Northwestern MSLOC’s John McGonigle Named Finalist in SIOP Consulting Case Competition
The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) held their second annual Consulting Challenge Case Competition for graduate students in master’s and doctoral I-O programs, March 21-26, 2024. Current Northwestern MSLOC student John McGonigle participated in this year’s virtual competition, where he and his teammates were named finalists and ultimately placed 2nd out of 10 teams in the competition. In the video included with this post, John talks with MSLOC staff and faculty member Diane Knoepke about the experience, the profiles of student participants and judges, and why he recommends participation to anyone with the opportunity participate.
John summarized the experience, sharing, “This is five days to experience life as a consultant and work with incredibly smart people. For five days, your team is a consultancy. My group had two Doctoral students in I/O Psychology and a Master’s student in Organizational Development. And the group of judges was as impressive as the contestants.” This year’s judges, and clients, were from John Deere and included company executives and partners from firms, like Korn Ferry, who are current consultants to John Deere.
The competition, and the work of finalist teams, will be showcased at the 2024 SIOP Annual Conference, coming up April 17-20, 2024 in Chicago and online. MSLOC will also be represented at the event via a session entitled, “Research Incubator: Achieving Social Justice in Organizational Change,” presented by Northwestern MSLOC faculty members Kimberly Scott, Dorie Ellzey Blesoff, and Sonya Kaleel, alongside Yabome Gilpin-Jackson, Susan C. Guest, and Ranjani Iyengar. Their session will present highlights from four papers that “identify the demands, challenges, and potential opportunities in the study and practice of organizational change when I-O scholars and practitioners commit to the goal of achieving social justice through their work.”