Founded in 1984, NeoPsy Systems is a firm of consultants who apply the science of psychology to business challenges.
About us
Our Clients
Our clients range from startup companies to multi-national enterprises and are diverse enough to include high technology, healthcare, telecommunications, financial services, utilities, educational entities, and manufacturing industries.
View TestimonialsWe help organizations create quantum leaps in effectiveness and maximize competitive advantage by fully leveraging their human talent. We achieve this by forging relationship-based partnerships with clients and developing the individual and collective talents of people and organizations.
Providing both assessments of organizations and individuals has been a mainline competency for us over the past 20 years. Our practice includes partnering with key members of the leadership team in a company to create High Performance Organizations or to assist in the Accelerated Transformation of your company to meet the changing demands of the marketplace. We provide psychological perspective on the execution of key organizational initiatives and insight into alternative methods for achieving strong results through people.
With NeoPsy Systems you not only receive the benefit of working with senior consultants with years of valuable experience, you also get an unparalleled bias toward objectivity, measurement and proof. We take pride in knowing where you want to be, and joining you on the trip to your destination. We challenge you to find a more customer-focused, customized solution provider than this team of doctoral level psychologists dedicated to your success.
Meet our team
Kevin E. Somerville
Ph.D., ABPP
Kevin's specialty is assisting CEOs and Boards in building great companies. He has 30 years of experience working with senior executives starting with large multi-nationals and now concentrating on private equity firms and their portfolio companies.
He has served on the Boards of several public and private companies over the last 20 years. Currently, Kevin is an Operating Partner for Norwest Equity Partners and sits on the board of Deceased Credit Management. Formerly he served on the Boards of Wilkerson Corp, Siegal-Robert, Inc., digitaNATION, Advanced TelCom group, Diveo Broadband Networks, Inc., the Vancouver Canucks, and the University of Denver Professional School of Psychology. He has been an advisor to more than one hundred boards over the past 25 years.
Kevin received his Doctorate from Saint Louis University in 1972. He is also a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology.
Diane Hill
Ph.D., ABPP
Diane is a clinical psychologist with 30 years of experience consulting with global Fortune 500 organizations in the mining, utility and financial services industries, as well as private equity partnerships and their portfolio companies.
She has worked with academic institutions, professional associations, and health care facilities.
Her focus is on helping executives develop high performing organizations. She and her colleagues use interviews and proprietary metrics to identify opportunities to more effectively leverage the human capital in organizations. They use both off-the-shelf and customized interventions to close gaps between current functioning and the qualities that characterize high performing organizations. These include executive coaching, the design and execution of metrics-based selection programs, efforts focused on cultural transformation, and team development work. Applied research and outcome assessment are core disciplines of the practice.
She has served as Director of the Professional Examination Service, President of Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards, and Chairman of the Colorado Board of Psychologist Examiners. She has been a consultant for the Center for Creative Leadership and a Partner with NeoPsy Systems for the past 26 years.
Diane earned her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology.
Jim W. Thompson
Ph.D., M.B.A.
Jim has been in the consulting industry for 24 years. His specialty is applied research and he has developed many of the instruments that are our key to assisting companies in executive evaluation and placement, organizational assessment and strategic planning including Leadership Style Indicator®, the HiPerOrg® Survey, ProStyle™, and the Developmental Opportunity Identifier™.
Jim designs and facilitates strategic planning conferences and team problem solving, as well as workshops for executives and teams of all sorts. He has led organizational change efforts in utility companies, including developing a safety culture that reduced accidents in distribution operations and created work force empowerment in fossil plants. He developed Somerville Partners' selection services QualiFit® Systems, including a database of position success profiles that allow more objective selection of key personnel based on unique empirical models developed for specific positions.
He was an Officer in the Air Force, Army, and Navy Reserve as a clinical psychologist and organizational effectiveness staff officer. He assisted an Army unit screen and select candidates for sniper training.
Jim holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Arkansas, a B.B.A. in Personnel Management from the University of North Texas and an M.B.A. in Management from Golden Gate University.
Amanda Julian
Ph.D.
Amanda has 20 years experience working with investors, CEOs and senior executives. Her specialty is partnering with investors to build great companies by selecting outstanding executive talent. She has consulted with global 500 organizations and now focuses on private equity firms and their portfolio companies. Amanda provides investors and management teams with an understanding of how to maximize leadership effectiveness and build value creation.
Specifically, she specializes in applied research to assist investors in executive selection, executive development, and organizational assessment.
Amanda holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Industrial Psychology from Bowling Green State University and obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Lauren Salamone
M.S.
Lauren has over 30 years of experience in leadership and management in the health care and related industries. She has a strong background in health research, program development and implementation, project management and process improvement quality initiatives.
While living remotely in Alaska, Lauren served as a Federal Contractor for Indian Health Services and the Bureau of Indian Affairs providing over 10 different health services programs to the six outlying Koniag native tribes in Kodiak Alaska and the Aleutian chain.
Lauren has consulted to executives in selecting and implementing enterprise-wide systems for technological advancement in health care services delivery along with selecting and developing executive teams to deploy and manage these services. Lauren works as a consultant with NeoPsy Systems in assisting organizations to rapidly achieve their business goals.
She has a M.S. from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
Client Testimonials
R. Glenn Hilliard, CEO, ING North America
NeoPsy Systems has been a good business partner for ING companies over the past decade. NeoPsy has participated very successfully in a wide range of areas: personal development of executives; personal and high quality team development in our North America operations; corporate and cultural transformation; value proposition transformation and strategic action planning; and selection and training for a full range of employees.
Jim Kelly, CEO and President, SynXis Corporation
People make the business. NeoPsy's participation in the executive selection process helps assure that we hire the very best people. Key personnel and organizational decisions then determine how the organization goes forward. NeoPsy's participation not only in selecting team members, but in developing them, is worth every penny.
Virgil Reed, President, Time Warner Cable, Cincinnati Division
We started work with NeoPsy Systems in 1994. NeoPsy deserves a great deal of the credit for helping us become as successful as we are today.
Dan O' Brien, President and COO, Primestar
Industrial psychology is often thought of as a mysterious, subjective, and ambiguous evaluation process, probably not directly impacting your business results. Far from that, NeoPsy Systems provide client companies with specific, measurable means of assessing how to create highly productive, results-oriented management teams NeoPsy challenges their clients to maximize the return on their human investment, and delivers on the challenge.