Pearson Taps Winston-Salem Talent Management and Assessment Firm to Deliver Assessment Training Worldwide

Qualifying.org to offer certification training for Pearson’s Golden Personality Type Profiler assessment.

Winston-Salem, NC (HRMarketer/PRWeb) August 11, 2008 -- Qualifying.org®, Inc, a Winston-Salem-based talent management firm, today announced a strategic business alliance with Pearson to provide certification training to human resource specialists and consultants seeking to use Pearson talent assessment products for employee selection and development.

As the largest assessment provider in the world, we needed a training company with international reach and reputation to incorporate the Golden Personality Type Profiler and other talent assessment products

Qualifying.org®, Inc. President, Dr. Roger R. Pearman said, “Our world-wide alliance with Pearson will result in exponential growth over the next three years. Our shift to support Pearson’s Golden Personality Type Profiler over other popular personality type instruments represents a major opportunity for our business, and this relationship will spur our most significant growth in our ten year history. The value of bringing Pearson clients to our North Carolina training center will result in international exposure to our area and business community for thousands of clients from Asia, Europe, South America, and from all over the United States”.

“As the largest assessment provider in the world, we needed a training company with international reach and reputation to incorporate the Golden Personality Type Profiler and other talent assessment products,” said Nathan Green, General Manager, Talent Assessment business of Pearson. “We are excited to be working with Roger Pearman who is an award-winning researcher and best-selling author in the field of personality type. The Golden is among the most modern, updated, and development-oriented of all personality type instruments, and it is administered online through a single, web-based scoring protocol.”

About Qualifying.org®, Inc.

Qualifying.org®, Inc., a subsidiary of Leadership Performance Systems, Inc., represents five publishers of assessments and provides services for applying psychological tests for business purposes. The services delivered by the two companies are complementary in that Leadership Performance Systems focuses on strategy, organizational alignment, training and executive coaching and Qualifying.org® delivers the knowledge transfer in the form of certification programs which enable organizations to take ownership of development protocols.

About Pearson

The Talent Assessment business of Pearson develops and delivers assessments for employee selection and development that increase workforce performance. With more than 80 years of experience in the employee assessment field, Pearson offers award-winning products such as the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal and the Golden Personality Type Profiler, and has a growing global presence with offices in seven countries. Its clients include half of the Fortune 500, expanding small businesses, and all organizations that make identifying talent and unlocking employee potential a top priority. It is a part of Pearson (NYSE: PSO), the international media company. Pearson's other primary businesses include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group.

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