Past Luncheon Presentations

Ricci v. DeStefano: 3-Alarm or False Alarm?
Bryan Baldwin, California Department of Justice

Adverse Impact Analyses Done Right: Straight Talk for Practitioners
Shana Larrucea, MA, Biddle Consulting Group, Inc

The Dynamics of Panel Consensus Discussions
Debra Ford, Portland State University 

Utility of an Assessment Center for Promotion of Police Sergeants
Michael Potemra, PhD, Potemra Consulting 

Performance-Based Hiring – Are You Flipping a Coin for Talent?
Dr. Maynard Brusman

Cognitive Ability Testing: An Exploration of Background and Controversy
Kamilah Holloway, California State Personnel Board

Background Checks and Social Networking Sites: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Jared Callahan, PI, Employment Screening Resources (ESR)

Selection in a Changing World: What will we be doing, and who will do it?
Bryan Baldwin, California Department of Justice

Emotional Intelligence: Research on the Relevance for the Personnel Testing Field
Ryan Platt, California State Personnel Board

Freedom from the Ties that Bind (Being Sued Can Be a Good Thing)
Karen Coffee, IPMA-CP, California Prison Health Care Services

Situational Judgment Tests:  A Testing Format That Is Almost Too Good To Be True!
Mike Willihnganz, County of Napa

Online Testing: An Investigation into Online Testing Applications in the Public Sector
Howard Fortson, Jason Schaefer, and Clinton Kelly, CPS Human Resource Services

Survey Construction: Implementation and Interpretation (Lessons Learned)
Dr. Dale Glaser, Glaser Consulting

Differential Item Functioning: What is it? How to test for it? What to do with it and how that affects adverse impact
Heather Whiteman, Biddle Consulting Group

Current trends in online self-certified assessments: Tradeoffs between validity and expediency
Joe Doane, California Department of Justice

Successful Employment Branding & Recruitment Advertising
Andrew Gardiner, ADVANCE Recruitment Solutions (ARS)

Will Competency Models Fit Your Organization?
Kathleen Grace, M.B.A., Grace Consulting

Fostering Partnerships with Your Stakeholders to Hire and Retain the Best
Jeanne Makiney, Development Dimensions International

Statistical Methods of Assessing Adverse Impact: Moving beyond the 80% Rule
Jeff Kane, Ph.D., Biddle Consulting Group

Polishing the Basics of Sound Testing and Selection: A Look at the State of the Profession and Best Practices
Dr. Howard Fortson, CPS Human Resource Services and Dr. Chris Wright, Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University

Assessment/Testing for Supervisory and Management Jobs
Dennis Joiner, Dennis A. Joiner & Associates

Straight Talk and Practical Advice on the ADA and FEHA and their Impact on Hiring and Training
Shelley Spilberg, POST

The HR Modernization Project in California State Government
Michael Strazzo, California State Personnel Board

Work-Sample and Trainability Tests: Less adverse impact...but are they worth the cost?
Jim Kuthy, Biddle Consulting Group

Developing a Winning Recruitment Program
Merle Switzer, Switzer Associates

Using Personality Testing for High Performance Selection, Placement, and Promotion
John H. Eggers, Ph.D., CEO & Founder of Proclivity LLD  

Catching Up With the Times: Who is an “Internet Applicant” and Why Do We Need to Know?
Ines Vargas Fraenkel, Lead Attorney, San Francisco Office of Citizen Complaints

Validation of Employment Tests in the Public Sector
Bruce Topp, Ph.D., Manager of Police Examinations, Department of Human Resources, City and County of San Francisco

Merit Trumps Seniority - All in the Name of a Fair Selection Process
Elise S. Rose, Chief Counsel of the California State Personnel Board

The U.S. Department of Labor's new take on adverse impact: Using the Mantel-Haenszel Statistic and Logistic Regression to analyze adverse impact in your hiring and testing practices
Dan Biddle, Ph.D, CEO, Biddle Consulting Group

Assessing Leadership Competencies in Public Service
William Chiat, Organization and Employee Development Specialist and Consultant

Competency Modeling at Los Angeles Unified School District
Rod Freudenberg, Ph.D., Assistant Director Personnel Services, Los Angeles Unified School District

The Building Blocks of Biodata
Lisa M. Kobe Cross, Ph.D., CPS Human Resource Services

Civil Service Reform Project
Philip Ginsburg, Director, Department of Human Resources, City and County of San Francisco

Paige v. CHP
Michael Davis, Assistant Chief, California Highway Patrol Personnel Management Division.