Harrison Assessments™ - About Us

Harrison Assessments Int'l Ltd.,
7c Sun House,
90 Connaught Rd.,
Central Hong Kong
Phone: (852) 3589-6969
Fax: (852) 3583-1180
Email Harrison Assessments

Harrison Assessments’ technical offices are located in Central Hong Kong with staff and distribution offices in 25 countries around the world.

The company focuses on providing the most trusted and accurate employee assessment tools in the industry. The tools help managers throughout the entire HR process, helping companies become more productive and efficient, leading to increased profitability.

Harrison Assessments’ tools include solutions to:

• Automate the recruitment process
• Hire the best employees
• Develop employee success
• Retain top talent

Harrison Assessments stands apart from all other assessment companies. Based on over 20 years of research from around the globe, the company’s solutions are rooted in a deep understanding of human resources and psychology. This, coupled with the company’s exceptional human resource technology and unique proprietary Paradox Technologies, allows Harrison Assessments to offer predictive solutions that cannot be matched by other assessment companies.

Founder

Harrison Assessments was founded in 1990 with a single vision and purpose – to help companies optimize their human capital by leveraging their deep understanding of human resources and psychology.

Dan Harrison, PhD, (CEO) has 30 years of experience and a diverse background in Mathematics, Personality Theory, Counseling Psychology, Human Potential Psychology, and Organizational Psychology. He is the creator and developer of the Harrison methodologies including the Paradox Technology.

Ava Harrison (President) has 35 years of experience in Communication Trainings and Seminars. She is the developer of the Dyad Communication Format which has been used extensively world-wide for developing human potential. She is available for advanced interpretation training for the expert Harrison Assessment reports.

Global Team

Harrison Assessments is fortunate to have a wide variety of talented people working together throughout the world. Each offers extensive expertise in the HA system as well as other specific areas of expertise. Here are just a few of our global talent team.

John Bower
John Bower, MA in engineering from Cambridge University. John has 16 years experience in staff development and recruitment. John is a regional coordinator and senior consultant with specialized expertise in human potential development.

Kevin Tan
Kevin Tan, BA in Accounting and Finance - Kevin has 15 years of experience in competency assessment, selection, recruitment, and performance management. Kevin is a regional coordinator and senior consultant.

John Suermondt
John is a regional coordinator and senior consultant with 17 years experience in suitability assessment and job analysis.

Phillip Christman
Phillip Christman, MA in Organization Management - Phillip is a regional coordinator and senior consultant. He has 12 years of experience training consultants in the Harrison Assessment methodologies, teambuilding, leadership training, recruitment, job assessment and performance assessment.

Ann David
Ann David, BA Sociology and Linguistics and Graduate Diploma in Human Resources Management. Ann has over 20 years experience in recruitment, human resource consulting, job assessment, training and development.

Susan Heybl
Susan Heybl-MBA, is a HR Consultant, with 18 years of experience and specializes in assessment tools and techniques, corporate training and development planning; competency modeling; 360 degree feedback systems and succession planning. Susan has been using the Harrison Assessment in her consulting practice for 12 years and provides monthly Accreditation Training around the U.S.

Jim Finkelstein
Jim Finkelstein, MBA in Organization Behavior and Development and BA in Psychology and Economics. Jim has 30+ years of consulting and corporate experience. Jim has been a partner of a Big Five Firm, a CEO of a professional services firm, a corporate executive for Fortune 500 companies. He is now an entrepreneur with his current company.

Peter J Karlsson
Peter J Karlsson, Certified in Human Resources Management from eCornell University in USA. 20 years experience in coaching and personal development. He is a weekly columnist in China Daily, Shanghai Daily and Shanghai Star Business Journal. Peter is a regional coordinator and senior consultant.

Felix Wiesner
Felix has 10 years experience in senior management positions in international companies like ABB or Deloitte & Touche. There he served as BU Director, Business Development Manager, CFO and CPO. He is currently a regional coordinator and senior consult focusing on HR consultancy and issues arising with mergers & acquisitions.

Corie Luz
Corie Luz, MA Has 25 years experience in training, assessment and job analysis. Corie is a senior consultant with exceptional talent for training.

Galen Wood
Galen is a senior consultant, counselor, facilitator and project manager with a breadth and depth of experience spanning 20 years of consulting to small, entrepreneurial and Fortune 500 organizations, as well as coaching individuals to maximize their natural potential. Her focus is to address organizational issues of selection, retention, performance management and team development.

Godofredo Lanuza
Gods Lanuza, MA in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, has over 27 years of accomplishments in human resource and organization development. He has consulted for various organizations including entrepreneurial family corporations and Fortune 500 companies in the Asia-Pacific and North American regions.

Joseph D. Rei
Joseph D. Rei, Ph.D. holds his undergraduate degree in psychology and graduate degrees in counseling and higher education administration. He is also a graduate of Harvard’s Higher Education Management Development Program. "My vision for our clients is to help them build sustainable competitive success through the full engagement and development of the people that make up the organization."

Warren L. Nickell Jr
Warren Nickell, BA has 35 years experience in Organizational assessment, human research management,15 years experience with IBM including Personal Development, Product Strategies, and Organizational Development. Nick is a regional coordinator and senior consultant.

Oliver Lim
Oliver Lim, BA in Business Administration, 10 years experience in training and executive development. He is a senior consultant.

Anne Sandberg
Anne Sandberg, MA - Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Anne's background includes over 20 years of experience in the Human Resources field specializing in employment selection, job analysis, test design, 360 degree feedback, training design and training delivery.

June Kitto
June has a Graduate Certificate in Management and a Diploma in Education with 18 years of experience in human resource management, recruitment, coaching and career counselling. June is a senior consultant.

Leslie McDonald
Leslie McDonald, BA. Leslie specializes in selection and retention consulting services, and corporate outplacement. She has more than 25 years of human resource development experience including: recruitment, employee relations, training and development, succession planning, and career counselling. Leslie is a senior consultant.

Susanne Devich
Susanne Devich, MSW is a senior consultant who focuses on aligning leaders with the strategic plan. For the past 25 years she has utilized assessment information for Organizational Change such as reorganizing sales department and reducing turnover while maintaining sales targets. Her most recent focus is that of the coaches' coach, with an emphasis on the selection and development of managers, so that they in turn can develop their people.

Don Dobie
Don has 30 years experience in Career Counselling and recruitment. He is a senior consultant.

Andrew O'Connell

Andrew has been working with Harrison Assessments since 1990 in the capacity of product design and HR consulting. He has extensive experience in system design for recruitment, staff development and career planning. He has designed systems for over 300 organizations in Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia, South Africa and Europe.

Dra. Endang Retno Wardhani (psi) - Dhani
Dhani, Ph.D has 15 years of experience in counselling, organizational development, team development, coaching and assessment.

Marilu Mayuga
Marilu Mayuga, MA Candidate - Marilu has over 25 years of experience in the delivery of strategic human resource management and organization development services. She has worked with various organizations including Fortune 500 companies. She coaches individuals to realize their talents and skills and has assisted organizations through many transitions, helping them bring about successful, sustained large-scale change. Marilu is a regional coordinator and senior consultant.

Rosemary Urbon
Rosemary Urbon, EMBA, FRCSA has over 20 years experience in recruitment and selection and is an accredited workplace assessor and trainer. She provides human resource, coaching and mentoring services to both individual’s and organizations alike and is committed to the development of the individual. She has been a past tutor to the Recruitment Consulting Services Association of Australia and is now a senior consultant.

Betsy Pickren, M.Ed., PCC
Betsy Pickren is a Professional Certified Coach with over 25 years of experience in leadership development, organization development and training. She focuses on leadership coaching, talent management and creating coaching cultures.

Jane Franz
Jane has 28 years experience in human resource management and coaching. She is a senior consultant.

Alan Hoffmanner
Alan has held executive positions in nearly all functional areas at 3 Fortune 100 companies including American Express, General Dynamics and United Technologies. In addition, he has 7 years experience leading Leadership development programs and and assessment services. Alan holds degrees in Economics and Systems Analysis, as well as a Masters from Columbia's Graduate School of Business. Alan is a Senior Consultant.

Brent D. Ross
Brent is a certified public accountant with 30 years experience providing consulting services to CEO’s and senior executive teams to help them develop a culture that will support their business initiatives to achieve greater business results.

Bruce McDonald
Bruce is a senior consultant with 20 years of experience in leadership and people development.

Pamela (Truax) Stambaugh
Pamela (Truax) Stambaugh is a senior consultant that focuses on strategic management and executive coaching. Pamela holds an MBA and has over 20 years' experience in strategic interventions and executive coaching. Pamela has co-authored two business books and has worked with senior executives on all continents except Antarctica.

Fran Whittingham
Fran is a senior consultant with a degree in Human Resource Development and Education. She holds internationally recognized Coaching credentials, Fran has 10 years experience specializing in outplacement and career development.

James W. (Jim) Hunt, CMC
Jim is a senior consultant and Certified Management Consultant.

Lynn Jones
Lynn Jones, BA Corporate Communication - Elon University. Lynn has 9 years of Recruiting experience in the health care, consumer products and financial services industries in the North Eastern United States. She is a Harrison Assessment consultant, executive coach and facilitates team building workshops.

Ken Zeigler
Ken Zeigler has been a successful Executive Coach and Business Counselor for over 20 years. Ken is committed to help companies to develop best hiring practices, creating effective national sales teams, offering team leadership seminars, career realignments and succession planning.

Barbara Spector
Barbara Spector, a graduate of Boston University has been a Business Consultant, Corporate Trainer and Master Business Coach for the past 27 years. She has served as VP of Sales and Marketing at a Major Research Institute where she trained clients in selling and sales management skills. She brings a vast array of Human Resource skills to her Human Resources Consulting firm.

Teddy Tannenbaum
Teddy Tannenbaum, B.A. has been a HA consultant for 10 years. He has been a Management consultant in the field of executive leadership and strategic planning with 20 years of experience in helping corporations, organizations, teams and individuals to definedesired outcomes and build strategies to achieve those outcomes.

Anna Miller
Anna Miller is an accomplished Organizational Development Consultant, Trainer, Coach and Author. For the last 15 years she has worked on achieving high performance and learning agility for many clients across a broad spectrum of industries, disciplines and professions

Peggy L. Soldner
Peggy L. Soldner has a Master’s in Science, Executive Leadership. Peggy is a creative people focused leader with over 20 years of global executive, sales, human resources, operations and general management experience for Fortune 100 companies in the pharmaceutical industry.

Brian Kenney
Brian Kenney is a Human Capital Management consultant and executive coach specializing in organizational performance management with an emphasis on the design, implementation, and delivery of strategic talent development programs. Brian has received industry awards for thought leadership and innovation in the field of employee development and performance management.