Meet the Financial Officer & Secretary Candidates
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Bradley J. Brummel
Biography
Bradley Brummel is a professor of psychology and Director of the I/O PhD program at the University of Houston. He received his PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research has been published in Personnel Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Relations, and Journal of Business and Psychology. He is currently an associate editor of Journal of Business and Psychology. Brad works with individuals and organizations as a coach and a consultant. He is certified in Hogan Assessments and in narrative coaching.
Dr. Brummel has served on multiple SIOP committees and taskforces including Education and Training (2009-11), Visibility (2012-14), and Communications (2019-21). He has been the Taskforce lead for the Strategic Partnerships Committee (2023-24), and chair of External Relations (2022-23) and the Hogan Award (2018, 19). He is member of the Teaching Committee (2025-28) and chair of the Graduate Program Leader Resources Subcommittee (2026-28).
Brad has served in elected and appointed roles including the Kendall-Whittier Incorporated (KWI) Board of Directors (2015-20), Faculty Senate president and vice president at The University of Tulsa (2015-17), Faculty Senate Financial Review Committee (2018-22), and Representative to the Board of Trustees Resources and Efficiencies Committee (REF; 2021-22). He also served as the president of the Society of Psychologists in Leadership (SPL; 2023-24) and on the Board of Directors (2021-25). He has run his LLC for the last 10 years. Throughout these roles he has experience with reading financial documents, framing strategic decisions, and advising on organizational financial decision-making.
Statement
Regardless of the stated mission, every organization has one document that reveals its priorities, and that document is the budget. I believe that successful organizations must actively and continuously assess the alignment between their mission and the way they spend money. I also believe that the budget should be as transparent as possible to the organization members so that they are able to trust that the organization is actively aligning with its mission. I have worked to help boards make decisions that honor this alignment and communicate the reasons for these decisions to the members. Whether it was a nonprofit deciding whether to sell or develop a community garden, a university deciding how to distribute a limited amount of retirement money, or a professional society deciding on its priorities, I have worked to structure and communicate the financial impact of decisions within the mission of a number of organizations to make decisions that were both strategic and values based.
I have been a SIOP member since I started graduate school at UIUC in 2002. My advisor, Fritz Drasgow, modeled a commitment to SIOP as important and meaningful. As a 25-year member of SIOP and a program director for an I-O psychology PhD program, I am deeply invested in the future of SIOP. If elected to the role of Financial Officer/Secretary, I promise to help the SIOP Executive Board wisely and intentionally pursue our mission through its financial decision-making and communication about those choices.
Gerald F. "Jay" Goodwin
Biography
I am honored to be nominated for SIOP’s Financial Officer. I retired from federal service last year with 20+ years at the U.S. Army Research Institute (ARI). During my career there, I served in both executive leadership and financial leadership positions. The last 6 years of my career there were in executive positions as chief scientist and then director. Prior to that, I served in significant leadership roles as a research unit chief and as ARI’s head of the Program & Budget Office. While my professional life has given me a variety of experiences relevant to this position, experiences in my personal life may be even more relevant as I have volunteered as the treasurer (and a board member) for a local nonprofit organization for more than 20 years. Within our I-O community, I have been a member of SIOP for more than 25 years and have volunteered for SIOP as a member and later chair of the Scientific Affairs Committee (now the Research Committee). I currently serve SIOP on both the editorial board of the Professional Practice Series and the Government Relations Advocacy Team.
Statement
SIOP is financially very healthy, with a substantial operating budget and healthy reserve accounts. My professional and personal experiences working with budgets, expenditures, and investments large and small give me an excellent mix of skills and perspective to manage the SIOP finances on behalf of the membership and executive board. In multiple roles, I was responsible for the planning and execution of a federal budget of approximately $45M. As a nonprofit treasurer I planned and managed both an operating budget (approximately $400k currently) and reserve accounts (approximately $2M) in a position and role very similar to SIOP’s financial officer. I have worked extensively with a central accounting and bookkeeping staff, auditors, investment advisors, and (of course) lawyers to ensure that every dollar was well spent and accounted for, and the overall financial health of the organization remained solid both for the short term and long term. SIOP’s Financial Officer/Secretary is both the budgetary advisor and a voting member of the executive board, and the financial and executive experience I have accrued over the last 25 years will help me serve you. If you entrust me to be SIOP’s Financial Officer/Secreatary, I will bring all of the knowledge (and hopefully wisdom) from these experiences to work for our society.
Liberty J. Munson
Biography
Liberty Munson, PhD, is a SIOP Fellow and director of Psychometrics for Microsoft Global Skilling, where she leads psychometric work for large-scale certification and skills-validation programs. Her work focuses on applying rigorous measurement principles while exploring how technology, including AI, is changing what, how, and when we assess skills.
Liberty has volunteered with SIOP for more than 25 years, beginning with the Training and Education Committee and program reviewing. Her SIOP service has included leadership of the Placement Center, Workshop Committee, Media Subcommittee, External Relations Committee, and Program Special Sessions, as well as service on the Fellowship Selection Committee, Credentialing Task Force, and other committees and task forces. Most recently, she served six years on SIOP’s Executive Board as Communications Portfolio Officer.
Beyond SIOP, Liberty has extensive governance experience across the assessment and credentialing community. She has served on the boards of the Association of Test Publishers, IT Certification Council, Credential Engine, Green Building Certification Institute, and Performance Testing Council, among others.
Throughout her career and volunteer service, Liberty has been driven by curiosity, a willingness to challenge how things have traditionally been done, and a commitment to giving back to the professional communities that have given so much to her.
Statement
I have spent more than 25 years volunteering with SIOP because I believe deeply in this community and in what I-O psychology contributes to the world of work. I have also seen SIOP evolve considerably during that time. Today, we face another period of significant change as technology, AI, new ways of working, and changing member expectations challenge us to think differently about how SIOP delivers value and remains strong for the future.
If elected Financial Officer/Secretary, my priority would be thoughtful stewardship in service of SIOP’s future.
Financial stewardship is about more than managing a budget. It means making deliberate choices about where we invest, understanding the tradeoffs those choices require, and ensuring that our resources support the things that matter most to members. In my professional role, I manage the psychometric budget and work with program teams to optimize spending while continuing to innovate and maintain quality. I have also served on the financial committees of other boards on which I have had the pleasure of serving.
I would bring that same mindset to SIOP: Protect what is working, ask hard questions about what is not, and be willing to invest in new approaches when they can create greater value for members.
SIOP has given me an extraordinary professional community. I would be honored to help ensure it remains financially strong, relevant, and ready for whatever comes next.
