Jared D. Lock, a Ph.D. and Licensed Industrial/Organizational psychologist has a solid 25-year career both building successful businesses and providing Business Psychology to Intelligent Professionals. He brought together these experiences under The JDL Group umbrella 8 years ago. Some career highlights include: • Running Hogan Assessment Systems where he was brought in as the 5th employee when the company was $1 million in sales and grew them to 40 employees, $20 million in sales and coverage of 24 languages in 33 countries in less than 8 years. • Completing a long-term engagement as Consulting Chief Human Resources Officer in a start-up electric vehicle company building and styling a Learner and feedback-rich environment in Silicon Valley for a dynamic and ever-changing company environment. • Successfully creating The JDL Group where clients get the most accurate information in business-friendly terms. Highlights include building the succession planning model for adidas world-wide, creating leadership development programs for 5 of the Fortune 100, and implementing selection systems averaging over 50,000 assessments used per year. While a psychologist by training, he is a businessman first and ingrains himself with the organization’s business mission and operating philosophy. He then applies his psychological and people understanding in business terms, helping organizations easily use the complex world of psychology to their advantage; i.e., Business Psychology for Intelligent Professionals. His work is typically at the CEO and Board level in such organizations as adidas, Zenith Insurance, Valorem, Herschend Enterprises, Sprint, Valero, Hallmark, and Via Christi. He is a frequent speaker, writer, and professional trainer with over 60 book chapters, publications, and presentations in professionally refereed organizations. He is an active member of APA, the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychologists (SIOP), and SHRM.