PI Worldwide provides cutting-edge, scientifically validated solutions to our clients around the globe. To maintain our leadership position in this field, we maintain a Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), consisting of international experts in the fields of consulting, research design, quantitative methods, and industrial-organizational (I/O) psychology. By partnering with this group (as well as other academic researchers), PI Worldwide is well positioned to deliver solutions to our clients’ talent management challenges that are accurate, measurable, legally defensible, and have bottom-line business impact. SAB members provide PI Worldwide with academically rigorous, best-in-class counsel with regard to product development and validation, co-author technical reports and white papers, and collaborate with PI Worldwide in-house science staff, headed up by Todd Harris, Ph.D., on a variety of research projects.
Gwenith Fisher, Ph.D. – University of Michigan
Dr. Gwenith Fisher is a Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan and has worked in a research capacity for IBM in Armonk, NY. Dr. Fisher has more than 15 years of experience designing and implementing surveys, with expertise in survey research methods and analysis, psychological measurement, and the study of occupational health and well-being. She has provided services to a variety of organizations in which she designed and implemented talent management solutions.
Dr. Fisher has published more than 25 scientific articles and book chapters which have appeared in journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, and Handbooks related to employee well-being, occupational health, retirement, and cognitive aging. In addition to her primary research faculty role at the University of Michigan, she is an adjunct professor of psychology at the University of Detroit Mercy, and regularly presents research at national and international conferences.
Dr. Fisher received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.
Allison Tracy, Ph.D. – Wellesley College
Dr. Allison Tracy has over 15 years experience as a research scientist and methodologist in the social and behavioral sciences. She currently works as the staff methodologist at the Center for Women at Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA. In addition to her work with PI Worldwide, Dr. Tracy consults to various universities, research centers, and for-profit companies across the United States. These include ChildTrends in Washington, DC; McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School Affiliate; the Trauma Center at the Boston University School of Medicine; and Management Sciences for Health in Cambridge, MA.
Dr. Tracy received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Human Development and Family Studies, with a minor in Statistics, from Pennsylvania State University in 1998.