Ian performs document and materials production activities and provides administrative support to multiple Cambria practice areas. His responsibilities include interview scheduling for large-scale executive assessment projects; administering third-party assessment instruments; establishing project timelines; tracking project specifications, changes, and progress; convening project team meetings to ensure effective communications, timeline adherence, and issue resolution; and compiling assessment reports.
As Executive Assistant to Managing Partner, Ellen Kumata, Ian monitors, organizes, and prioritizes the day-to-day details of her activities. He manages Ellen’s calendar, monitors e-mail, books travel, prepares materials for business trips and meetings, maintains project files and sales opportunity records, and is an accessible point of contact for her clients, prospects, and colleagues.
Background
Additionally, drawing on his extensive software skills, Ian provides Level 1 technical support to staff on Cambria’s systems and applications, assists in website updates, and contributes to e-learning product development.
Education, Professional Activities
Ian graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a BA in Communications.
Recent Publications
The Positive Truth of Personality Tests
The streaming service, HBO Max, is featuring a new documentary, Persona: The Dark Truth Behind Personality Tests, that explores the underside of personality tests and how some companies have potentially, through biased algorithms, turned them into a system for prejudiced digital gatekeeping on a massive scale.
Pixar’s Soul Searching & Personality Profiles
It’s not every day that I find myself explaining psychological assessments to a four-year-old. Why dogs have noses and why you shouldn’t eat ice cream for breakfast, sure. But personality profiles? First, by way of context: as a father of two young girls, I have found Disney Plus to be a lifesaver during this pandemic. Disney Plus’s latest addition is the new movie, Soul, with which Pixar achieves the impossible again. They took abstract concepts like personality profiles and development journeys and brilliantly brought them to life with visuals and story, much like they did with emotions in the movie, Inside Out or with flavor in Ratatouille.