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JOHN D. ARNOLD,
Ph.D.
The approaches chosen by Polaris reflect the years of experience and research of its founder,
Dr. John Arnold. John has over 20 years of providing consulting services to leading companies. Prior to founding
Polaris in 2003, John was a senior vice president in the Human Resources Consulting Group of Aon Consulting, where
he directed the U.S. consulting practice and provided account management services to a number of high-visibility
national and international clients.
John Arnold has over 20 years of consulting experience in the areas of personnel selection and
classification, assessment center design and development, and organizational research. Having directed numerous
projects with a U.S., as well as international scope, Dr. Arnold is a recognized expert by many of the Fortune 500.
Of particular significance is his work in the redesign of salaried and hourly assessment systems for the automotive
“Big Three” and the direction of multiple large-scale consortium studies. As one example, the largest of these
studies involved the coordination of a nationwide consortium of 63 companies to develop and validate assessment
systems for use throughout the insurance and financial services industry.
Dr. Arnold has specialized in providing entry-level hiring systems to companies with large
populations of front-line employees. Taco Bell and Pizza Hut are only two of the many companies serviced in this
arena. John has also provided extensive pro bono services in the not-for-profit sector and he continues to provide
free and reduced-cost services to the “not-for profit” sector as an important part of his ongoing professional (and
personal) commitment.
Dr. Arnold holds a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Bowling Green State
University. His graduate education focused on issues involving personnel selection and assessment, as well as the
measurement of employee attitudes, motivation and abilities. John is an active member of the American Psychological
Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the Society for Human Resource Management.
Among his many contributions to the professional field, he has served as the President of the Michigan Association of
Industrial/Organizational Psychologists.
Dr. Arnold has published and presented a number of professional papers, including publication in
the Journal of Applied Psychology and presentations at the national conferences of the American Psychological
Association and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
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NEAL SCHMITT,
Ph.D.
Dr. Schmitt brings a variety of experiences in selection research to Polaris. He has been Professor of Psychology for over 35 years at Michigan State University where he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in personnel selection, psychological measurement and Organizational Psychology.
During that time he has also conducted research and worked on projects for a wide variety of organizations, both private and public. He developed and evaluated assessment centers for the selection of high school principals for the National Association of Secondary School Principals.
Jointly with Dr. Elaine Pulakos, he developed and validated entry level procedures for the selection of Special Agents for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and has worked with the Alabama and Virginia state police on similar projects. For Ford Motor Company, he developed simulations used to select clerical personnel and validated procedures used to select skilled craftspeople. In other projects, he has developed and validated selection procedures for manufacturing personnel, supervisors, and clerical or administrative staff. Most recently, his work supported by the College Board has involved the identification of college student potential using non cognitive instruments including biographical data and situational judgment measures.
Neal Schmitt obtained his Ph. D. from Purdue University in 1972 in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and is currently University Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Michigan State University. He was editor of Journal of Applied Psychology from 1988-1994 and has served on ten editorial boards. In 1987-88, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. He has received the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology's Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award (1999) and its Distinguished Contributions Award (1998) and served as the Society's President in 1989-90. In 2007-08, he served as the President of the Division of Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation of the American Psychological Association.
He has received the Heneman Career Achievement Award from the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management, 2000 and the Career Achievement Award from the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management, 2007.
He has coauthored three textbooks, Staffing Organizations with Ben Schneider, Research Methods in Human Resource Management with Richard Klimoski, Personnel Selection with David Chan, co-edited Personnel Selection in Organizations with Walter Borman and Measurement and Data Analysis with Fritz Drasgow and published over 200 articles and book chapters. He is editor of a forthcoming volume to be published by Oxford University Press titled Handbook of Assessment and Selection. His current research centers on the effectiveness of organizations’ selection procedures and the outcomes of these procedures, particularly as they relate to subgroup employment and applicant reactions and behavior.
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BRAD A. CHAMBERS,
Ph.D.
Dr. Chambers recently joined
Polaris as a Senior Vice President in charge of the firm's
operations. Prior to joining Polaris, Dr. Chambers spent nearly 10 years
developing valid, legally defensible selection systems for some of
the world’s leading organizations (e.g., McDonald’s, Bank of
America, 3M, Caterpillar, Ecolab, Kellogg, Target, Union Pacific
Railroad, Internal Revenue Service) and providing related consulting services in areas such as skills assessment, job analysis, employee survey
research, leadership assessment and development, and competency
modeling.
Dr. Chambers has worked with clients in many
industries, including healthcare, railroad, manufacturing, mining,
restaurant, financial services, and the federal government. He has
worked with a broad variety of positions, including executive,
manager, supervisor, team leader, team member, customer service
representative, manufacturing production, manufacturing apprentice,
and manufacturing skilled trades, as well as civilian and enlisted
personnel in the federal government and military. His experience
includes conducting advanced statistical analyses and working
closely with client organizations undergoing OFCCP audits and
reviews, and other legal matters.
Dr. Chambers holds a B.S. in Psychology from
Wright State University, where he graduated summa cum laude. In
addition, he earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from Michigan State
University in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. He has published
his work in multiple research journals, and has presented numerous
research studies at regional and national conferences.
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ABE REESE
Abe Reese is the founder and
president of Aspex Solutions, and Polaris Senior Vice President in
charge of Information Technology. A software engineer by training,
Abe has been responsible for the development of many of Aspex
Solutions' processes and systems as well as the principal development of
its flagship product, AppliTrack HR Files. Currently, he oversees the daily
operations of Aspex Solutions including financial planning and
management, development and continuous improvement of the customer
support team, system analysis and architecture of the AppliTrack
HR Files
product as well as providing the overall leadership and business
goals of Aspex Solutions.
As Senior Vice President in charge of Information Technology at
Polaris, Abe oversees the firm's online testing platform and related
databases. Abe works to ensure that the firm's systems and tools are
innovative, user friendly, and reliable.
Prior to Aspex Solutions and Polaris, Abe was a senior programmer for
United Stationers, a leading office supply and distribution firm.
His formal education is from Northern Illinois University where he
graduated with his Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science. In
addition, he was a founding member of the Making Managers into
Leaders (MMIL) Institute and is a qualified Web Solutions Microsoft
Partner.
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