Developing An Assessment Center For Project Managers
Presentation Objective: to share UTC’s experience in developing and running an assessment center for project managers. Topics will include:
- Making the business case
- Hurdles to developing a project manager competency model supported by seven distinctly different business divisions
- Project manager competencies
- Innovative assessment center design
Speaker
Ann Gowdey
Manager
Assessment & Development
United Technologies Corp.
Ann Gowdey has over 25 years experience in the fields of leadership and organization development. Currently, Ann is Manager of Assessment and Development for United Technologies Corporation, a Fortune 50 company with 150,000 employees engaged in high tech manufacturing worldwide.
Prior to joining UTC, Ann was principle of Ann Gowdey Consulting, a firm specializing in leadership and organization development and Assistant Vice President of Human Resources for Connecticut Mutual Life. She has designed and implemented innovative assessment practices in city, county and state government, financial services, human services, and manufacturing organizations.
Speaker
George Klemp, Jr., Ph.D.
Partner
Cambria Consulting
George is one of the principal developers of job competency assessment technology. A founding partner of Cambria Consulting, he has over 25 years of experience designing and implementing competency-based HR systems in Fortune 500 companies and specializes in performance management, succession planning, identifying and developing global leadership talent and organizational surveys. His clients include Alcoa, Credit Suisse First Boston, ExxonMobil, Fortis Financial, JPMorgan Chase, Pepsi-Cola, PPG Industries, and United Technologies. He is also a featured speaker at national conferences on advances in competency-based applications. George holds a BA in Psychology from Harvard College, an MA in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Yale University.
