About Our Company
Founded in 2006 by Laura Hamill, Ph.D., Paris Phoenix Group is dedicated to providing organizations with customized solutions for complex business situations, generally involving employee issues. Paris Phoenix Group is a group of organizational psychologists and research consultants who share a passion for understanding the employee perspective and how that fits into the larger organizational context.
To provide clients with the best solutions to their questions, our services are built upon a highly disciplined and robust research approach and are aligned to professional standards. Our full spectrum of research methodology begins with an assessment strategy and ends with action planning with the client.
Providing the highest quality in employee research and business solutions, we are supported by a service-oriented research operations team and a cutting-edge product development team.
Laura Hamill, Ph.D.
Founder and President
Laura Hamill has a Ph. D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and has over 15 years of experience architecting and implementing research and assessment strategies in organizations. Laura owns Paris Phoenix Group, an organizational research and assessment consulting firm that she started in early 2006, and is Vice President of multirater.com, a partner company in business for 12 years and a Microsoft vendor since 2002.
Before starting her own company, Laura worked for Microsoft for over 8 years, primarily as the Director of People Research, a team of organizational psychologists. In this role, she developed Microsoft's first leadership competency model, developed multiple large-scale assessment techniques and processes, and conducted individual executive assessments for their senior-most leaders. Before Microsoft, Laura conducted employee research at Allstate Research and Planning Center and Bell Atlantic.
She earned her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Old Dominion University and a B.S. in Psychology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Lindsay Bousman, Ph.D.
Organizational Research, Assessment, and Consulting
Lindsay Bousman has extensive experience helping clients find answers and solutions to their talent management questions and closing the gaps in their talent management programs. Her work includes leading full-scale annual employee survey programs, creating custom competency models and assessments, and developing custom solutions aligned to a business strategy with such varied outcomes as validated interview guides, biodata-based self-assessments, toolkits for leading change, and on-boarding program enhancements. She has conducted global engagement surveys for Starbucks and Microsoft, culture assessments, managed exit survey programs, and provided custom research services.
Prior to her Northwest professional career, she worked in the Midwest as an independent consultant providing project support and statistical analyses, developing selection tests, and worked as a compensation analyst in HR for Central States Health and Life Company of Omaha.
She earned her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Nebraska, an M.A. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and a B.A. in Psychology at William Woods University.
Elizabeth Pavese-Kaplan, M.A.
Organizational Research, Assessment, and Consulting
Liz brings a breadth of experiences in organizational assessment and research, helping organizations build evidence-based solutions that are strategically aligned to help resolve complex employee issues. Her work includes competency development, conducting employee surveys and data analysis, culture assessment, conducting focus groups and structured interviews, creating employee assessments, and implementing workshops and toolkits to aid in organizational change efforts.
Prior to Paris Phoenix Group, Liz worked independently with a variety of organizations in the Greater Seattle Area on projects including the development of several managerial training modules, conducting program evaluation, and evaluating training and workshop curricula. She also has experience in HR, developing an employee orientation program, trainer guides and curriculum, developing proposals for employee programs, and compiling satisfaction surveys.
Liz is pursuing a Ph. D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Seattle Pacific University where she completed her M.A. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. She earned her B.A. in Psychology from the State University of New York, College at Geneseo.