.