Assessment Technologies Group is proud to have assembled a team rich in talent and experience in the human-resources field. A science-based organization, we benefit from the leadership of doctoral-level industrial/organizational psychologists who have achieved industry-wide distinction in their fields.
Mr. Pollan has eighteen years of executive experience. After progressing through operations-management and human-resources positions with international food-industry corporations, he chose to take advantage of new entrepreneurial opportunities. For the past fifteen years he has led the implementation and development of successful services businesses.
Early in his business ventures, Mr. Pollan infused his companies with cutting-edge technology and state-of-the art personnel selection and development techniques. The clear advantages gained by marrying technology and assessment prompted him to establish Assessment Technologies Group in 1996. Under Mr. Pollan's leadership, ATG has grown rapidly, serving dozens of U.S. and international clients in a wide variety of industries. Mr. Pollan is enthusiastically committed to continuing to offer human-resources decision support that draws on the advances in technology and the best practices in industrial/organizational psychology.
Dr. Krieger is an industrial/organizational psychologist with over thirty years’ experience in assessment, career development and team building. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from Rutgers University in 1966 and is licensed to practice psychology in Florida and Pennsylvania. He has lifetime accreditation as a Senior Professional in Human Resources from the Personnel Accreditation Institute.
Dr. Krieger began consulting in 1969 with Psychological Consultants to Industry of Pittsburgh, and he has been consulting in Jacksonville since 1972. For almost two decades, Dr. Krieger headed his own firm, Humanalysis Systems, pioneering state-of-the-art assessment strategies. In 1990 he created the Human Resource Center and in 1992 launched People Development Technologies. After spending two years with national training responsibilities for Saville and Holdsworth, Ltd, he returned to consulting in Jacksonville, joining Assessment Technologies Group.
Dr. Krieger also has held faculty appointments prior to 1972 at Rutgers University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Duquesne University, Point Park College and The Pennsylvania State University. He was invited to University of North Florida in 1972 as a member of the charter faculty with responsibility for creating the organizational-behavior and industrial-psychology courses for both the M.B.A. program and the undergraduate curriculum. He retired in 1986 as professor and senior member of the Department of Psychology.
Dr. Krieger's publications include papers in the Journal of Social Psychology; the "Industrial Psychology" chapter in Fisher and Brodsky's 1978 book, Client Participation in Human Services; dozens of book reviews in Personnel Psychology; and the "Selecting Franchisees" chapter in the 1996 International Franchise Relations Handbook; and test reviews in the 2001 Fourteenth Mental Measurement Yearbook. Dr. Krieger is a frequent presenter at scholarly forums and also a popular speaker at meetings of professional associations and client organizations.
Dale F. Campbell is cofounder of FuturesLeaders—Executive Search in Higher Education of ATG. He has over nine years’ experience in executive-search support and development. His latest book, The Leadership Gap: Model Strategies for Executive Leadership Development, reports his research on the 21st Century Educational Leader Profile and earned him the 2003 Senior Scholar Award from the Council for the Study of Community Colleges.
Dr. Campbell's other national honors include the 2002 Outstanding Service to Community Colleges Award by the National Council of Instructional Administrators and the 2000 National Leadership Award by the Board of the American Association of Community Colleges. Among his publications are "Developing and Selecting Leaders for the 21st Century" and "Future Concerns—Key Values for Community Colleges" in Community College Journal. He is founder of the Community College Futures Assembly and Bellwether Awards. The assembly serves annually as an independent national policy forum to identify critical issues facing community colleges and since 1995 has recognized over 200 colleges for their model trend-setting programs.
Dr. Campbell also serves as professor and director of the Community College Leadership Consortium at the University of Florida. He was previously assistant commissioner for community and technical colleges at the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; assistant professor and coordinator of the Community College Education Program at North Carolina State University; dean of instruction, Wichita Falls for Vernon College (VRJC) in Texas; head of the Public and Support Services Department, Community College of the Air Force. He is also a past chair of the National Council of State Directors of Community Colleges and the National Council for Workforce Education.
Dr. Campbell holds a Ph.D. in educational administration from the University of Texas at Austin and has been honored as a Distinguished Graduate of the College of Education and the Community College Leadership Program.
With over 20 years' experience generating business results through a deep understanding of how people interact in the workplace, Chris brings a uniquely creative approach to business. Designing and delivering talent management and development solutions grounded in precise assessments are the core of Chris' work. Succession planning and leadership assessment and development solutions are his most sought after services. A practical innovator whose HR solutions produce measurable results in constantly changing markets, Chris has assisted businesses of all sizes at virtually every stage of growth, from Fortune 500 organizations to startup entrepreneurial firms. The multi- national consumer marketing clients Chris has assisted include The Coca-Cola Company, Burger King Corporation, and Bacardi, USA. Technology and Manufacturing industries have included MCI Telecommunications, BellSouth Corporation and Mueller Water Products, Inc. He has also worked extensively with healthcare and non-profit organizations. To accommodate his passion for learning, Chris lectures at the University of Miami and speaks frequently at executive roundtables and retreats.
Chris obtained his Ph.D. in I/O Psychology from Georgia Tech, serves on several non- profit boards and is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychologists.
Debra Robinson has experience as a senior executive, consultant, coach, and educator. She is Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at the University of Missouri-Rolla, leadership team member for the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara, and contract consultant with Harshman and Associates, Leadership Dialogues, and Assessment Technologies Group. She has developed programs, managed people and resources, led change initiatives and project teams, and worked with individuals and teams to maximize their effectiveness.
Dr. Robinson’s background includes more than 25 years of management and consulting experience. Most of her work has focused on developing talent and creating systems that maximize the use of talent. Some of her special strengths include coaching leaders through transitions, management and interpersonal skill development in science and technology, and executive assessments, development planning, and coaching for high potentials. Dr. Robinson speaks at national and international conferences and has publications on a variety of topics related to leadership development.
Dr. Robinson received her Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Education and Counseling Psychology from the University of Illinois in Champaign- Urbana. Her B.A. is in psychology from the University of Illinois in Springfield. Post doctoral training includes the Harvard Institute of Educational Management and the NTL Institute of Applied Behavioral Sciences Organizational Development program.
Dr. Robinson served as President of the Society of Consulting Psychology last year. She has previously served as Editor of the Consulting Psychologist, Chair of Public Interest, Chair of Membership Services, and Mid-winter Conference Program Chair. She belongs to the American College Personnel Association, Institute for Executive Development, International Coach Federation, National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, and the Society of Psychologists in Management.
Dr. Wise has extensive background in business as well as psychological assessment. He has started or managed 5 corporations, including managing a corporation through turnaround and merger to a publicly traded firm. He has been active in the Turnaround Management Association, and is a member of the Florida Psychological Association and the American Psychological Association.
Dr. Wise has an extensive understanding of strategic analysis and change management. He enjoys public speaking and has extensive background in debate and negotiation.
Dr. Wise obtained his Masters and Doctorate in psychology from Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne and has been a licensed psychologist since 1991. He founded Bee and Wise Psychological Testing Service in 1991 and received his certification in corporate consulting from Nova Southeastern University and has been a full time consultant since 1995. He received training in engineering cost analysis from Courtland Collier at the University of Florida. He served on the Board of Directors of Tempus Software with Dr. J. Brooks Brown for over a decade providing leadership and strategic analysis, while learning and coming to understand board functions.
Mr. Ilan Wolffberg is an American industrial psychologist and Gestalt therapist, residing in Kgs. Lyngby, near Copenhagen, Denmark.
After receiving his Masters Degree, Mr. Wolffberg taught psychology at Stevens Institute of Technology for 3 years. In 1971 he moved to Europe and established a freelance consultancy with activities in the Scandinavian countries, Great Britain, and Germany. From 1985 to 1990 Mr. Wolffberg worked as a consultant at the Industrial Psychology Department of the Danish Technological Institute. In 1990 He started his own company, Scandinavian Team Training (now WOLFFBERG Personnel Development, www.wolffberg.dk ), with teaching and training activities throughout Europe. Close ties to the USA are maintained through joint activities with ATG Assessment Technologies Group, Jacksonville Florida.
Mr. Wolffberg is a Gestalt therapist, trained and certified at the Nordisk Gestaltinstitut at Tik¿b, Denmark.
A large part of Mr. Wolffberg's work involves teaching and training managers and industrial project teams. Mr. Wolffberg has trained international teams in Denmark, Sweden, England, France, Germany, Spain, Greece, Belgium and Hungary. One of his particular specialties is the training of product development teams.
Dr. Gillespie is a senior consultant to ATG with over fifteen years of experience. She earned her Ph.D. in organizational communication and qualitative methodologies from the University of Colorado at Boulder and her M.A. in mass communication with a specialization in race and gender from the University of Denver. She specializes in complexity management, analyzing and improving the ways individuals successfully interact to create an organization and the effects of changing global and local standards on this interaction.
Dr. Gillespie works with clients to create and perform day-to-day organizational practices, policies and relationship-management styles that support employees at all levels as well as their customers. This includes facilitating decisions in which stakeholders must work across personal, professional, and/or cultural differences, team-building and one-on-one relationship management, developing talent performance in terms of organizational fit, relationship selling, conflict resolution, harnessing the power of company stories, and managing company talk. She is certified in career transition and development.
Dr. Gillespie has consulted for the Center for Excellence, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, to lower hospital costs by identifying and managing the unique needs and compliance risks of Medicaid patients; designed a media campaign that made a non-profit fund-raiser the second largest of its type in the Western United States; and worked as a transition consultant for the second-largest international outplacement firm. For five years, Dr. Gillespie instructed college students in team-building, leadership, organizational development, interpersonal communication and related topics. Her research examining the effects of medicine's move to a set of managerial principles is published in the Journal of Applied Communication Research and is taught in the primary textbook on qualitative health communication in classrooms across the nation.
