Data Analytics & Research
Evidence-Based Talent Analytics & Structured Validation Partnerships
Two complementary research streams — organisational talent analytics that sharpen your evidence-based decisions, and validation partnerships that strengthen the local psychometric evidence base of our instruments.
Two Complementary Research Streams
One works with your data to inform your decisions. The other works across organisations to strengthen the instruments themselves.
Stream One
Organisational Research & Talent Analytics
Advanced statistical modelling and applied psychometric expertise, turning your assessment and performance data into defensible, evidence-based decision frameworks.
Stream Two
Assessment Validation Partnerships
Structured collaboration with universities and organisations to strengthen the local evidence base for assessments in the Psytech and Podium catalogues.
Organisational Research & Talent Analytics
Organisations frequently need defensible answers to hard talent questions. We convert your own data into those answers.
The Kinds of Questions We Help You Answer
What talent profiles does this organisation attract?
What differentiates high from average performance here?
Are our assessments predicting performance?
Are we achieving measurable return on investment from selection?
Are there subgroup fairness or differential prediction risks?
Are we over-assessing?
Are we covering all critical competencies?
We combine advanced statistical modelling with applied psychometric expertise to convert internal assessment and performance data into evidence-based decision frameworks. These engagements can include Psytech, Podium and other assessments where relevant.
Research Consulting Services
Talent Audits
A structured review of who you attract, assess and hire — turning fragmented data into a coherent talent picture.
Assessment Battery Effectiveness Reviews
Evaluate whether your current battery is doing the job it was selected for — and where it can be tightened.
Predictive Validity Studies
Use your internal data to test how strongly your assessments predict on-the-job performance.
Adverse Impact & Subgroup Analysis
Identify subgroup fairness risks in your selection process — defensibly and transparently.
Differential Prediction Modelling
Test whether your assessments predict performance equally well across relevant subgroups.
Utility & ROI Modelling
Quantify the financial value of assessment-based selection — translating psychometric rigour into business terms.
Workforce Analytics & Talent Lifecycle Studies
Trace patterns across hiring, performance, mobility and retention to understand your talent ecosystem end-to-end.
Assessment Validation Partnerships
Alongside organisational research, we are continuously strengthening the local evidence base for assessments within the Psytech and Podium catalogues.
Norm Development & Expansion
Building and expanding norm groups that represent the populations our instruments are actually used on.
Reliability & Structural Validity
Ongoing analysis of reliability and the underlying factor structure of each instrument.
Measurement Invariance & Subgroup Studies
Testing that the instruments measure the same construct, the same way, across subgroups.
Predictive Validity & Case Studies
Building local case-study evidence of predictive validity — grounded in real workplace outcomes.
Open Invitation to Collaborate
We invite universities and organisations to collaborate on structured data collection initiatives for specific instruments — particularly newer emerging tools. If you're interested in contributing to, or benefiting from, a validation partnership, we'd like to talk.
Can Your Data Answer Your Question?
Just as importantly — we can assist you in planning your research. That means determining whether the questions you have can be answered with the data at your disposal, or helping you plan the best way to collect the necessary data to address your research interests. Not every good question has a ready answer in existing data — we help you figure out which is which, and what to do next.
Ready to Put Your Talent Data to Work?
Whether you need an evidence-backed answer to a specific talent question, or you're interested in a validation partnership — let's talk about the right approach.