THE AUTHORS
Professor Peter Saville
Professor Peter Saville BA, MPhil, PhD, FBPsS, C.Psychol, FRSA was Chief Psychologist at the Test Division of the National Foundation for Educational Research by the age of 27. He was Founder and Chairman of SHL and created the Occupational Personality Questionnaire®, which was seen as the foremost personality assessment for many years. In 2001 Peter was voted one of Britain's top ten psychologists, the only industrial psychologist listed. In 1998 he was nominated as one of the UK's top entrepreneurs. His portrait hung in the National Gallery in London, after he was awarded the British Psychological Society Centenary Award for Distinguished Contributions to Professional Psychology. He has published over 200 papers, books, questionnaires and keynote speeches, as well as having been interviewed on radio and television around the world. Peter has consulted with many of the FTSE and Fortune 100 companies, as well as public bodies and the United Nations. Now International Chairman at Saville Consulting and visiting professor at Kingston Business School, he continues to research valid and improved ways to measure workplace performance.
Tom Hopton
Tom Hopton BA Oxon is a consultant at Saville Consulting who graduated from Oxford University as an Experimental Psychologist. Working in the research and development of various psychometric instruments, he recently co-ordinated a major validation study of personality questionnaires. A swimmer once ranked second in the British Isles, Tom is interested in the psychology of high performance and is currently researching the personality, talents and motivations of elite sportspeople, entrepreneurs and other well-known individuals.
