Who We Are

Jace helps organizations maximize their talent management as a Human Capital Consultant at TalentLab Collaborative. He is also currently a Research Data Scientist at Omaha Public Schools serving over a hundred schools and programs to evaluate building climate, teacher and student engagement, parent perceptions, as well as managing multiple areas of district reporting. Jace has been helping organizations discover actionable insights and delivering value-added expertise since 2014. He has experience working in education, manufacturing, government, and small business. He specializes in employee surveys and visual dashboard reporting to make informed strategic decisions and improve key performance indicators. Jace enjoys helping organizations discover the value of their talent and how to maximize outputs using custom survey measures, job analysis, coaching, and KPI linkages. His interests include developing leaders with customized measurement and development solutions, assessing impact of current business trends on human capital, and post-survey action planning.

Maximizer | Significance | Futuristic | Focus | Individualization

Skills

Research Core/Employee Experience Certified, Qualtrics
Lean/Green Belt, Six Sigma
Certified in Building High Performing Teams using the Curphy/Hogan Rocket Model

Credentials

M.S., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, St. Cloud State University
B.A., Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
BSBA, Business Administration, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Nicole Landowski Human Capital Consultant

Nicole has over seven years of consulting experience by applying evidence-based solutions to government, healthcare, manufacturing, education, and non-profit industries. Nicole specializes in qualitative and quantitative research methodologies to improve business performance through: organizational change and development, organizational climate and culture, leadership and individual coaching, talent management, and performance management initiatives. With over eight years of research experience, Nicole has been awarded three research grants as a principal investigator for studies focused on team meetings and served as co-investigator on several others focused on teamwork, leadership, and measurement in organizations. To date, Nicole’s work includes three academic publications, over 25 national and international conference presentations, and over 30 technical reports. She has held internal research roles in higher education assessment as well as R&D for the leading provider of people development solutions, The Myers-Briggs Company, formerly CPP, Inc. She has a passion for explaining and visualizing findings in a non-technical way so that the layperson can understand the value of her work.

Achiever | Analytical | Focus | Competition | Strategic

Skills

Statistical Software: SPSS, SPSS AMOS, SAS, Python, R
Python Libraries: NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Pandas SQL, Scrapy, Statsmodels, Sklearn
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Certified Practitioner Form M and Q

Credentials

PhD, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, University of Nebraska at Omaha
MS, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, St. Cloud State University
BA, Psychology, cum laude, Creighton University Ray Klahr Organization Development Consultant

Ray is an organization development consultant bringing 5 years of experience working with small business, nonprofit and government sectors. Her work at Hennepin County focuses on helping teams and leaders be effective and engaged in their work through building a strengths-based culture, supporting leadership development, career development, and implemntiong an employee experience frame to the work of Human Resources. Ray is passionate about helping those who help others, and loves seeing individuals and organizations grow into their fullest potential and thrive. She specializes in the areas of: team development, strengths-based leadership development, culture, and helping leaders manage the people side of change.

WOO | Input | Communication | Activator | Achiever

Skills

Prosci Change Management, 2018
Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, 2017
EQ-i 2.0, 2016
ToP Facilitation method, 2015

Credentials

M.S., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, St. Cloud State University
B.S., Psychology and B.A. Spanish, UW-River Falls 2013 Bri Torborg Strategy Consultant

Bri Torborg is passionate about helping organizations execute competitive and meaningful strategies as a Strategist for TalentLab Collaborative. Bri has spent many years as a Professional Business Consultant for the Minnesota Central Region Small Business Development Center assisting clients in finding millions in start-up and growth funding while building their corporate structures to manage growth sustainably. Bri leans heavy into futuring, strategic and workforce planning in her approaches. Past projects have spanned strategic growth planning, focus group facilitation, custom engagement surveys, analysis, market research and positioning. Complacency is not an option as Bri adopts a continuous and flexible learning style to deliver the greatest and most innovative methods to her work with clients. Clients who partner with Bri will be able to succinctly describe their competitive advantage, strategy and cultural differentiators in order attract and retain the highest quality candidates to accomplish their market leading strategies. Mantras

-What gets measured, gets managed.
-Take care of your troops, they take care of you and your customers.
-I use the F word every day in business; flexibility.

Strengths

Achiever | Learner | Individualization | Ideation | Arranger

Skills

SHRM CP, Society for Human Resources Management (May 2017)
Venture Deals, Kauffman Foundation and Techstars (May 2019)
Succession and Exit Planning, ASBDC (May 2019)

Credentials

M.S., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, St. Cloud State University
B.A., Psychology, St. Cloud State University Kristi Noble Human Capital Consultant Kristi currently works in the field of assessment and survey research helping organizations gain actionable insights from data. She has over five years of consulting experience working in a variety of industries including education, food market research, personality testing, nonprofits, architecture and interior design. She specializes in survey development and data analysis. Kristi is passionate about helping employees develop the skills and abilities needed to succeed and exceed in their individual roles. Strengths

Restorative | Ideation | Woo | Communication | Analytical

Skills

Cerfified in Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
Statistical Software: SPSS and R
Pre and Post Occupancy Evaluations

Credentials

M.S., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, St. Cloud State University
B.S., Psychology and Spanish, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse