Palmer Morrel-Samuels is president of the Workplace Research Foundation and CEO of Employee Motivation & Performance Assessment. He has worked for more than 25 years designing and analyzing surveys and assessments for large corporations, occasionally teaches research methodology (with Marc Zimmerman) through University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, and serves as an expert witness in discrimination cases that hinge on workplace assessments. He has been on the faculty at U of M’s business school, has written several articles on survey design for Harvard Business Review, and has testified before congress on the linkage between survey results and employee performance. He received an MA in research methodology from the University of Chicago, and an M. Phil. & Ph.D. in experimental social psychology from Columbia. Current research interests include proving causal linkages to non-statisticians, using pretest-posttest comparisons in quasi-experimental designs, measuring linkages between “soft” features of the corporate culture and “hard” performance metrics, designing computer interfaces, and enhancing the reliability, validity, and business utility of workplace assessments.

Contact: Palmer Morrel-Samuels, PhD

Phone: 734-433-0344

Fax: 734-433-0346

Mary Heumann is Executive Director of the Workplace Research Foundation. She has 17 years experience in the University of Michigan Neurology department. Ms. Heumann’s research responsibility was for patients (suffering neurodegenerative diseases or alcoholism), and normal volunteers in research involving Positron Emission Tomography (PET) of brain and heart, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, medication trails, sleep studies, and Neuropsychological evaluations. She also analyzed PET scan images, prepared photographic slides and data for national and international conferences, and was primary contact for research patients and their families. She wrote applications for federally funded research projects and for ethics review by the U of M’s Medical School Institutional Review Board (IRBMED). She prepared data for annual review by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, and other federal agencies. She speaks two foreign languages with a fair degree of fluency, and has considerable experience as a supervisor in a major national retail corporation.

Contact: Mary Heumann

Phone: 734-433-0344

Fax: 734-433-0346