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Expert in Litigation Involving Surveys and Assessments in the Workplace & Employee Motivation and Performance
Available for your Consulting and Expert Witness Needs
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Primary Expertise Areas:
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employment expert
work sampling expert
automatic vision system expert
baselining expert
benchmark expert
benchmarking expert
competitive benchmarking expert
competitive intelligence expert
employee empowerment expert
employee protection expert
employee right-to-know law expert
human efficiency expert
human resources expert
industrial benchmarking expert
learning curve expert
market assessment expert
market trend expert
motivation expert
operations research expert
organizational behavior expert
organizational development expert
performance analysis expert
performance measurement expert
resource expert
self-directed work team expert
team building expert
work measurement (quantity) expert |
Expert received an MA in research methodology from the University of Chicago, as well as an M. Phil. and a Ph.D. in experimental social psychology from Columbia University. He has more than 20 years of consulting experience designing and analyzing assessments for large corporations, and has worked as a researcher or faculty member at IBM, the University of Chicago, Yale, and the University of Michigan Business School. He lectures nationally on communication, survey design, and linkage analysis, and has written articles for scientific publications such as The Journal of Experimental Psychology, Behavioral Research Methods, The Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, and Harvard Business Review. (His first HBR article was on the design of assessments in the workplace, and his second was on web-based surveys.) Practical experience includes assessment services for employees at companies such as GM, International Truck and Engine Corporation, EDS, Sprint, Blue Cross-Blue Shield, Sears, Disney, and numerous other Fortune 500 companies. He is the author of several patented employee assessments, and has been an expert resource for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal (where his company was recently featured). He has testified as an expert witness for Congress on employee motivation and performance assessment, and has assisted numerous legal firms with statistical analysis of very large datasets as well as litigation involving surveys and the impact of the corporate culture on performance. He is currently president of Expert's Firm, a company that designs customized assessments, and (in conjunction with the University of Michigan) conducts the National Benchmark StudyŽ that annually sets normative BenchmarksSM and measures the causal linkage between employee motivation and objective performance metrics. |
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organizational assessment expert
workplace design expert |
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Localities:
Expert may consult nationally and internationally, and is also local to the following cities: Detroit, Michigan; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Warren, Michigan; Flint, Michigan; Sterling Heights, Michigan; Lansing, Michigan; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Livonia, Michigan; Fort Wayne, Indiana; and Toledo, Ohio.
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1989
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PhD, MPhil
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Social Psychology
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Columbia University
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1980
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MA
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Research Methodology
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University of Chicago
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1976
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B.A.
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Creative Arts Psychotherapy
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Goddard College
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1998 to 2008
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(Undisclosed)
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CEO
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1991 to 1996
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University of Michigan
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CSMIL & School of Business
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Assistant Research Scientist & Adjunct Research Scientist
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1993 to 1999
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Univ. of Michigan
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Cognitive Science & Machine Intelligence Lab
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Assistant Research Scientist & Adjunct Research Scientist
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1997 to 1998
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University of Michigan Business School
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National Quality Research Center
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Assistant Research Scientist & Adjunct Research Scientist
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1987 to 1991
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University of Hawaii, Honolulu
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Kewalo Basin Laboratory
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Researcher
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1986 to 1987
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Watson Research Center, IBM
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Computer Science Department
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Research Assistant
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1981 to 1982
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Yale University
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Psychology Department
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Research Assistant
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1977 to 1979
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Henry Horner Children's Hospital
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Early Child Development Center
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Acting Director
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Associations/Societies
APA, APS, Psychonomic Society
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Professional Appointments
Chairmanship, Colloquium Committee, Department of Psychology, Columbia; International Schoolboy Fellowship, English Speaking Union, England;
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Awards/Recognition
Who's Who in Science and Engineering (second edition, 1994-1995); Scholarship, French Ministry of Education & Université de la Source, Orleans, France
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Publications and Patents
Over forty publications, presentations, and patents
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2002 to 2002
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US Border Patrol/INS
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Researcher/Social Scientist
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Performed study on illegal immigration into the US for INS
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He has testified as an expert witness for Congress on employee motivation and performance assessment, and has assisted numerous legal firms with litigation involving surveys and the impact of the corporate culture on performance.
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Practical experience includes assessment services for employees at companies such as GM, International Truck and Engine Corporation, EDS, Sprint, Blue Cross-Blue Shield, Sears, Disney, and numerous other Fortune 500 companies.
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Served as consultant (~20 years) responsible for designing & analyzing customized assessments
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Served as invited keynote speaker at national & international conferences
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Served as an expert witness in numerous cases involving discrimination and the analysis of statistical data
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As a member of the Intota consultant network,
Expert is a specialist who provides technical consulting to corporate, legal and government clients. Expert provides professional consulting as a Litigation Involving Surveys Consultant and Assessments in the Workplace & Employee Motivation Consultant and Performance Consultant. Expert may consult as an independent consultant or as a member of a consultancy, consulting company,
or consulting firm. Consultants service will be covered by a consulting contract.
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Served as the sole expert witness specializing in organizational psychology and, in that capacity, analyzed 4 million rows of production data from large assembly line in a case where 32 million dollars was at stake; my statistical analysis provided the only empirical evidence exonerating our side of liability. The case settled successfully out of court.
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Other Skills and Services
Testified to congress on the linkage between working conditions, employee motivation, and defect rate. I have also published several Harvard Business Review articles on workplace assessments, and have written several patents for inventions pertaining to assessments in the workplace.
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