Hogan Assessments will present at the 40th SIOP annual conference in Denver, Colorado, on April 2 to April 5. We are so excited to participate in 31 different panels, posters, seminars, sessions, and symposia at the annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Plus, as a platinum sponsor, we’ll be at booth 100 throughout the conference. Please stop by to say hello (and check out our giveaways).
Here’s your complete guide to finding Hogan Assessments at SIOP 2025.
Note: Presenters and contributors are listed alphabetically. Times refer to MDT/GMT-6. Locations refer to the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado.
Thursday, April 3, 2025
One Size Does Not Fit All: Success Metrics and Skill-Based Hiring
Jaclyn Menendez, PhD | 8:00 a.m. | 701
Many organizations have implemented skill-based hiring and development practices, yet not enough is shared regarding defining success of such programs. This session will feature IO practitioners sharing insights on implementing skill-based practices, managing change, and measuring success through key metrics, such as time to fill, and more innovative metrics, such as adoption.
Boss Moves: Women at Work—Breaking Barriers, Making Waves, and Shaping the Future
Jaclyn Menendez, PhD | 1:00 p.m. | 403/404
The purpose of this panel discussion is to explore the evolving role of women in the workplace, drawing on the personal stories and experiences of our distinguished panelists working in the field. This session will delve into the historical challenges women have faced, the current landscape of gender equity, and future considerations for woman leaders, particularly considering advancements such as artificial intelligence and shifting workplace dynamics.
What Current Data Say About Leadership Skills in the Future of Work
Yichen (Tony) Cao, PhD | 1:00 p.m. | 401/402
This panel from leading consultancies will discuss insights from their current datasets about the changing importance of leadership skills in the future of work. The goal is to share early applied findings and contribute to the understanding of what successful leadership will look like in the future of work.
Who’s in Charge Here? Personality-Based Leadership Emergence and Effectiveness
Nicole Dickie, MA; Robert Hogan, PhD; Ryne Sherman, PhD; Chase Winterberg, PhD | 1:00 p.m. | 304
Identifying individual differences that uniquely contribute to leadership expectations and outcomes across contexts promises practical insights for organizations, leaders, and aspiring leaders. The papers in this symposium contribute to the leadership literature by uncovering personality characteristics that shape leader expectations, emergence, and effectiveness in different contexts.
Job Analytic Comparisons of Short-Haul and Long-Haul Truck Drivers
Deidre Hall, MS; Mark Shoemaker, MA; Cody Warren, MA | 1:00 p.m. | Mile High Ballroom
This study used data-driven best practices to identify the most critical personality traits and competencies for short-haul and long-haul truck drivers. With data from a midwestern transportation company, authors found that several characteristics were rated similarly across both jobs, but there were distinctions related to interpersonal and goal orientation.
How to Produce on Productivity: An IO Psychologist’s Sharpest Tool
Yichen (Tony) Cao, PhD | 4:00 p.m. | 403/404
This panel discussion will allow accomplished and varied backgrounds of IO psychologists to speak to how they keep productivity as the crux in selling their services, either internally or externally. The panel seeks to enhance and highlight the importance of showcasing ROI on one’s work with the direct metric of productivity as the winning assessment.
Coaches Gone Wild? Executive Coaching in an Unregulated Environment
Emilie Seyfang, MA | 5:00 p.m. | 203
Panelists will discuss ethical considerations surrounding navigating the self-regulated coaching industry. This session is designed for IO practitioners already in or with a desire to enter the executive coaching field, as well as researchers and anyone with a responsibility to oversee leadership development programs.
Friday, April 4, 2025
Beyond Borders and Birthdates: The Truth About Generational Personality Myths
Alise Dabdoub, PhD | 9:00 a.m. | Mile High Ballroom
This study examines generational differences in personality for global workers. Findings challenge common stereotypes about generational cohorts and suggest that organizations should prioritize individual capabilities over generational assumptions, fostering more inclusive workplace cultures.
SIOP Intelligence on AI: Legal, Practice, Science, and Ethics Updates
Chase Winterberg, PhD | 2:00 p.m. | 304
As a continuation of the popular series SIOP Intelligence on AI, this session reunites experts from academia, internal and external consulting, law, and vendors to synthesize current and upcoming legal and regulatory requirements, integrate these changes to existing guidance, and engage in a candid discussion around artificial intelligence in employment settings. Following a state of the union address, representatives from their respective fields will briefly cover key considerations, and then the chair will facilitate discussion based on preplanned questions and audience input.
GenAI-Assisted Scoring of Narrative Information in Assessments: Lessons Learned
Weiwen Nie, PhD | 2:00 p.m. | 203
The recent advancement of generative AI (genAI) technologies has introduced more opportunities of using genAI to assist with the scoring of narrative information to help enhance efficiency. This symposium highlights methods and lessons learned in the research and practices of applying genAI to assist with the scoring of narrative content in various types of assessments, including structured interviews and business simulations.
Generational Differences Real and Imagined: Implications of Today’s Leaders
Ryne Sherman, PhD | 2:00 p.m. | Seminar 6
The goals of the session will be to review the science behind generations and generational differences, present why the science is flawed, discuss the implications for using generational thinking in the workplace, and provide attendees with conceptually and empirically supported alternatives to generational frameworks. The session will help attendees to explore and apply alternatives to generational thinking that can be used to improve work, workers, and the workplace, as well as to guide organizational leaders.
Great Minds Score Alike? Examining Human Versus ChatGPT Scoring on Resumes
Matt Lemming, MA; Nadine Maliakkal, PhD; Weiwen Nie, PhD | 5:00 p.m. | Mile High Ballroom
Authors compared human scoring on applicant resumes for an internship in industrial-organizational psychology to two sets of large language model (LLM)–generated scores. They found agreement between human and LLM scores varied depending on resume dimension, human and LLM overall resume scores were highly correlated, and resume cutoff scores resulted in different cumulative percentages of applicants “failing” across the three approaches, with scoring generated by chain-of-thought prompts performing slightly more like human scoring all around.
The Power of Psychological Safety in Asking for Help: A Personality Perspective
Deidre Hall, MS; Jessica McDuffie, PhD | 5:00 p.m. | Mile High Ballroom
Authors examined the mediating role of psychological safety in the relationship between personality and autonomous and avoidance help-seeking behaviors. Results indicate psychological safety mediates the relationship between personality’s dark side moving away cluster and autonomous help seeking and avoidance of seeking help.
Challenging Gender Stereotypes: Executive Leadership Personality and Performance
Alise Dabdoub, PhD; Anne-Marie Paiement, PhD; Jerod White, PhD | 5:00 p.m. | Mile High Ballroom
This study examines gender differences in personality, values, and behaviors among executives, with a focus on how these factors relate to leadership performance. Authors use performance data to investigate whether personality, values, competencies, or leadership dimensions predict leader performance differently for men and women executives.
Executive Presence: Personality Is the X-Factor!
Simón Castillo, MA; Matt Lemming, MA | 5:00 p.m. | Mile High Ballroom
Conducting a competency mapping and using synthetic meta-analyses of job components, authors investigated personality relationships with executive presence related competencies. They provide practical implications and discuss areas for future research regarding personality’s impact on what drives a leader’s executive presence.
Digital Mindset: Through the Lens of Personality
Janika Koelblin, MA; Matt Lemming, MA | 5:00 p.m. | Mile High Ballroom
Conducting a competency alignment and mapping using synthetic meta-analyses of job components, authors investigated personality relationships with competencies related to digital mindset. They provide practical implications and discuss areas for future research regarding personality’s impact on what drives a leader’s digital mindset.
Remote Working: The Role of Personality in Predicting Performance
Janika Koelblin, MA; Matt Lemming, MA | 5:00 p.m. | Mile High Ballroom
Authors conducted a competency alignment, mapping, and used synthetic meta-analyses of job components to investigate personality relationships with remote working competencies. They provide practical implications and discuss areas for future research concerning personality’s impact on predicting remote work effectiveness.
Suite Disposition: Identifying Personality Profiles in Executive Leaders
Matt Lemming, MA; Nadine Maliakkal, PhD; Jerod White, PhD | 5:00 p.m. | Mile High Ballroom
Authors conducted latent profile analyses on bright-side personality, dark-side personality, and value assessment scores from an archived dataset of more than 3,500 executive leaders. Results indicated a two-profile solution for bright-side personality, a two-profile solution for dark-side personality, and a three-profile solution for values.
Political Skill, Personality, and Occupational Success
Michael Boudreaux, PhD | 5:00 p.m. | Mile High Ballroom
The goals of this research were to examine the personality correlates of political skill and to develop and provide initial validation evidence for a personality-based measure of the construct. Correlations with leadership effectiveness indicated that politically skilled individuals engage with others in an approachable and authentic way to drive a strategic agenda.
Personality Dynamics in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Societal Perspective
Jerod White, PhD | 5:00 p.m. | Mile High Ballroom
This study examined population-level changes in personality during the COVID-19 pandemic. A 79-week time series analysis across the pandemic’s declaration showed negligible changes, indicating overall stability; this highlights the robustness of personality characteristics, even during global crises.
Emotionally Stable: Personality Score Stability Over Time and Across Emotions
Alise Dabdoub, PhD | 5:00 p.m. | Mile High Ballroom
This study investigated the impact of state affect on personality assessment scores over time and across emotions. Results provide evidence to support the notion that personality assessments are robust to the effects of transient emotional states and time, providing confidence in their use for organizational purposes.
Beyond the Interface: Advanced LLM Practices in IO Research
Weiwen Nie, PhD | 5:00 p.m. | 505
This panel session aims to share practices of conducting LLM research and operations in scalable and reproducible ways. The panelists will showcase how industrial-organizational psychologists can use LLMs in their research beyond manually testing individual prompts in a user interface or making individual API calls.
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Understanding and Controlling AI-Assisted Faking
Weiwen Nie, PhD; Ryne Sherman, PhD | 8:00 a.m. | 201
Faking on preemployment assessments has been exacerbated by the rise of generative AI (genAI) and freely available tools such as ChatGPT. The five studies in this symposium explore the gravity of, detection methods and tools for, and reactions to AI-assisted faking.
Deep Into That Darkness Peering: Dark Personality and Counterproductive Work Behavior
Chase Winterberg, PhD | 9:30 a.m. | 601
Counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs) have negative implications for organizations and members of organizations. The papers in this symposium extend the literature by dissecting the relationships among various models of dark personality, contextual factors, and CWBs.
Personality and Leading for Creativity: Looking Through the Reputation Lens
Robert Hogan, PhD; Nadine Maliakkal, PhD | 9:30 a.m. | 403/404
Creativity is vital for businesses to survive, thrive, and compete. This symposium applies a reputation lens to unpack these questions regarding creative leadership, offering theoretical, practical, methodological, and future research implications.
Anticipating Destructive Leadership: Predictors, Correlates, and Related Factors
Jaclyn Menendez, PhD | 9:30 a.m. | 703
Destructive leaders wield detrimental influence over individuals, teams, and organizations, with well-documented, adverse effects on attitudes and culture. Collectively, this group of papers seeks to expand our understanding of destructive leadership by providing insight into the predictors, correlates, and related factors that influence destructive leader behavior.
Beyond Feel-Good Feedback: Cracking the Code on Measuring Coaching Impact
Paige Brown, MA | 10:30 a.m. | 605
This panel discussion will explore effective strategies for measuring workplace coaching success, featuring six expert practitioners who utilize diverse tools and methodologies. Evaluating coaching’s impact on organizational outcomes is crucial. The panel will address trends, best practices, and challenges in measuring coaching effectiveness.
Wellness at the Heart of Healthcare: Trends in Organizational Well-Being Data
Matt Lemming, MA; Jessie McClure, MA | 10:30 a.m. | 203
Employee well-being in the healthcare industry is a continually growing area of crucial research, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic. This symposium details the individual personality differences, 2023 and 2024 healthcare industry trends, and organizational data representing healthcare workers and their levels of stress, burnout, risk, and potential interventions.
Staying on Track: Contextualizing and Mitigating Leadership Derailers
Kelsey Klausing, MS; Ryne Sherman, PhD | 12:30 p.m. | 701
This panel will discuss using individual derailers in leadership development, specifically exploring contextual factors that impact interpretation of derailers, as well as mitigation tactics that can be used through coaching and development efforts. Panelists will share their experiences and discuss interpretation considerations based on profiles of derailers, as well as new research directions in this space.
The Paradox of Being Humble but Standing Out: Ambiguities of Humble Leadership
John Horton, MS; Nadine Maliakkal, PhD; Jessica McDuffie, PhD | 2:00 p.m. | 302/303
This panel will explore how different organizations balance and recognize humility in leadership, addressing challenges of leaders who are too high or low on humility. They will also discuss how they develop humility in leaders and the outcomes of those leadership development efforts on teams and organizations.
Steering Through Change: Unpacking Leadership Agility and Leadership Effectiveness
Jaclyn Menendez, PhD | 3:00 p.m. | 302/303
Survival in today’s technological revolution requires organizational agility, which means being able to pivot strategically and operationally. Collectively, this group of papers seeks to expand understanding of leadership agility by presenting results that help practitioners operationalize agile leadership and better understand the impact that leadership agility has on important outcomes.
See you soon at SIOP 2025 in Denver!