workplace and engagement researcher who uses data and people analytics to help leaders make more evidence-based decisions to make work awesome. His research focuses on the areas of employee engagement, performance management & feedback, employee recognition, employee selection, learning & program effectiveness, and the ROI of HR initiatives and program. He has served as both an internal and external consultant and researcher to organizations for over a decade. He is a hopeless Husker fan and a proud puppy parent of a Sheltie named Biscuit. His lovely wife, Amy, is also an Industrial-Organizational psychologist