We are a team of corporate psychologists and coaches who earn their global clients’ deep trust and respect by partnering with them to maximize the contribution of their talent.
Our doctorally trained consultants deliver executive and professional assessments. All team members apply their education and experience to develop people and organizations.
We do this through proprietary assessments for selection and succession, evaluation of teams and organizations, team and individual development, and improvement of organizational structure.
We are committed to being the best talent evaluators, coaches, and consultants in the industry. We do this by hiring the best, continuing education, and participating in Psynet Group’s Roundtable, where we learn from each other. Additionally, we take care of each other to allow us to give our best to our clients.
Dave Popple, PhD, Founder and Managing Director
Dave has over 20 years of experience working with companies ranging in size from 5 to 80K employees. He recently completed his 1,000th executive assessment interview and 200th executive coaching. He designed the Psybil® Platform, built the current assessment suite, integrated factors from the interviews and coaching sessions, and statistically validated the tool.
He believes understanding diverse subjects is the key to being the best assessor, coach, and consultant while running a leading-edge organization. Therefore, he took courses in entrepreneurialism, design thinking, finance, sociology, neurology, political science, business, and psychology.
He integrated these disciplines into developing the Psybil® Assessment, Psynet Group’s Executive Assessment, Coaching, and Organizational Development Playbooks.
In addition to running Psynet Group and raising funds to launch Psybil as a Platform-as-a-Service Company. Dave continues to coach a select number of executives while writing a book on the insights from his 20-year career, many counterintuitive.
Sehr Ahmed, MBA, Senior Consultant
Sehr brings a global perspective, cultural savvy, and multi-industry experience in leading change and transformation for global businesses. She is currently the CHRO Asia for Mercer and has held HR leadership roles for ABN AMRO, Chartis Insurance, McDonald’s, and IFM Investors. What sets her apart is her distinct commercial focus having started her career as a Corporate Banker and later transitioned into Human Resources.
Sehr has an MBA in Corporate Finance from the Edinburgh Business School where she was a Commonwealth Scholar.
Prior to that, she graduated as a Wien Scholar from Brandeis University with a BA in Economics. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a certified Executive Coach from the Institute of Executive Coaching in Australia.
A self-confessed global nomad, having lived in 10 countries and 12 cities, she now resides in Hong Kong. Sehr is also a passionate advocate for women having raised two children single-handedly while managing a global corporate career.
Jody Popple, PhD, Senior Consultant
Through her prior work as a clinical psychologist and current role with Psynet Group, Jody has over 20 years of experience in human behavior and human systems. As a part-time consultant for Psynet, beginning in 2006, she took on a diverse group of clients ranging from an international mining company to local family-owned businesses.
In 2016, she joined the team full-time. She built Psynet’s Family Business Services with her expertise in family systems. Since 2018 has been focusing on developing the women’s leadership division as Director of Family Business Services and Women’s Leadership Development.
Jody continues to work with Psybil® and was key to building the Culture Preference Indicator and the Leadership Style Indicator modules. She applies her deep understanding of psychology and human behavior to deliver executive assessments and interpret Psybil results.
She received certification in Organizational Development at Columbia University. She applies this education in Psynet Group’s practice, including implementing the “Advice Culture” and employing the Role Navigator Technology to streamline organizations.
Brandon Young, PhD, Senior Consultant
Brandon has over 15 years of experience helping organizations identify and build sustainable solutions to their most pressing behavioral business challenges. He makes teams and organizations smarter by measuring what matters, and more productive through evidence-based psychology assessments and feedback processes.
Brandon believes people are multi-faceted and have a fundamental need to do a good job. Consequently, he values a whole-person approach to assessment — and treats motivation as a process an organization goes through with people, not something an organization does to people.
Beth Wykle, PhD, Senior Consultant
Beth has over 20 years of experience in assessment, consulting, and human behavior. She offers expertise in answering questions about people’s behavior and delivering actionable insights for educational and business communities.
She has a Ph.D. in school psychology with additional training in industrial/organizational psychology, user experience research, and project management.
Shreeja Menon, QA/Content Manager
Shreeja is an IT professional specializing in quality assurance, analysis, and design across diverse applications. Shreeja has experience in coordinating with global teams, she excels at creating robust quality assurance processes. Her expertise includes both manual and automation testing using tools like Selenium and Playwright.
Shreeja has experience leading User Acceptance Testing for e-commerce projects and implementing best practices that drive efficiency and continuous improvement. With strong analytical and communication skills, she focuses on delivering high-quality solutions that meet business needs while fostering collaboration among team members.
Tatiana Ovsiannikova, Program Lead
Tatiana is a passionate and proven leader with 12+ years of experience in project management and software development. As a certified Scrum Master and Product Owner, she contributes her experience and skill set towards the growth of an organization in the New York Tech Industry.
Tatiana worked with Dr. Popple in 2015 to build the Facticiti platform. She creates value by working effectively under pressure and deadlines, reducing risk and uncertainty, improving collaboration between software engineers and innovators, and increasing software team engagement.
George Randle, Senior Consultant
George is an experienced talent executive, decorated veteran, coach, and leader known for selecting, building, and reorganizing teams to reach their full business potential. George has 20+ years of Fortune 100 and Fortune 1000 global Human Resources and Talent Acquisition experience creating and leading elite teams. Following his successful military career, George transitioned to the Human Resources and Talent Acquisition functions serving the last 10+ years as a global HR executive and leader.
Over the course of his time as an executive, the teams George has built and led have hired over 85,000 professionals, including over 2000 executives. He is also known for his decades of work supporting veterans and their transitions; ultimately creating one of the largest and most successful Veteran Hiring Programs for a Global Fortune 50 firm.
Christian Wistehuff, Chief Operating Officer
Christian brings over 25 years of experience in corporate governance, management, and development in various industries, including hospitality, private investment, and financial services.
He is an honors graduate of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences / Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Christian also earned a Juris Doctor degree from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts.