Brittany Davies

Leveraging a decade of experience working as a business psychologist and team leader, I regularly demonstrate my expertise in designing and delivering effective talent selection and development strategies. I have particular experience in creating, implementing and evaluating end-to-end talent acquisition solutions for a variety of sectors and clients. I am passionate about building diverse talent pipelines and incorporating innovative and effective psychometric assessments, all informed by best practice principles of design and evaluation.  My proven track record includes managing complex multi-stage projects for global clients, ensuring the successful delivery of recruitment programmes within challenging timeframes. As a trusted consultant, I engage closely with clients to understand their needs, providing bespoke solutions that drive meaningful outcomes. As a leader, I foster a consultative, coaching environment to empower my team's autonomous growth. This combination of expertise and leadership makes me a valuable asset for any organization seeking to strengthen its internal talent acquisition and development practices.

Cappfinity

• Lead Psychologist & Skills Development Lead, September 2024 - Present
• Managing Assessment Consultant, October 2023 – September 2024
• Principal Consultant, October 2022 – October 2023
• Senior Consultant, April 2022 – October 2022
  • Lead the training and development of all UK Assessment psychologists, ensuring they have the skills and knowledge required to deliver best practice assessments to delight our clients and the candidates they serve.
    • Regularly deliver team wide training alongside individual coaching and mentoring to support team members on applying psychological principles in their roles.
  • Design and enhance recruitment processes for clients using a blended assessment approach informed by psychological principles and best practices for complex client needs (e.g., law firms, financial services).
  • Deliver and project manage multiple complex client solutions simultaneously. Catering to complex stakeholder requirements, orchestrating internal project team delivery, and making best practice design decisions for the success of client solutions. 
    • Example: Designed a fully bespoke recruitment and development processes for legal assistants within a British law firm, for recruitment, onboarding based on skills, and 9-month review process feeding into wider career development. Successfully increased the pipeline of future legal trainees within the firm.
  • Evaluate assessment and recruitment processes using statistical analysis alongside psychological expertise. Introduce data-led improvements to enhance the validity of assessment processes and enhance the diversity and inclusion representation among applicants (through adverse impact analysis, reliability and validity studies, and end-to-end campaign analyses).
    • Present complex analysis and evaluations in a manner that suits the audience being addressed, empowering clients to engage in meaningful discussions with key stakeholders and to translate outcomes into actionable change.
  • Support business development by acting as a technical expert in designing innovative solutions tailored to client needs, preparing compelling pitches and delivering in pitches. Collaborate with the sales team to grow key accounts and identify new business opportunities.
  • Liaise with a variety of ATS and platform providers to integrate assessments and provide a seamless end-to-end candidate experience, such as Workday, HireServe, HireVue, Amberjack, eARCU, Oleeo and others.

Kaplan Open Learning

• Advisory Board Member, February 2023 – Present
  • Work closely with psychology lecturers and professionals to help improve the existing offering of Psychology based university courses. 
  • Provide real world expertise of psychological practices from a Business Psychology perspective.
  • Deliver careers talks to students to inform and generate interest in psychology careers.

Sten 10                                                 

• Senior Consultant, August 2021 – March 2022
• Consultant, November 2019 – August 2021
  • Designed and delivered bespoke assessments for diverse clients (large organisations, startups) tailoring delivery to their needs and budgets.
  • Collaborated with a leadership consultancy to design a custom psychometric assessment tool aligned with their leadership model, instrumental in recruiting senior leaders.
  • Developed a bespoke senior manager development program for a global engineering firm, using assessments to identify future talent and facilitate leadership succession.
  • Provided platform guidance and management for clients to upload custom assessments (various platforms - TopScore, Sova, etc.).

The Myers Briggs Company         

• Consultant, August 2017 – October 2019      
• Support Consultant, November 2015 – August 2017
  • Led complex psychometric training for diverse audiences, ensuring qualification and effective application of tools (MBTI, FIRO-B, etc.) with exceptional participant satisfaction (3.96/4).
  • Coached individuals (internal and external) on performance management, leadership, career development, and change management.
  • Designed eLearning programmes for online delivery of training for all TMBC products (storyboarding, design, development).

2012-2013            University of Gloucestershire, MSc Occupational Psychology: Merit

• Dissertation: Exploring perceptions of interpersonal relationships within a professional workplace.

2008-2011          University of Plymouth, BSc Hons Psychology 2:1

• Specialist areas: benefits of work environments on mood and work performance, and effective training and development of staff within a business.

Psychometrics

• BPS TUOA and TUOP Qualified on RQTU database
• 16PF & 15FQ+
• MBTI Step I & MBTI Step II
• FIRO & FIRO Business

Training & Qualifications

• Time to Think foundation course, 2016
• Instructional Design, Pacific Blue, 2017
• Practical Facilitation Skills, Roffey Park, 2017
• Elucidat eLearning Software, 2019
• Mental Health First Aid qualified, 2018
• First Aid at Work qualified, 2018