Liz Sweigart

Liz Sweigart, PhD, MBA is a consulting psychologist, researcher, and builder working at the intersection of behavioral science, technology, and organizational transformation. A past President of the Society of Consulting Psychology (APA Division 13), she recently completed a non-resident postdoctoral fellowship in Human-Computer Interaction in the Socio-Technical Interaction Research (STIR) Lab in the Computer Science Department at Vanderbilt University. She is also a proud Rice University undergraduate alumna: Team Wiess forever!

Liz builds on more than 20 years of experience in global structuring and organizational transformation across Big Four consulting and investment banking, including serving as a Partner at PwC and working at Houlihan Lokey. This background informs her current work exploring how organizations adapt to rapid technological change.

She is a founding member of the And Other Stuff (AOS) collective, an open-source initiative focused on building technologies that expand human agency. Across her research, consulting, and building work, Liz focuses on how leaders and organizations redesign roles, reskill talent, and rethink collaboration as agentic AI increasingly augments—and reshapes—human expertise.

Nancy Tippins

Nancy Tippins is a Principal of the Nancy T. Tippins Group, LLC, where she brings more than 40 years of experience to the company.  Her firm creates strategies related to work force planning, sourcing and recruiting, job analysis, employee selection, succession planning, executive assessment, and employee and leadership development.  Much of her current work in the area of tests and assessments focuses on evaluating programs for legal risks, including concerns regarding validity, adverse impact, record keeping, consistency in administration, and uses of test information.

Throughout her career, Nancy has participated in the creation and revision of professional standards for tests and assessments, serving on the committees that revised the Principles for the Validation and Use of Personnel Selection Procedures for the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) in 1999 and co-chairing the committee that revised the Principles in 2018. She was also a member of the committee that revised the Standards for Educational and Psychological Tests for the AERA, APA, and NCME in 2014 and was a U.S. representative on the committee that revised the ISO 10667 International Assessment standards in 2011. 

Nancy has a long-standing involvement with the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology where she served as President. She currently is the President of the SIOP Foundation.  She is a fellow of SIOP (Division 14 of the APA), Quantitative and Qualitative Methods (Division 5 of the APA), the American Psychological Association (APA), and the American Psychological Society (APS) and is an active participant in several private industry research groups.  Nancy received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Tianjun Sun

Dr. Tianjun Sun is currently an Assistant Professor of Industrial-Organizational (IO) Psychology and Quantitative Methods at Rice University in Houston, Texas, USA. She is also a faculty member at the Ken Kennedy Institute and the Institute of Health Resilience and Innovation. She directs the interdisciplinary Selection, Methodology, and Assessment Research via Technology (SMART) lab.

Her research primarily focuses on personnel selection, individual differences, psychometrics, and using advanced technology and methodology to enhance staffing decisions, improve candidate and employee experiences, and solve organizational problems.

Dr. Sun’s work bridges traditional IO psychology and the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence. Her ongoing projects are supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Foundation.

She has been recognized as a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science (APS). She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in both Psychology and Statistics and a Ph.D. in IO/Personality Psychology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. More information about Dr. Sun can be found at linktr.ee/tianjunsun.