For nearly four decades, Stephen Webster, PhD, has delivered transformative executive assessments to top-tier life science companies in eight countries. His expertise is in demand by leading life science companies internationally. Our service encompasses executive assessments of candidates for board composition, senior executive recruitment, leadership promotions, succession strategies, project leadership, team optimization, and high-stakes senior finance executive searches.
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Executive assessment is a specialized discipline within psychological consulting, designed to evaluate the unique demands of executive and senior leadership roles. At its core, it provides a rigorous, evidence-based framework for gathering, analyzing, and interpreting critical data to determine an executive candidate’s potential for success within the distinct context of a specific organizational structure, corporate culture and set of challenges. With decades of proven expertise, we have partnered with leading life science companies to deliver in-depth, customized executive assessments and advanced psychometric evaluations. Our services support key decision-making in executive hiring, leadership promotions, succession strategies, project leadership, and optimizing team dynamics, ensuring our clients achieve strategic alignment and long-term success. |
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We conduct executive assessments using an exclusive assessment matrix that includes interviews, trained observation, social and personality analysis, performance evaluations, and proprietary psychometric tools—developed, tested, and continually reassessed to align performative predictions with actual outcomes. Results are benchmarked against our in-house database of thousands of the world’s top life science finance executives, compiled over the past 35 years.
Candidates are assessed for cognitive ability, professional skills, previous experience, leadership, situational judgment, adaptability, effective communication, energy level, work ethic, motivation, goals, personality, interpersonal skills, and their ability to perform optimally within the company’s culture and organizational dynamics. |
Psychometric Assessment
When correctly formulated, tested in followup studies, administered and interpreted by qualified, experienced professionals, psychometric assessments are a useful tool. Results should be viewed as an indicator but not necessarily predictive of job performance and should never be relied upon in isolation.
Our Psychometric Assessments are used to measure aspects of intelligence, critical thinking skills, and judgment, including multifaceted problem-solving, ability to identify patterns in dissimilar information, strategic agility/adaptability to changing circumstances, situational judgment; abstract, verbal, numerical, and logical reasoning.
Psychometric assessments have questionable predictive validity when testing emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills. Our candidates are highly intelligent and accomplished professionals for whom the psychometric emotional intelligence and personality tests are embarrassingly transparent and easily manipulated. A trained, qualified, experienced professional interviewer will provide more accurate, contextual evaluations.
Our Psychometric Assessments are used to measure aspects of intelligence, critical thinking skills, and judgment, including multifaceted problem-solving, ability to identify patterns in dissimilar information, strategic agility/adaptability to changing circumstances, situational judgment; abstract, verbal, numerical, and logical reasoning.
Psychometric assessments have questionable predictive validity when testing emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills. Our candidates are highly intelligent and accomplished professionals for whom the psychometric emotional intelligence and personality tests are embarrassingly transparent and easily manipulated. A trained, qualified, experienced professional interviewer will provide more accurate, contextual evaluations.