About Envisia Tools
Research shows that performance actually decreases in 33% of all feedback interventions. Our committment to Coaches, Consultants and Trainers is to do everything in our power to help you ensure successful interventions.
Envisia Tools has been providing leadership development and assessment solutions for over 20 years. Our products have been researched and developed by licensed industrial/organizational psychologists with decades of coaching and consulting experience.
What differentiates us from other assessment providers is that we've built our processes and products to meet unique needs of coaches, consultants & trainers. We offer you validated tools, free advice on "best practices", carefree administration and comprehensive reports. This will allow you to focus on translating feedback into meaningful change for your clients!
Envisia Tools specializes in helping you create bottom line success for your clients to grow your consulting business! Here's how:
- We partner with you by branding our tools with your logo - Regardless of how much or how often you buy. And we offer free trials to your potential clients to support your marketing efforts!
- We handle customer support for your participants and raters. After data has been collected, we print, ship or email reports for you. The result: Carefree scoring and administration.
- We offer you complimentary services that publishing firms don't. Including complimentary composite reports and FREE advice from qualified assessment experts.
- We avoid certification fees wherever ethically possible. We do offer free resources to help you utilize our tools using the best practices.
Let us help you make your interventions a success. Call us toll-free at (800) 335-0779 today to request your free re-printed article outlining "best practices" in utilizing our multi-rater assessments.
(Wimer, S. and Nowack, K. (1998). Thirteen common mistakes in implementing multi-rater feedback systems. Training and Development, 52, 69-80)
Envisia Tools Management Team
Kenneth M. Nowack, Ph.D.
President & Chief Research Officer, Co-Founder
Dr. Kenneth M. Nowack is a licensed psychologist (PSY 13758) and President & Chief Research Officer of Envisia Tools. He is charged with providing strategic vision/leadership, conceptual product design and development, research, public relations, and advanced client relations.
Ken has over twenty years of experience in the development and validation of human resource systems, assessment tools, organizational climate surveys, questionnaires, simulations, and tests. He has developed 360° feedback systems, assessment centers, employee selection, succession planning, performance appraisal, and management development training programs for a number of clients in the public, private and not for profit sectors. Ken has conducted research and published extensively in the areas of 360 degree feedback systems, health psychology, survey research, training evaluation, assessment and personnel testing. He has also authored numerous assessment instruments and interactive software programs.
Dr. Nowack has also participated extensively in the activities of professional associations and has made numerous presentations to both national and local association conferences and community groups. His active association memberships include:
- American Psychological Association
- California Psychological Association
- Society of Consulting Psychology
- Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
- American Society of Training and Development
- Personnel Testing Council of Southern California
- Society of Human Resource Management
- Society for Behavioral Medicine
Ken also serves as Chief Learning Officer of Organizational Performance Dimensions and is a member of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Educational Psychology at the University of California, Davis, and his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles where he is a lecturer at the Anderson School of Management.
Andy Parkinson
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder
Andrew Parkinson is an accomplished entrepreneur and serves as Chief Executive Officer of Envisia Tools. He is charged with providing the company's strategic vision/leadership, directing finance, operations, and technology, and managing all director-level staff.
A prodigy who began his professional career at an early age, Andy has over ten years of experience in directing entrepreneurial companies providing technology solutions to the business sector. In 1996, he founded Chromatic Concepts, Inc., a company that specializes in the development of client-server applications. During his tenure there, he has personally guided the company's growth, managed the company to year-over-year profitability. Andy has designed proprietary learning management, CRM, accounting and human resources survey, assessment and scoring software systems being used internationally today.
Andy attended the University of California, Los Angeles and also founded Chromatic Concepts, Inc. where he still serves as Chief Executive Officer.
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