Ryan Aguiar, Ph.D. (Abd) Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

- Served as a project leader or workstream leader on client projects (Engagement surveys, custom employee surveys, cultural audits). Primarily responsible for day-to-day client interactions, strategic planning, resource allocation, and consulting on client interventions.- Processed survey data and turned it into digestible insights for clients.- Presented survey results summaries to client leadership teams.- Presented training curriculum to client employee populations.- Contributed strategic messaging for RFPs.- Conducted client stakeholder interviews, focus groups, and action planning sessions.- Conducted teachbacks of academic topics from Industrial-Organizational Psychology program (Psychological Safety, Neuroscience of Change/Learning, Organizational Lifecycles).- Created consulting guides for topics like Change Management, Leveraging Strengths, and Survey/Reporting Design.- Leveraged and implemented new project management workflows.- Served as a Subject Matter Expert on client projects when appropriate.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

▪ Served as a consultant to the CEO on all matters related to the science governing workplace psychology. ▪ We emphasized that our organization was science-driven, and it was my responsibility to ensure that.▪ Served as a subject matter expert on leadership, training, team dynamics, and human factors for content development and company messaging.▪ Designed a personality indicator assessment with a live dashboard for coaching sessions.▪ Consolidated meaningful insights from data for client capstones and coaching sessions.▪ Conducted internal training on data literacy, topics in neuroscience, and I/O psychology.▪ Held organizational meetings about aligning values, operations, and goals.▪ Developed custom metrics for leadership behavioral assessments for clients.▪ Conducted periodic SWOT analyses to capitalize on competitive advantages in design.

Greater Chicago Area

▪ Designed experiential learning exercises with gamification elements to reinforce learning objectives for each one of the products in our portfolio.▪ Tailored the content of sessions and reinforcement tools to match the espoused values of the clients we worked with (including one of the largest airlines and credit card companies in the country).▪ Developed a pre/post assessment for measuring training efficacy.▪ Facilitated webinars and classroom sessions to teach a variety of concepts from psychological safety, neuroscience, and leadership models, as well as how to design training effectively.▪ Expanded all current products to include a virtual version we could conduct anywhere around the world.

Chicago, Illinois

▪ Assisted in recruiting efforts by screening candidates, coordinating interviews, and conducting interview debriefs with all of the interviewers.▪ Vetted potential employment assessment vendors, scrutinized methodologies, and presented my findings to the VP of HR.▪ Created and presented a new interviewer training course.▪ Conducted new hire and exit interviews, synthesized responses and presented aggregated data to stakeholders.▪ Assessed talent pools and created pipelines with local schools and coding boot camps.▪ Held recruiting seat for LinkedIn and StackOverflow recruiting efforts.▪ Assisted in establishing diversity compliance.

Greater Chicago Area

While going to school full-time for my Master's, I worked full-time at Mars doing the following:- Provided data integrity support to the North and Latin America regions of Mars Inc.- Performed internal audits to maintain data accuracy- Maintained associate access to databases- Ran reports and pivot tables of associate data- Ran mass updates for organizational restructuring- Worked with other regional key users around the world to update and maintain associate data- Performed manual tests for bot automation

Tampa, Fl

The ConnectWise Human Resources Administrator provides administrative support for the HRdepartment’s day-to-day functions and operations. Supporting the HR department includestasks such as assisting in recruitment efforts, scheduling interviews, updating/organizingemployee records and covering the front desk Office Manager duties as needed.- Assisted the Corporate Recruiter’s efforts, including scheduling interviews andcoordinating pre-employment testing- Assisted with onboarding efforts, including building new hire binders, making copiesand reordering new supplies as needed- Covered front desk Office Manager duties daily for lunch and as needed- Performed HR administrative tasks, such as scanning, filing of electronic documentsincluding contracts, employee paperwork, and confidential documents- Filed necessary hard copy documents- Provided information to colleagues by telephone, in written form, email or in-person- Assisted with maintaining current information in company applications and systems- Assisted with coordinating employee events, such as training, lunch-and-learns, open enrollment events and other employee events

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Worked a variety of jobs while in school including:Sales Associate - Party CityPark Operator - Busch Gardens Tampa BayTheater Crew - AMC TheatersCook - Mellow MushroomCook - Kosher Retirement CommunityContractor - The Reserves NetworkAdministrative Assistant - Agency for Healthcare Administration

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Industrial And Organizational Psychology

Master Of Arts - Ma, Industrial-Organizational Psychology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Psychology/ Sociology

Activities and Societies: Psi Chi Psychology Honor Society Membership 2017-2018 President of The Film Club at FSU 2017-2018BS.

International Baccalaureate Degree, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Band and Symphony