Thomas D. Fletcher, PhD
Assistant Professor
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Department of Psychology
University of Missouri - St. Louis 

FletcherT@umsl.edu

 

Consulting Philosophy 

My general philosophy in consulting is consistent with humanistic psychology, process consultation and organizational development values. Rather than simply do for the client, I prefer to facilitate learning. That is, the beneficiary of the consultation services should learn from the project. While this approach is considerably more time consuming for myself, it provides satisfaction for me and the beneficiary beyond the finished product. This approach empowers clients to ask their own questions, concurrently develop more lucid research ideas and apply the learned approaches to future research endeavors. In this way, consulting serves as an outreach activity. 

Consulting Services 

    Psychometric Assistance
        (1) Development of survey instruments
        (2) Test Refinement (item reduction/assessment)
        (3) Validity Assessment 

    Statistical Analysis
        (1) Research design
        (2) Moderation & Mediation 
        (3) Structural Equation Modeling 
        (4) Multilevel Modeling
        (5) Longitudinal Analysis 
            (profile analysis, latent growth modeling, random coefficient modeling)

    Organizational Research/Development
        (1) Organizational (attitudinal) survey research
        (2) Motivational Assessment
        (3) Retention Issues
        (4) Intervention/Training Evaluation

 

Brief Bio 

Thomas Fletcher received his PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology in 2005 from Old Dominion University. His major and minor areas of study were organizational and quantitative psychology respectively. He has taught courses in multivariate statistics, test and measurements, psychometric theory, structural equation modeling and multilevel analyses. He has served as a statistical consultant in the departments of psychology at Old Dominion University and University of Missouri – St. Louis. He has worked on numerous funded projects making both statistical and substantive contributions.