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Raquel Asencio

Raquel Asencio is currently a Senior People Analytics Researcher at Block, where she leads strategic research initiatives to enhance individual, team, and organizational effectiveness. She joined Block in 2023 after serving as a People Analytics Researcher at Meta and, prior to that, as a tenure-track Professor of Management at Purdue University. Raquel’s applied research spans the employee lifecycle and focuses on translating complex…


Brandon Smith

Brandon Smith, Ph.D., is a Senior Manager of Talent Development at Penske Transportation Solutions, where he leads a team responsible for designing, executing, and evaluating director-level leadership development initiatives across the organization. Brandon’s professional experience spans multiple sectors, including consulting, healthcare, federal government, and the military. His primary focus areas center around leadership development strategy…


Yimin He

I will accept Ph.D. students for Fall 2026. Yimin He completed her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Texas A&M University in May 2020. After her Ph.D., she worked as a senior research assistant at Oregon Health & Science University. She earned her M.S. degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Texas A&M University and her bachelor's degree in Psychology and Economics from Peking University in 2015. Her research…


Elizabeth Duggan

Dr. Elizabeth Duggan is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, and the Director of Professional Development and Faculty Engagement for the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care at the University of Alabama Birmingham.    Dr. Duggan attended medical school at the University of Viginia, completed her internship at Duke University Medical School and her residency and fellowship at the Hospital of the University of…


Veronica Vargas

Veronica is Director of Organizational Effectiveness at Cox Communications, specializing in engagement, survey design, feedback and listening methodologies, organizational performance measurement and analytics, culture change, learning evaluation, ROI analysis, process improvement, and research. She joined Cox in November of 2023. Prior to her position at Cox, she worked at UPS for 19 years, joining UPS in 2005 as a Corporate Organizational…


Darah Okeke

Darah Okeke, Esq. is the Founder & President of EPIQ Consulting, a Black-owned enterprise that provides diversity, equity and inclusion advisory services for businesses, as well as employment negotiation and compensation navigation services for individuals. As a senior leader and corporate counsel with nearly 15 years of experience, Darah has practiced employment law with a special focus on equal employment opportunity, anti-discrimination/…


Rob Stilson

Rob is a Manger of People Analytics at PwC on the Workforce Transformation team. Prior to working for PwC, Rob was a Sr. Human Capital Analyst with Lockheed Martin on the Employee Experience & Engagement team specializing in Employee Life Cycle Analytics and qualitative and quantitative Survey Analysis. Before joining Lockheed Martin, he was the Director, Research and Test Development for TalentQuest, providing test and simulation creation…


Val Markos

As founder of Vmark Consulting, Val Markos works with leaders to be the best they can be. His decades of experience within large companies working in leadership development, coupled with his educational background in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, uniquely qualify him for the work he does. Val consults in leadership development, focusing on leadership assessment and feedback, coaching, succession planning, executive selection, and…


Matthew Harrison

Matthew S. Harrison, PhD currently works at Cox Automotive as Vice President of Talent, Learning & Culture. In this role he focuses on leading the design, development and deployment of innovative ways to enhance and improve team member performance--creating a sustaining culture focused on delivering results through passion, collaboration and performance and inclusion. He leads delivery in the areas of: talent and performance management,…


Neil Morelli

Neil Morelli, Ph.D., is the Chief I-O Psychologist at Codility, a technical hiring platform for companies such as Microsoft, Tesla, and Paypal to evaluate the engineering skills of their job candidates. At Codility, Dr. Morelli specializes in validating and creating effective hiring processes through technology-enabled talent assessment. Before joining Codility, Dr. Morelli was the VP of Product at HighMatch, an Atlanta-based pre-hire assessment…
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