Jan Harbaugh, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Thames Ditton, Surrey, Gb

Served as the lead consultant for large-scale, complex talent assessment projects across the employee life cycle; coached and developed consultants who designed and delivered talent assessment solutions and services.• Developed, validated, and coached on implementation of enterprise and functional competency models to provide a foundational framework for HR processes.• Led projects with hundreds of employees and multiple internal and contract assessors to evaluate talent pools within client organizations and provide individual and aggregate reporting to drive individual development and identification of workforce priorities and decisions. • Managed team of technical consultants, providing insights and guidance on their professional development and on the work they delivered for clients.• Coached mid- and senior-level leaders in client organizations, facilitating their personal growth.

Consult with clients on developing and implementing assessment solutions for selection, development, and training purposes. Partner with industry-leading consulting firms to deliver on clients' selection and assessment needs.

Arlington, Va, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Served as enterprise expert on job analysis and selection tool validation; drove use of job analysis data as foundation for talent management decisions and practices.• Led foundational research that successfully supported enterprise talent assessment strategy by conducting job analysis activities for 3K+ roles enterprise-wide.• Created assessment validation strategy and conducted validation research, ensuring selection assessments were predictive, legally defensible and used appropriately.• Established recommendations for how functional competencies were defined and used across enterprise, establishing consistent process and providing verbiage to attract, select, and retain talent for specialized roles.• Led RFI/RFP processes to select new vendors, leading to implementation of new selection assessments that better identified candidates’ likelihood to succeed in each position.• Wrote and implemented interview guide questions and rating scales, allowing hiring teams to ask questions related to job and differentiate among candidates.• Conducted adverse impact and pass rate analysis on quarterly basis, ensuring assessments were legally compliant.• Facilitated assessment center feedback sessions with leaders, delivering results and guiding leaders on most appropriate next steps.

Provided selection and assessment consulting services to clients, managing accounts with multiple projects. Led, coached, and developed a team of technical and non-technical professionals. Created, supported, and delivered practice’s first assessment center offering.• Managed content-oriented and criterion-related validation studies that provided support for use of assessments when evaluating candidates.• Developed assessment center exercises and evaluated mid- and upper-level leaders, identifying competencies and providing summaries of leaders’ strengths and developmental opportunities.• Coordinated 360° feedback survey administration and reporting, allowing HR teams and leaders to understand individuals’ strengths and developmental opportunities.• Trained assessors in structured interview techniques, ensuring interviews would be administered consistently.• Led business development efforts and represented Selection and Assessment practice during sales presentations, showcasing capabilities that led to business growth.

Delivered competency and test development and validation consulting services to clients.• Created competency models used to describe jobs and built individual assessment tools (e.g., situational judgment inventories, ability tests, structured interviews, and biographical inventories), enabling accurate evaluation of candidate skills and abilities against those needed for available positions.• Coached assessors in structured interview and assessment techniques, allowing clients’ employees to evaluate candidates in consistent manner.• Interviewed subject matter experts at executive, supervisory, and first-line levels, obtaining job analysis information needed to develop competency models and assessment tools.

Supported consultant research to meet clients’ selection and assessment needs.• Facilitated job analysis focus groups and designed and administered subject matter expert surveys, gathering information needed to fully understand jobs.• Provided interviewing and assessment services for clients’ selection programs, evaluating candidates and providing recommendations regarding how well candidates’ skill sets matched those needed for jobs.• Analyzed project data using SPSS, enabling results to be used to evaluate selection alternatives.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Industrial And Organizational Psychology

Master’S Degree, Industrial And Organizational Psychology

Bachelor’S Degree, Psychology

Bachelor’S Degree, Mathematics