Our Firm
TWMason is an independent, full-service industrial and organizational psychology consulting firm specializing in talent management at the executive level. We promote business performance through the assessment, development, selection and succession of individual executives, as well as the assessment and development of their leadership teams.
Our Focus: Executive Performance, Not Competence
It’s easy to mistake executive competence for executive performance. But competence is merely the price of admission for senior leaders. Sustained performance at an elite level defines the difference between executive success and mediocrity. And elite performance is more than a sum of leadership competencies.
TWMason researches the unique performance requirements for every client with whom we work. We adapt to your requirements because you shouldn’t have to fit ours. The difference is noticeable:
TWMason researches the unique performance requirements for every client with whom we work. We adapt to your requirements because you shouldn’t have to fit ours. The difference is noticeable:
- Executives enjoy a more relevant, productive and timely development experience working with us.
- Senior leadership teams move more quickly toward focus and alignment as a result of our facilitation.
- Organizations get a better view of each candidate’s likelihood of success from our assessments.
- HR partners know what we’re doing, why we’re doing it, how long it will take and what it will cost.
Our Approach
TWMason offers an attractive combination of large-firm expertise and small-firm attention. We invest over the long term to understand your business from the inside and focus on the performance of your executives and senior leadership team in light of the business strategy you are pursuing.
Our consulting is practical, and our solutions are creative. We draw on the current state of the science of industrial and organizational psychology, tempered by our years of consulting experience. We stay up-to-date on current research and thought leadership in our profession.
Our consulting is practical, and our solutions are creative. We draw on the current state of the science of industrial and organizational psychology, tempered by our years of consulting experience. We stay up-to-date on current research and thought leadership in our profession.
Our Clients
We have consulted with Boards of Directors, CEOs, senior executives and HR officers in financial services, energy, manufacturing, technology, internet services, consumer goods, professional services, education and healthcare. We are pleased to have worked with all kinds of organizations, including large public corporations, founder-led private companies, and PE portfolio businesses.
Some clients needed a CEO succession plan in place quickly with clear recommendations for placing successors and developing elite performers. Others needed to bring individual executives together to develop a collaborative and productive leadership team.
We frequently have assessed internal and external candidates for pivotal roles, and then supported them through on-boarding and ongoing development.
We often have coached individual executives to improve their performance. Coaching can be especially useful in getting high potential successors to accelerate their readiness, including successor generations in family-owned businesses.
Increasingly, we have provided custom due diligence assessments of management teams preceding acquisitions or equity investments.
Some clients needed a CEO succession plan in place quickly with clear recommendations for placing successors and developing elite performers. Others needed to bring individual executives together to develop a collaborative and productive leadership team.
We frequently have assessed internal and external candidates for pivotal roles, and then supported them through on-boarding and ongoing development.
We often have coached individual executives to improve their performance. Coaching can be especially useful in getting high potential successors to accelerate their readiness, including successor generations in family-owned businesses.
Increasingly, we have provided custom due diligence assessments of management teams preceding acquisitions or equity investments.
Our Standards
We love what we do, and we want you to feel the same way about what we do, too! TWMason guarantees your satisfaction with our consulting. We take seriously the ethical standards of our profession (industrial and organizational psychology), as well as the importance of fair and transparent business practices.
Our advice and results are always independent of undue influence because we have no conflicting business interests in executive search, outplacement, temporary staffing or other professional services.
Our advice and results are always independent of undue influence because we have no conflicting business interests in executive search, outplacement, temporary staffing or other professional services.
Our Consultants
Thomas W. Mason, PhD is our principal consultant. Through Tom's extensive professional network, TWMason can assemble a flexible work force of some of the top consultants, assessors and coaches in the US and around the world. We readily work in collaboration with the other trusted advisors serving your organization.