Shonna Waters, Phd Email & Phone Number

Arlington, Va, Us

Arlington, Va, Us

Fractional Insights is a research and advisory firm offering a one-of-a-kind Fractional Lab and pioneering a new approach to WorkTech success. Our Expert Network provides unparalleled access to diverse, high-caliber talent that is typically out of reach for most companies. By partnering with Fractional Insights, WorkTech companies on mission to make work better can gain a significant competitive edge and achieve unprecedented success. We do this by creating and using research and insights to strengthen the connection between a customer's pain, science on that pain, and the product promise; drawing a throughline from research for revenue by building market trust, authority, and accelerating sales cycles.Fractional Insights “helps the helpers” – the WorkTech companies improving the world of work.Discover how our science backed research and expert guidance can empower your team to demonstrate the importance and impact of your solutions, earn market trust, and achieve greater success with the power of a Fractional Lab. www.fractionalinsights.ai

Arlington, Va

Dedicated to helping organizations achieve their goals through modern evidence-based and human-centric practices. I’ll be providing expert consulting services to help organizations align their business strategy to their people strategy. I’m also offering executive and team coaching, advisory services, speaking, and thought leadership.www.drshonnawaters.com

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Designing and teaching a new course, “Coaching Skills for HR Professionals,” to students enrolled in the Master of Professional Studies Program in Human Resources. This course is intended to provide Human Resource (HR) Professionals with an understanding of the domain of coaching and learn skills relevant to HR roles. The course will incorporate lectures, group discussions, case studies, and experiential exercises.

College Park, Maryland, United States

Arlington, Va

BetterUp helps organizations build better leaders with evidence-based executive-level coaching for employees at all levels. I held founding and executive leadership roles across multiple functions including BetterUp Labs, Behavioral Science, Product Marketing, Strategic Partnerships & Alliances, and Executive Advisory. The “red thread” in my successive roles at BetterUp is using my expertise in behavioral science, technology, and business to help our customers solve their business challenges and help their employees thrive. Key achievements include: - Among the first 50 employees at BetterUp and the first Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, contributing to the company’s growth from $4M ARR to over $250M (50x). Supported the go-to-market organization as a leader, subject matter expert and executive sponsor on accounts, marketing events, and expert spokesperson (e.g., PR). - Built and scaled multiple functions including Behavioral Science/Solutions Consulting and Alliances and Partnerships. Contributed to business and product strategy related to professional services, strategic partnerships, research, product marketing, coach operations, analytics and data storytelling. - Cultural co-founder, serving on BetterUp’s Leadership Team, Coaching Excellence Steering Committee, Ethics Committee, Belonging @BetterUp, and the women's affinity group. Mentor employees cross-functionally, facilitator in BetterUp’s onboarding, hiring manager, and onboarding buddy.

Alexandria, Va

SHRM is among the world's largest professional associations, representing over 285,000 HR professionals globally. Led the transformation of SHRM’s Research Department from providing descriptive, survey research of SHRM members about the profession to advancing the profession through deep, rigorous research, customer engagement, and short, more visually appealing practitioner-oriented content to increase the use of science in practice. Led a multidisciplinary team and functions including survey research, library services, knowledge integration, competency research and content, and certification research. Directed, oversaw, and led SHRM’s research activities, including SHRM’s four core programs of research: Organizations & Strategy, Future of Work, HR Profession and HR Careers, and Talent Acquisition. Identified workplace research areas of relevance to HR, C-suite executives, and business leaders. Provided thought leadership (TL) and communicated results of research and outside HR research to SHRM's membership, staff, boards, academic community, and other national groups and organizations. Identified and built relationships with corporate and academic research partners, negotiated partnership terms and contracts. Developed and executed collaborative opportunities with SHRM Foundation and all SHRM affiliates.

Responsibilities include organizational assessment and consulting, as well as contributing to the design, development, validation, of high stakes personnel selection tests, coordinating the implementation of high stakes personnel selection systems, contributing to basic and applied research projects seeking to improve the measurement of critical personal characteristics, presenting research results at professional conferences and publish research results in professional journals, and collaborating with staff in other units on the entire range of services offered by the Office of Organizational Effectiveness and Workforce Research.

Teaching Reasearch methods & Statistics to HRD Masters students

Responsibilities included conducting job analyses; designing and developing assessments for selection, promotion, credentialing, performance evaluation, and career development; designing, implementing, and managing research projects; analyzing data; writing reports; and preparing and delivering presentations.

Responsibilities at HumRRO include project management, test development, validation, and support, statistical and other analysis of data, as well as study design, data collection and support.

Responsibilities included data collection, conducting literature reviews, developing selection tools (e.g., cognitive ability tests, declarative knowledge tests, personality measures, structured interviews, rating scales) and competency models, conducting data analyses, and facilitating training and SME workshops. Clients included the U.S. Army and Navy, Tennessee Highway Patrol, Sprint, Verizon, and American Express.

Under the supervision of Dr. Scott F. Hall, I worked in the molecular neurobiology branch at the National Institute of Drug Abuse Research (NIDA). I performed behavioral research with transgenic mice and conducted PCR.

Phd, Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Activities and Societies: I served on the currciulum committee on other groups within the psychology department concerned.

Certificate In Leadership Coaching, Leadership

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B.A., Psychology

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