Dr. Carrie A. Picardi, Ph.D., is an industrial/organizational psychologist with over 20 years of professional experience in human resource management, as a research analyst and consultant, and in academia as a tenured professor of management. She has led initiatives in the areas of leadership development, assessment center design and deployment, job analysis, talent acquisition and retention, compensation and total rewards, learning and development, performance management, and employee engagement. Her research focuses on employee performance management, and she has published several peer-reviewed research papers in this area as well as presented her findings at national conferences. In addition to Leadership Essentials, Dr. Picardi is the author of two textbooks, Research Methods: Designing and Conducting Research With a Real-World Focus (Sage, 2013) and Recruitment and Selection: Strategies for Workforce Planning and Assessment (Sage, 2019).