Meet the Indigo Assessment team

Julie is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist with 20 years experience in helping businesses to develop their people. She has an impressive track record of delivering high quality assessment and development interventions at all employee and managerial levels. She has worked as a senior manager and consultant using business psychology and assessment centre methodologies to support leadership development, talent management, restructuring activities and organisational development. Julie is valued by her clients for her collaborative and solution-focused approach.

Prior to working with Indigo, Julie worked for Royal Mail as a senior manager where she led a national team of occupational psychologists in supporting strategic HR projects and providing assessment and development services to internal clients. Prior to that she worked as a senior consultant for a specialist Occupational Psychology consultancy specialising in assessment, the evaluation of major change programmes, and the development of innovative technology based selection systems.

Julie achieved Chartered Occupational Psychologist status in 1991 and has a BSc (Hons) and Masters Degree in Occupational Psychology. She uses a range of high quality psychometrics and is a co-author of the first British Psychological Society Review of Psychometric Tests. She also practices and is trained in cognitive behavioural coaching.

Throughout my career I've always recognised the assessments I carry out have a huge impact on the lives of the people I assess. I enjoy creating an environment for a candidate which is relaxed and friendly and where they can be themselves. This helps them to showcase what they can do and helps organisations to get a better understanding of their capabilities.

I'm really passionate about providing accurate assessments that help individuals and organisations make the best quality decisions regarding career progression and development. Getting that balance of achieving pragmatic quality solutions based on my in depth experience of assessment technology is what it's all about for me.

I really enjoy the depth of understanding you get from combining simulations with psychometrics. Unlocking potential and seeing the light bulbs switch on as you improve the match between people and work is so rewarding.

I've always enjoyed being able to adapt my approach to assessment to suit the needs of a particular client or project. I think the key to making an assessment work really well is to keep things practical and straightforward. Clients and candidates both appreciate that.

I love getting 'under the skin' of candidates - really understanding 'what makes them tick' and the extent to which that matches what my client is looking for. Using objective assessment techniques helps me ensure that I make accurate judgements so that we get the right fit of candidate to job.

The area of assessment has always been shrouded in mystery which can be frustrating for clients. I believe that there are easier ways to do things and that's what we aim for at Indigo Assessment.