Associates
The Team
Provided here are brief profiles of some of our associates. If you would be interested in joining us as an associate, please contact us via our information request page.
Chartered Occupational Psychologists
Debbie Hance
With 12 years' international consulting experience, Debbie has worked in both the private and public arenas, across a range of sectors including central and local government, professional services, transport and logistics, pharmaceuticals, law practices and financial services. She specialises in assessment, personal development, training, competency modelling, 360-degree feedback and performance management.
Being a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, she is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and is a Principal Member of the Association of Business Psychologists. She is qualified with the BPS to use a wide range of psychometric tests and has a particular interest in how tests can contribute to our understanding of the problems and opportunities associated with team and individual performance at work.
Hannah Azizollah
Hannah is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and has worked in the area for 25 years as both an internal consultant and as an external independent consultant.
She worked internally with The Post Office and then BT leading teams of psychologists providing selection and assessment methods to the organisations. This involved development of tests, exercises, appraisals, training others in the use of them, evaluating and validating as well as acting as an assessor much of this time. She later became an internal OD consultant helping Operational Managers bring about change in the way their people were operating.
She has been working independently for over 12 years working in the broad area of change assessment and development with individuals, teams and whole organisations.
She works with a range of private and public organisations which include NHS (Trusts and National Organisations), DWP, BT, National Air Traffic Services, BNFL, American Express, Daimler Chrysler, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Camelot, and Starwood Hotels.
Retail Performance Improvement Consultant
Helen Baron
Helen is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a Chartered Psychologist. She has published widely in the area of equal opportunities and psychometric issues and presents regularly in conferences in the UK and around the world. She has developed over 100 original tests, some bespoke for companies and others for test publishers’ portfolios These include measures of personality, motivation, competency and various facets of ability. Many use a traditional paper and pencil approach, but she has also created leading edge measures which take advantage of computer technology to provide dynamic tasks to measure reaction time, video clips to gauge responses to typical work situations or advanced psychometric manipulations to provide more accurate scoring. Many of the measures have broad application but some are tailored to specific jobs, such as air traffic controllers.
Helen specialises in the following areas:
- design and development of psychometric tests, including computer based
- implementation and audit of assessment processes
- guidance training on equal opportunities matters including fairness and adapting assessments for people with disabilities
- full Level A & B statements
- research projects in work psychology
- statistical analysis.
