Session Index -- Pittsburgh conference October 15 - 18, 2002

General Sessions
Session Title Speaker/s
Role Profiling and Assessment as an Organisational Management Tool John Mahoney-Phillips
UBS
Enhancing Leadership Effectiveness Within Organizations: Strategies for Growing High-Potential Talent Ben Dowell
Bristol-Myers Squibb

Morgan McCall Jr.
University of So. California

William Byham
Development Dimensions International
An Overview and Update of Employment Legal Issues Jim Sharf
Sharf and Associates
Concurrent Sessions
Administration Track
Panel: Who's Qualified to Train Assessors ? Facilitator
Billie Hale
Assessment Center Services
Roundtable: What Keeps You Awake at Night ? Facilitator
Gregory Smith
Bayer
Application Track  
Assessment Centers for Program Evaluation: Assessing Student Academic Achievement Lizabeth Barclay and Kenneth York
Oakland University
Exploration of Best Practices in Assessment Center Feedback Carl Eidson Jr.
Wilson Learning

Robert Goldsmith
Development of an Assessment Center for Project Managers Ann Gowdey
UTC

George Klemp
Cambria Consulting
Assessment of Complex Consultative Sales Performance Ann Howard and John Metzger
Development Dimensions International
Does It Work in Asia? Indonesia's Experience with Assessment Center Methodology Vina G. Pendit and Sintawati Putri
PT. Daya Dimensi Indonesia
Beyond Simulations Track  
Practical Issues in Developing and Administering Brief Situational Assessments Evan Sinar
Development Dimensions International
New Findings in the Learning Potential Assessment Christoph Obermann
Obermann & Schiel
Forced Rankings and Development Planning Julie Murphy and Mark Nye
Heinz USA
Global Track  
The Use and Effectiveness of Assessment Centers Chizuko Kanaya
Management Service Center (MSC)
Opportunities for Assessment Centers in the Chinese Market Feng Li
Talent Shanghai Co., Ltd.
Research Track  
Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Leadership Assessment: Practical Implications for Content, Construct and Criterion Validation in Assessment Centers Anuradha Chawla
University of Guelph
Reactions to Dual-Purpose Assessment Center Feedback: What Does It Take to Get Participants to Buy Into and Actually Do Something with Their Feedback? Jeffrey Kudisch and Cara Lundquist
University of Southern Mississippi
The Search for Assessment Center Construct Validity Continues: Examining the Relationship Between AC Final Dimension Ratings and External Measures of Cognitive Ability and Personality Jeffrey Kudisch
University of Southern Mississippi
Assessment Centers as Tests Bob Lovler
and Mark Rose
Wilson Learning
Structured Interviews and the Assessment Center: Issues of Construct and Criterion-Related Validity Julie McCarthy
University of Toronto
Is Personality Related to Assessment Center Performance? That Depends on How Old You Are Mitchell Rothstein
University of Western Ontario
Talent Management Track  
Peer and Self-Assessment Center Ann Gowdey
UTC

Carol Bowen
CLB Associates
So You Want to Be a Leader Karalee Piels
Eastman Kodak Company

Scott Erker
Development Dimensions International
The Proof is in the Pudding Gregory Smith
Bayer
Managing Acceleration Pools: From Identification Through Development Allan Foss & Harvette Dixon
PPG

John DeSantis
Development Dimensions International
Using Assessment Centers to Assess Current and Future Potential Yolan Williams
Verizon

Glenn Mehltretter
PeopleFit
Technology Track  
Applying Technical Advances in Assessment Centers Warren Bobrow
The Context Group

Michelle Schulz
Southern California Edison
Applications of Automated Text Analysis Technology John Ford
Steven Burnkrant
Rosemary Miller
Alix Roberts
Henry Thibodeaux
US Office of Personnel Management
The Use of Technology in Assessment Center Methods Bob Lovler
Wilson Learning

Robert Goldsmith
On-Line Recruitment and Assessment Centres for Graduate Recruitment into a Global Financial Services Firm (UBS AG) John Mahoney-Phillips and Neeha Khurana, UBS
A Digital Portfolio to Support Learning & Development William Rickards
Alverno College
Automating the Assessment Experience: The Latest Chapter Audrey Smith and Douglas Reynolds
Development Dimensions International
Do You Need Dimensions? Dimensions Limited or Unlimited Joseph Thoresen
Cornerstone Human Resource Systems

George Thornton
Colorado State University