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Dr. Morrel-Samuels received an MA in research methodology from the
University of Chicago, as well as an M. Phil. and a Ph.D. in
experimental social psychology from Columbia University. He has more
than 20 years of consulting experience designing and analyzing
assessments for large corporations, and has worked as a researcher or
faculty member at IBM, the University of Chicago, Yale, and the
University of Michigan Business School. He lectures nationally on
communication, survey design, and linkage analysis, and has written
articles for scientific publications such as The Journal of Experimental
Psychology, Behavioral Research Methods, The Journal of Personality
& Social Psychology, and Harvard Business Review. His first article on
survey design for HBR was published in February 2002, and his second
article for them (on web surveys) was published in the July 2003 issue.
Practical experience includes assessment services for GM, Sears, Disney,
and numerous other Fortune 500 companies. He is the author of several
patented employee assessments, has served as an expert witness on
several large EEO Disparate Impact lawsuits, and has provided a
scientifically valid statistical analysis of several million rows of data in
a data compilation consistent with FRE 803 (b), Frye, Daubert,
and Kumho. He has also testified as an expert witness for Congress on
employee motivation and performance assessment. He is currently
president and principal of EMPA, a company that designs customized
assessments, and (in conjunction with the University of Michigan)
conducts the National Benchmark Study® that annually sets workplace
standards and measures the causal linkage between employee
motivation and objective performance metrics. EMPA provides expert
witness and consulting services. |
