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Kelsey Klausing, MS, is the Practice Manager for Hogan’s Solutions Partners team. She is responsible for assisting in the growth, delivery, and support of Hogan’s partners in their journeys to leverage personality assessments in their talent management strategies. Kelsey plays a key role in delivering projects and driving continuous value in partner relationships and identifying new opportunities to implement assessments to enhance partners’ talent management services.

Prior to joining the Hogan family, she was the manager of people science and optimization at Macy’s Inc., where she led the research, design, and implementation of pre-hire assessment tools to identify the best external talent. Kelsey built and secured assessments, interview guides, case studies, and the like. She also conducted ongoing scientific analysis of tools to ensure effectiveness and minimize risk.

While serving as an external consultant with Performance Assessment Network (a PSI business) for five years, Kelsey helped hundreds of clients add a layer of science into the art of hiring and development. She led client-facing projects involving job analyses, competency modeling, structured interview guides, assessment recommendations, and validation studies. Partnering with dozens of assessment vendors in the industry, she maintained the catalog of offerings and ensured the accuracy of assessment overviews, reports, and versions.

She earned her master’s degree in industrial and organizational psychology from Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, where she researched diversity in the workplace and its impact on recruitment and employee engagement. She also holds a bachelor’s degree from Ball State University, where she majored in psychology and minored in interpersonal relationships and sociology.

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