Dr. K. T. Connor
Dr. K. T. Connor
A good 10 years after Wayne started his systematic work, an Organization Development specialist was looking for some way to measure competency for her company. K.T. Connor had her PhD in Communication and Business from the University of Southern California and had extensive experience in tests and measurements in business. As an internal consultant with Rich SeaPak Corporation, she had tried assessment after assessment and was stumped as to how to really understand why people were having performance problems and how to help them. At the request of a company executive she conducted a serious search for more effective measurement than the conventional offerings. She eventually discovered an article describing just the competencies she was concerned about, after sampling many inadequate instruments. She immediately contacted the developer, Wayne Carpenter, and was introduced to the HVP through his work. This was a gamechanger greater than anything she had hoped for.
The axiometric methodology he developed was exactly what the company was seeking. As a result, the process was institutionalized as a unified system of assessment. If a candidate came in the door, he was given the profile, and interview questions were immediately available to the hiring manager. If he was hired, a development report was run from the same data, and similar information was available for team building, coaching, training, and succession planning.
Connor became so proficient in utilizing the instrument that she decided to build a consulting practice around it. She has worked with all levels of the company, front line to executive, and in all kinds of companies, law firms, manufacturing plants, banks, hospitals, and processing companies, to name a few. Soon she was training other consultants how to understand and apply the methodology, and working with Wayne to develop new applications. She stands now as second to Wayne Carpenter as having the longest history in teaching and applying Axiometrics™.
