Assessment & Behavioral Psychology Practice Leader

Company Description

The Bailey Group is a high-touch executive coaching and consulting firm serving organizations across the Midwest. We partner with CEOs, executive teams, senior executives and high-potential leaders, executive teams to realize their potential and navigate high-stakes leadership challenges.

For more than 35 years, The Bailey Group’s success has been built upon our values of contributing to a greater cause, collaboration, continuous learning, fully invested partnership, maximizing human potential, and authenticity. Our philosophy blends strategic advisory with deep psychological insight, empowering clients to expand awareness, unlock potential, and drive transformative results.

We actively celebrate and support a diverse workplace to the benefit of our employees, clients, and the communities we serve. Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion ensures a more reflective, effective organization from the inside out.

The Bailey Group seeks strong, ethical leaders who demonstrate excellence across four critical dimensions:

·      Results Leadership – Takes initiative, owns outcomes, and thrives in the face of challenge. Demonstrates resilience under pressure and a bias for action that drives progress.

·      People Leadership – Builds trust through approachability and empathy. Balances listening with clear communication, and fosters employee engagement, productivity, and adult learning principles.

·      Thought Leadership – Thinks critically and objectively, distinguishing fact from opinion. Brings curiosity and openness while balancing short-term and long-term goals.

·      Self-Leadership – Understands one’s impact on others, recognizes personal strengths and growth areas, and models continuous learning and self-improvement.

Role Description

We are seeking a licensed psychologist to join and lead our Assessment & Behavioral and/ or Industrial / Organizational (I/O) Psychology Practice. This role is central to integrating evidence-based psychology, executive assessment, and applied behavioral science into our leadership and coaching engagements. As both a practitioner and thought leader, you will play a critical role in shaping the firm’s intellectual capital, delivering world-class assessments and interventions, and collaborating with fellow partners to grow the practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Practice Leadership
• Lead the design, delivery, and innovation of executive psychological assessments, 360 instruments, and evidence-based leadership evaluations.
• Represent and sustain the firm’s behavioral psychology practice as a premier, differentiated offering within the market. developing frameworks, publishing insights, and presenting at various events or industry conferences.
• Client Engagement
• Conduct advanced psychological, cognitive, and behavioral assessments for senior executives and other leaders.
• Translate assessment data into actionable insights that support coaching, succession planning, team effectiveness, and organizational design.
• Partner with both clients and coaching colleagues to inform high-impact interventions and leadership journeys.
• Collaboration and Business Development
• Collaborate with other partners on complex executive coaching and consulting projects, ensuring a fully integrated, white-glove service approach.
• Build and nurture client relationships and contribute to business development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Psychology or related field
• Licensed MN psychologist with expertise in psychological assessment, leadership evaluation, and applied behavioral science.
• 5 years of experience in executive coaching, assessment, or leadership consulting contexts with a significant portion of that time working with senior executives.
• Strong command of psychometrics and validated assessment methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to teach, counsel and lead others internally on assessments, processes, difficult coaching engagements or conflict resolution issues.
• Demonstrated ability to support the service delivery team by actively consulting on various engagements.
• Willingness to engage in business development, networking, client meetings and solution proposal activities.
• Commitment to work on an “as needed” basis for The Bailey Group.
• Enjoy working in a small business environment with growth aspirations.
• Highly professional and discreet; comfortable serving high-profile clients.
• Exceptional interpersonal acumen with the ability to influence and advise at the C-suite level.
• Balance of analytical rigor and creativity in tailoring behavioral insights to client needs.
• Highly collaborative with a growth-oriented, entrepreneurial spirit and flexible, adaptable mindset.

Preferred Qualifications

• Doctoral degree (Ph.D. or Psy.D.) in Industrial/Organizational, Clinical, Counseling Psychology, or related field from an accredited US institution.
• 10 years of experience in executive coaching, assessment, or leadership consulting contexts with a significant portion of that time working with senior executives.
• Hogan LFS certification or ability to obtain within 3 months of hire.
• Strong track record of thought leadership and/or published work within psychology and leadership development.
• Willingness to be a positive brand ambassador for The Bailey Group (TBG) through participation in public speaking, attendance at in-person events, publication of thought leadership articles, conducting webinars, workshops and participation in podcasts and other social media opportunities.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with the demonstrated ability to build and scale a high-end consulting practice.
• ·       Ability to establish an internal community of practice to strengthen the psychological acumen of our consultants.