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Current Students
Yngvi Freyr Einarsson (M.A. student)
Yngvi's professional interests include performance management, incentives, feedback, and motivation.
Email contact: yngvi.f.einarsson@wmich.edu |
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Randall Hallman (M.A. student)
Randall is a first year student whose interests include Organizational Behavior Managment.
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Jeana Koerber (Ph.D. student)
Jeana's professional interests include the application of performance management and staff training in human service settings, focusing on individuals with developmental disabilities. She is currently working on her dissertation entitled "Implementation of a staff management system to increase consumer engagement in group homes." Jeana is also a senior graduate therapist for the Community Mental Health Psychological and Treatment Services (CMH/PATS) team.
Email contact: jeana.koerber@wmich.edu |
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Regan Last (M.A. student)
Regan's professional interests include performance management and behavioral systems analysis, particularly the influence of feedback and motivation. She is currently the I/O psychology program assistant.
Email contact: regan.w.last@wmich.edu |
Jessica Stanek (M.A. student)
Jessica's professional interests include behavioral systems analysis, performance management, and training development.
Email contact: jessica.a.stanek@wmich.edu |
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Jessica Urschel (Ph.D. student)
Jessica's current research interests include the effects of social comparison feedback and goal setting on employee satisfaction, stress, and performance. She is also a WMU instructor of record for undergraduate statistics (PSY 3000), a WMU teaching assistant for graduate-level statistics courses (PSY 6340, 6350, and 6360), and has process management consulting experience in health care, higher education, and local government. She is also employed as Project Manager for the Department of Educational Leadership, Research and Technology at WMU. She has been working on numerous grants and contracts regarding education policy issues since 2007. In this role, her focuses are on project management, data collection and data analysis.
Email contact: jessica.l.urschel@wmich.edu |
Sarah VanStelle (Ph.D. student)
Sarah’s professional interests include the application of behavioral techniques (OBM) to more traditional business programs including applications of training and leadership development. Currently, she is the PSY 4600 graduate assistant at WMU and is also an intern at The Kellogg Company in Battle Creek, MI where she works in Global Learning and Development.
Email contact: sarah.vanstelle@wmich.edu |
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Jerrad Yaw (M.A. student)
Jerrad Yaw is a first year student whose interests include Organizational Behavior Managment.
Email contact: jerrad.e.yaw@wmich.edu |
Former Students
Michael Blahnik (2011, M.A.)
Mike Blahnik is a consulting associate and project coordinator at Innovative Learning Group. Mike greatly enjoys getting to know people on a personal level to help understand what motivates their behavior at work. Using the core principles of behavioral science at ILG has already led him to some interesting discoveries. And Mike is looking forward to applying his skills to help ILG’s clients solve their human performance issues.
Website: Innovative Learning Group
Email contact: mblahnik09@hotmail.com |
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Tyler Weeks (2011, M.A.)
Tyler's professional interests include the application of Behavioral Systems Analysis to business environments, particularly small businesses and government agencies. Eventually Tyler would like to focus completely on reducing all forms of waste in all government endeavors.
Email contact: tyler.weeks@wmich.edu |
Allison Blake (2010, M.A.)
Allison Blake works as a Clinic Operations Analyst for The Emory Clinic in Atlanta and as a Knowledgebase Context Developer for MedAxiom. Allison's professional interests include performance management, behavioral safety, and the appllication of PM in the healthcare industry and national intelligence arena.
Email contact: ablake322@gmail.com |
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Melody Taylor (2010, M.A.)
Melody's professional interests include self management, performance management, teaching systems, and training development.
Email contact: melody.taylor7@gmail.com
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Ellen VandenBrink (2010, M.A.)
Ellen is a Business Analyst at Skanska, a multinational construction management company, working in Innovation. Her professional interests include systems analysis, behavior-based safety, and performance management.
Website: www.skanska.com
Email contact: ellen.k.vandenbrink@gmail.com
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Erika Holtz (2009, M.A.)
Erika Holtz is the Operations Manager at Keystone Behavioral Pediatrics in Jackson, FL. Her interests include performance management, systems analysis, and training.
Email Contact: erika@thetalent.us |
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Rhiannon Fante-Konwinski (2008, Ph.D.)
Rhiannon is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stephen F. Austin State University. She teaches various undergraduate and graduate courses. Her current interests include performance management, systems analysis, computer-based training, behavioral safety, and instructional design. In addition, she currently works for AME Learning as an instructional designer.
Website: SFA Psychology
Email contact: fanterm@sfasu.edu |
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Julie Slowiak (2008, Ph.D.)
Julie is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She teaches Experimental Design & Methodology and Organizational Psychology. Her current interests include performance and behavior management in the workplace, behavioral systems analysis, customer service improvement, feedback systems, electronic performance monitoring, pay systems, and factors that promote healthy behavior choices. She has experience as a customer service and performance management consultant within the healthcare industry.
Website: UMD Psychology Department
Email contact: jslowiak@d.umn.edu |
Wendy Jaehnig (2006, Ph.D.)
Wendy is currently employed as an e-Learning Development Specialist for Pfizer Global Manufacturing, US/Canada. Her professional interests include instructional technology and design as well as behavioral approaches to fitness and health.
Website: Pfizer
Email contact: Wendy.Jaehnig@pfizer.com |
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Katie Willerick (2006, M.A.)
Katie is a consultant at MedAxiom. Her interests lie in improving organizational performance with the use of Behavior Analysis, Lean and Six Sigma methodologies. Katie is a Green Belt in Six Sigma and has extensive training in Lean, which fit very well with her training in Behavior Analysis and I/O Psychology. Her major focus of interest is in the healthcare industry. She has facilitated the development of various process improvements in many healthcare areas including cardiology, radiology, emergency medicine, and many more. Katie is currently living in Dayton, OH with her husband.
Email contact: katiewillerick@yahoo.com |
Heather McGee (2004, Ph.D.)
Heather is an assistant professor of Psychology at Western Michigan University. Her interests lie in improving organizational performance through interventions based on comprehensive behavioral systems analysis. She has developed and implemented organizational performance solutions in a variety of industries and settings, including autism service providers, the pharmaceutical industry, education, and health and human services industries.
Website: WMU Psychology Department
Email contact: heather.mcgee@wmich.edu
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Barbara Bucklin (2000, Ph.D.)
Barbara is Director of Instructional Design for Ardent Learning, Inc., a company that delivers custom learning and performance improvement solutions to Fortune 300 companies in industries such as automotive, pharmaceutical, transportation, global consulting, and finance. She provides instructional design and performance improvement solutions to her clients as well as leading a team of professionals across offices in California, Michigan, and New York.
Website: Ardent Learning
Email contact: bbucklin@ardentlearning.com |
Judy Johnson (1997, Ph.D.)
Judy currently works as a consultant for CLG. She has worked with clients in a wide range of industries, including transportation, petrochemicals, telecommunications, financial services, technology, automotive, pharmaceuticals, engineering, consumer products, manufacturing, and retail services. She has helped organizations realize measurable improvements in customer satisfaction, compliance with regulatory requirements, and traditional performance indicators such as revenue growth, customer retention, and productivity.
Website: CLG
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Grainne Matthews (1997, Ph.D.)
Grainne is the Senior Project Manager with Quality Safety Edge, a company that specializes in the application of behavioral technology to employee driven safety and quality improvement efforts. Among the programs she's developed are innovative training, coaching, feedback, and reward systems for performance improvements.
Website: Quality Safety Edge
Email contact: Grainne@qualitysafetyedge.com |
Gordon Henry (1994, Ph.D.)
Gordon currently teaches psychology and business courses both online and face-to-face for several universities, as well as doing sport psychology consulting. He's also the racquetball coach at the University of Louisville and provides private racquetball lessons.
Website:SportDrHenry
Email contact: sportdrhenry@yahoo.com |
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Julie Pioch (1994, M.A.)
Julie Pioch is the County Extension Director for Van Buren County Michigan State University Extension (MSUE). Her educational programming contributions consist of leadership development for policy makers and non-profits, strategic planning, land use education, new farmer education, and other community and economic development activities.
She has also worked closely with local government to develop natural resource protection ordinances, implement sustainable land use policies and engage in community visioning processes.
Website: Van Buren County MSUE
Email contact: piochj@msu.edu |
Jeanne LaMere (1993, Ph.D.)
Jeanne is the Director of Curriculum Development for CompuTaught, a part of Cengage Learning, which delivers online professional education using methods based on the principles of behavior analysis. She manages a team of subject matter experts and instructional designers across the country who develop courses in a variety of professions, including real estate, appraisal, and home inspection.
Website: CompuTaught
Email contact: jeanne.lamere@cengage.com |
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Laura Methot (1993, M.A.)
Laura currently works as a consultant for CLG, where she helps leaders improve their business execution by understanding and applying behavioral science in their organizations. She has international experience as a consultant and coach to private-sector business and industry, healthcare organizations, and government agencies.
Website: CLG
Email contact: LMethot@clg.com |
Judy Agnew (1991, Ph.D.)
Dr. Agnew is VP and Sr. Consultant with Aubrey Daniels International. For over 15 years she has help clients use behavior analysis to make business improvements. Other professional activities include writing a book on Behavior Based Safety, numerous articles in the area of organizational behavior management, speaking at a variety of professional conferences, and serving on the editorial board for JOBM.
Website: Aubrey Daniels International
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Kirk L. Gillette (1991, M.A.)
Kirk founded a behavior analytic dog training organization in 1991. Gillette Obedience Training has since expanded to include a state-of-the-art dog and cat boarding facility in the Kalamazoo area. Kirk’s professional interests include organizational management, instructional design, behavior-based training and teaching technologies.
Website: Gillette Obedience Training & Boarding Kennels
Email contact: caninebehavior@chartermi.net
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Shezeen Oah (1990, Ph.D.)
Dr. Oah is a professor of psychology and the advisor of the industrial/organizational program at Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea. His research interests include behavior-based safety, performance management and community intervention. He has recently joined Quality Safety Edge and developed behavior-based safety systems for organizations in Korea.
Website: Chung-Ang University
Email contact: shezeen@cau.ac.kr, geneoah0211@yahoo.com |
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Brian Gribler (1987, M.A.)
Brian is a National Claims Training Manager for Foremost Insurance, a Farmers Group Company. He manages a team of 24 training professionals who support over 700 claim employees in 49 states. His team provides instruction for new and existing employees on a variety of topics related to handling claims for customers. The team also is proficient in conducting a performance analysis and implementing strategies to close performance gaps.
Website:Foremost Insurance, Farmers Insurance
Email contact: brian.gribler@foremost.com |
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