In December 2025, SIOP Historian Zhenyu Yuan interviewed SIOP Fellow Nancy Tippins, former SIOP president and current president of the SIOP Foundation, for the SIOP Living History series. Launched in 2013, the series expands SIOP’s institutional and field-related knowledge by capturing insights from prominent I-O psychology educators, researchers, and practitioners.
The interview recording is now available.
Tippins is a Principal of the Nancy T. Tippins Group, LLC, where she brings more than 40 years of experience to the company. Her firm creates strategies related to work force planning, sourcing and recruiting, job analysis, employee selection, succession planning, executive assessment, and employee and leadership development. Much of her current work in the area of tests and assessments focuses on evaluating programs for legal risks, including concerns regarding validity, adverse impact, record keeping, consistency in administration, and uses of test information.
Active in professional affairs, Tippins has a long-standing involvement with SIOP, serving as President in 2000-2001. In addition to being a SIOP Fellow, she is a fellow of Quantitative and Qualitative Methods (Division 5 of the APA), the American Psychological Association (APA), and the American Psychological Society (APS) and is an active participant in several private industry research groups.
The brainchild of Paul Levy and David B. Baker, the SIOP Living History interview series was begun under Historian Kevin Mahoney in 2013. Previous interviewees include David P. Campbell, Paul W. Thayer, Frank L. Schmidt, Sheldon Zedeck, Edwin A. Locke and Gary P. Latham, Benjamin Schneider, Neal Schmitt, Milton Hakel, and Virginia Schein. Recordings of these interviews are kept as artifacts of the living history of I-O psychology and can be found in the SIOP Living History playlist on YouTube.
To suggest someone for the SIOP Living History series, please contact Jen Baker at jbaker@siop.org.
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