About Us

Inside Pinsight

Pinsight was founded in 2009 to make high-touch leadership assessments scalable, giving organizations and leaders across the world the opportunity to excel in talent management. Our mission is to bring fairness to leader selection, development, and succession by removing bias and leveling the playing field.

Our values are fairness, evidence, and potential. We treat people equally, without bias or discrimination. We make decisions based on data and scientific evidence. We believe that everyone has the potential to become a great leader.

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Why We’re Different

We’re proud to have created disruptive first-to-market leadership assessments and development solutions. We’ve combined the latest technology with behavioral science to meet the increasingly complex challenges of global corporations.

Live Role-Plays

Described by participants as immersive and enjoyable, our assessments include live role-plays. This allows them to interact with trained assessors, responding in real-time to scenarios they might encounter in their role.

Quick Turnaround

In just 72 hours, you can invite candidates, schedule and conduct assessments, and receive results. We are the fastest assessment center offering, with others averaging several weeks on the first step of scheduling.

Affordable Virtual Solutions

At a fraction of the cost of other assessments, our virtual assessment center solution also eliminates travel costs, enabling your participants to take the assessment when and where they need it.

Customizable

Easily customize the assessment and development solution to your competency model or leadership framework. Create custom views and reports for different audiences – for example, participants, hiring managers, or the HR team.

Innovative

The Pinsight platform utilizes behavioral science to continually refine our processes and simulations to provide our clients’ best-in-class data that they can use in their decision-making.

Integrated Solutions

Use the Pinsight platform across the leadership pipeline to bring insight, track progress, and measure development, ensuring all your selection and promotion decisions are backed by data and housed in one location.

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Our Global Presence

Our network of highly trained assessors in over 40 countries allows candidates to schedule their virtual assessment whenever and wherever works best for them.

Areas Serviced

Partner Office

Our assessments are provided in these languages:

Chinese

Portuguese

Dutch

Slovak

English

Spanish

French

Turkish

Japanese

Indonesian

Korean

German

The faces behind the insights

Leadership

Martin Lanik

Leadership Team

Fairness is Martin’s driving principle that is reflected in his life philosophy: the power and status that come with leadership roles should be awarded based on merit and not based on what people look like or where they come from. Martin has dedicated his career to creating solutions that help business leaders place the most capable people in leadership positions, where they can have the greatest positive impact on employees’ well-being, business performance, our communities, and the society at large. With a background in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Martin leads research and innovation for Pinsight. By combining his scientific mind with straightforward practicality and a relentless bias for action, his teams build the best talent solutions for the leaders of today and tomorrow.

Michelle Brown

Leadership Team

It’s Michelle’s unique blend of skills and passions that provide clients with certainty that they are being heard, being understood, and will have their talent problems solved. Michelle excels in her understanding of the needs of customers, in her ability to find solutions to any problem, and her genuine concern for others’, and joins Pinsight following successful careers as a clinical psychologist and management consultant. Michelle blends her experience in organizational development, business strategy, and talent management to deliver exceptional client experiences, from first contact to successful outcomes. She consistently provides the ‘voice of the customer’ to all our business decisions, ensuring our solutions are both effective and easy to implement, because she ensures our team is constantly listening to the needs of people, and people leaders around the world.

Brad Sather

Leadership Team

Brad excels at bridging the gap between the technical world and the strategic world. An executive with a long history of hands-on software and product development, Brad has focused the last 30 years of his career on creating a successful marriage between product development and technical teams. Brad joined Pinsight after a successful career that included serving as the Director of Technology at Axion Health and VP of Enterprise Architecture at Carasolva Inc. By providing a calming voice in the sometimes chaotic world of development and operations, and by stressing teamwork above all else, Brad has consistently achieved a balance of rhythm and momentum in the product development process.

Linda Hall

Leadership Team

Learning through all activities and encounters is something that Linda lives by. She brings this focus to her Pinsight role where she designs and develops online learning programs for assessors, clients and partners. Additionally, she guides and encourages Pinsight assessors to consistently deliver top-class assessment services, through their role-plays and scoring of participant simulations. Linda draws on her assessment, HR and counseling psychology skills to drive quality, set high assessment standards, ensure scoring consistency, manage the global biannual recertification of assessors, and build assessor engagement to ensure that participants are assessed by trained, professional, objective, and skilled assessors.