"Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile."
Mike Pearson, MS is a behavioral scientist, consultant, counselor, and speaker with over 35 years of experience in the human resource arena. He is a graduate of Tulsa University and the University of Houston - Clear Lake, with doctorial studies at the University Of Texas Health Science Center - Houston. He is the co- founder of Adage Solutions, LLC, an HR consulting and assessment company.
Mike is the developer of the HIP Assessment, which is the first time a pre-employment assessment has incorporated the research on cognitive ability with the research of experts such as Bandura and Rotter who predict personal success attributes. The assessment and supporting processes increase the ability for an organization to predict the future performance of job applicants.
Mike's HR experience is in diverse areas including corporate consulting, individual counseling and working as an HR representative. His entrepreneurial pursuits include corporate consulting in outplacement, turnover analysis, HR outsourcing, employee assistance programs, and corporate recruiting. He has worked with individuals in career counseling, including conducting workshops and role-playing for seniors at the University of Houston - Clear Lake and drug and alcohol treatment. His HR representative experience is expansive including job analysis and compensation, tests and measures (including a national validation study), multi-state college recruiting, and management assessment centers. The HR representative experience was in a union environment with a pro-active diversity program.
Mike's research and work centers on looking at organizational behavior and assisting organizations to utilize high performance individuals. His research supports the ability to predict job performance through simple but methodical hiring practices that eliminates unintended bias.
Mike's other pursuits include teaching at the Jung Center in Houston and he is currently co-authoring a book entitled Yesterday's Solutions Are Today's Problems.
"Adage Solutions has allowed me to develop what I consider the "magic bullet" for effectively hiring people into complex jobs. It provides a predictive means for a hiring authority to find a High Impact Player."
Kathy Pearson, MBA is a consultant, software executive and co-founder of Adage Solutions, an HR consulting and assessment company. She has over 30 years of experience working with Fortune 100 companies to improve their business processes and technology. She is a graduate of the William S. Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University and has held management positions in organizations such as Ernst & Young, IBM, Oracle, AT Kearney and 2 start-ups.
Kathy has long looked for a yardstick that will assist in hiring the right people for the organizations she managed and her clients. To this end, she assisted in the development of an assessment - The HIP Assessment® that objectively measures job applicant's cognitive abilities and those less tangible success attributes that allow people to be successful. Having created high performance teams without the benefits of a yardstick - she was eager to find a tool that organizations can use to identify high performance individuals.
Kathy's expertise focuses on building and managing high performance teams to deliver results. Her passion is the ability to take a diverse group of people and assist them in becoming a high performance team. In the complex world, identifying high performance team members that may not fit the societal stereo types is critical for organizations to excel in the ever-complex environment of work.
For many years, Kathy has guided companies in how to apply technology to deal with complexity and simplify work to fit the needs and abilities of the work force. She is currently working with organizations to use high performing individuals to pull the entire organization up and to use the technology and knowledge that is readily available.
Kathy's current research and work centers on how to build teams using high functioning and self-directed individuals to make a difference in the business world. Recent events with home mortgages and banking are early indicators of how the business world has changed and what can happen if we try to use old processes and solutions to deal with the rapidly changing world.
She is currently co-authoring a book with the working title Yesterday's Solutions Are Today's Problems that tracks the changes in the business world since the 1970's and provides ideas on how to create new solutions for today's problems.
"Adage Solutions is my opportunity to help organizations build high performance teams by objectively identifying individuals who demonstrate the ability to excel in the current complex knowledge economy."
Mike Gattis, BA is a highly respected and successful sales executive for over 30 years and a graduate of North Texas State University in Denton, Texas.
Mike attended New Mexico Military Institute, a nationally ranked top ten Junior College, on a football scholarship. He requested a tryout for a full football scholarship at NTSU. He earned the scholarship. The team had a winning record, went on to be Missouri Valley champions, and contributed sixteen players to the NFL under the leadership of Head Coach Rod Rust. Through this opportunity, Mike received the winning foundation that supported his business career.
Mike is the consummate sales professional. He began his sales career at Bergen Brunswig where he served for over eleven years. He moved to Rugby Labs, a generic drug manufacturer, where he served as Vice President of National Accounts at Rugby Labs. Later, he accepted a position with Bindley Western Drug Company as Vice President of National Accounts. He was eventually was elevated to Senior Vice President of Sales. During Mike's tenure new divisions were created, acquisitions were made and the Bindley Western sales grew significantly. He resigned his position in December of 1999. (Cardinal Healthcare acquired the company in March of 2000 for 8.4 billion dollars.) Between entrepreneurial endeavors, Mike worked with Pliva, Inc. a generic drug manufacturer.
Mike was recently coaxed to join Adage Solutions, LLC to drive the growth and success of a start up. He believes Adage products, including the High Impact Player Assessment® will make a significant impact on how business is done in the United States.
"I am 100% satisfied that what Adage Solutions has is a product or series of products that can improve the quality of hiring new employees."