James Longabaugh, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

As Director of our consulting team and an I-O psychologist, I have a proven track record of guiding teams and leaders of small to Fortune 50 companies to deliver impactful HR solutions across hundreds of organizations and a diverse gamete of industries. My expertise in employee engagement surveys and strategic employee listening programs, advanced analytics, pre-employment assessments, competency modeling, leadership assessment, and coaching empowers and enables me to support organizations in optimizing and realizing their workforce potential.

Within the School of Psychology, Family, and Community, and in the Industrial-Organizational Psychology graduate program, I have taught topical seminar courses for Project Management, and currently for Survey Design to MA and PhD students.

Greater Seattle Area

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Frisco, Tx

Serve as a trusted adviser to Fortune 500 organizations and support their strategic business goals by designing pre-employment assessment and selection programs for selecting their unfair share of high quality candidates, enhance engagement and enrichen the work experience of their employees, develop the next generation of leaders in a digitally transforming world, and provide insights for retaining top talent through workforce science and analytics. Working with organizations across multiple human capital and business initiatives, leverage workforce analytics to combine multiple sources of data, such as people and business metrics, to discover meaningful insight and develop recommendations to drive results.

Bellevue, Wa

Providing organizational consulting services for pre-employment assessment and selection, recruitment and sourcing strategies, team and leadership development, career coaching, formal mentoring programs, and organizational efficiency. Example projects:- Validation of assessment and selection program for predicting job performance of 616 new hires over 5 years for a national exercise equipment manufacturer. As a result, found extensive validity evidence for their selection process, resulting in higher performing employees that were less likely to voluntarily leave the organization.- Reviewed and evaluated 7 tests of general mental ability for a country in the Middle East for use as a benchmarking model, providing guidance for them to create and implement a test of GMA that could be used for selection across all of their civil service jobs in the government. - Performed factor analyses for the creation of a technical manual to assess item loadings of a custom developed selection instrument comprised of 16 core psychological personality traits and 17 complex work-oriented attributes. Managed and analyzed a multifaceted database consisting of 132,000 test takers, resulting in evidence supporting the factor structure of the instrument, as well as other psychometric information.

Sammamish, Wa

Responsible for full life cycle recruitment of C-Level candidates and down through technical positions. Trained and mentored junior recruiters and support staff on the basics and advanced techniques of the sourcing and recruitment process. Build, manage, qualify, and maintain a sustainable stream of candidates for fulfilling open requisitions with clients. Successfully completed 95% of retained searches, and managed to hold a 90% candidate retention rate. Constantly created and adapted to new avenues for increasing company revenue, as well as marketing for through various mediums.Consistently exceeded the client’s expectations of service by following high standards of operation and offering innovative, strategic, and creative solutions to fulfill staffing needs while also providing organizational consulting to further their success. Communication and strong interpersonal skills were key to developing business partnerships and understanding client needs to develop strategies for meeting their needs.

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

Master, Industrial Organizational Psychology

Activities and Societies: Member of a research team analyzing effects of mentor functions in formal and informal mentoring dyads.

B.S., Psychology

Activities and Societies: Psi Chi, Psychology Club