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Katelyn McCoy, MA

Senior Applied Research Associate

Current Role

As a Senior Applied Research Associate, Katelyn McCoy designs and manages data collection tools for the evaluation of coaching and licensing products, like CCL Passport™. She also partners with our clients to conduct organizational research that boosts the impact of their leadership development initiatives and informs innovation at CCL and in the field. In her role, she often works cross-functionally, bringing together our expert designers, facilitators, coaches, operations managers, innovators, and leaders to enhance the efficacy and relevance of our leadership development offerings for leaders across the globe.

Experience

Katelyn’s expertise is in conducting research in organizations to address business needs. She has extensive experience in workforce data analytics, particularly in the areas of program evaluation, job analysis, and assessment development, and is an active member of the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology. At CCL, she has spent significant time partnering with the executive coaching line of business to reimagine how we deploy, evaluate, and scale coaching in organizations for greater impact.

Prior to joining us, she worked as a Research Scientist at the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO), where she partnered with clients to develop large-scale assessment solutions for use in higher education, employee selection, and certification. She also has experience studying leader behaviors that impact organizational resilience for the US Army, and investigating complex, large-scale collaboration efforts across a wide range of work environments.

Educational Background

Katelyn has an MA in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from George Mason University and a BS in Psychology from Louisiana State University.

Areas of Expertise

Assessments Evaluation
  • Industrial-Organizational Psychology
  • Organizational Research
  • Psychometric Assessments

More About Katelyn

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Insights From Katelyn

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Research From Katelyn

This research examines leadership challenges in coordinating multiteam systems during polycrisis scenarios, identifying critical competencies and structural mechanisms for empowering leaders to successfully coordinate complex multiteam responses.
Discover what happened when we pitted GPT4 against human experts to analyze 6,000 coaching comments: AI offers speed, but strategic human-in-the-loop guidance is necessary to ensure nuanced, accurate, and efficient text analysis.

Katelyn in the News

CCL researchers presented on several topics at this year's Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) annual conference.