Our Team

Andy Parkinson

Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder

Andy is an accomplished entrepreneur and serves as Chief Executive Officer of Envisia Learning. He provides the company's strategic vision/leadership, directs finance, operations, and technology, and manages all director-level staff.

A prodigy who began his professional career at an early age, Andy has over fifteen years of experience in directing entrepreneurial companies providing technology solutions to the business sector. In 1996, he founded Chromatic Concepts, Inc., a company that specializes in the development of client-server applications. During his tenure there, he personally guided the company's growth, managed the company to year-over-year profitability.

Andy has designed proprietary learning management, CRM, accounting and human resources survey, assessment and scoring software systems being used internationally today.

Andy attended the University of California, Los Angeles and previously founded Chromatic Concepts, Inc. where he and his team developed custom, web-based applications for companies across a variety of industries.

Vicki O'Brien

Director, Client Success

Vicki oversees Client Success for Envisia Learning and is located in Florida from where she manages Relationship Management, Project Coordination, and Project Support internationally. She has over 15 years of experience working in key account management, operations, consulting, marketing, product development and content development.

Vicki’s background includes private practice as a mental health counsellor/marriage and family therapist, director of Case Management for a large Community Mental Health organization, and health and executive coaching. Vicki was also Director of Utilization Management for a Managed Behavioral Health Organization and brings this wide variety of experience in both business and behavioral health to her work at Envisia Learning.

Vicki has her MS in Clinical Psychology from the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

Matt Pocock

Managing Director, UK

Matt has nearly 20 years’ experience in working within the testing and assessment arena covering individual, team and organizational assessments, with specific expertise in the areas of 360 degree feedback, psychometric testing, organizational surveys and bespoke assessment development.

Matt was formerly Managing Director for ConsultingTools (later re-launched as Synermetric) a company which he helped form in 2001 and one that acted as a long standing strategic partner and global distributor for the Envisia Learning product set until Envisia Learning acquired that part of the business from ConsultingTools in 2014.

Matt is responsible for providing strategic leadership and product and marketing insight at a global level, works with clients on more complex bespoke development projects and manages the UK and International operations side of the business from our office in Cambridge (UK).

He’s worked with and supported organizations internationally on wide ranging projects delivering either standalone assessments or integrated solutions covering a range of industries with projects ranging in size from a single participant to projects with thousands of people running in multiple countries in different languages and continues to work closely with a number of clients delivering large scale projects.

Matt has a BA (Hons.) Degree in Marketing and Information Technology.

Ken Nowack

Chief Research Officer, Co-Founder

Dr. Ken Nowack is a licensed psychologist (PSY 13758) and President & Chief Research Officer of Envisia Learning. He provides strategic vision/leadership, conceptual product design and development, research, public relations, and advanced client relations.

Ken has over thirty years of experience in the development and validation of human resource systems, assessment tools, organizational climate surveys, questionnaires, simulations, and tests. He has developed 360° feedback systems, assessment centers, employee selection, succession planning, performance appraisal, and management development training programs for a number of clients in the public, private and not for profit sectors.

Ken has conducted research and published extensively in the areas of 360-degree feedback systems, health psychology, survey research, training evaluation, assessment and personnel testing. He has also authored numerous assessment instruments and interactive software programs.

Dr. Nowack is an active participant in professional associations and has made numerous presentations to both national and local association conferences and community groups.

His active association memberships include:

• American Psychological Association
• California Psychological Association
• Society of Consulting Psychology
• Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
• American Society of Training and Development
• Personnel Testing Council of Southern California
• Society of Human Resource Management
• Society for Behavioral Medicine

Ken also serves as Chief Learning Officer of Organizational Performance Dimensions and is a member of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Educational Psychology at the University of California, Davis, and his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles where he is a lecturer at the Anderson School of Management. Ken also serves as Associate Editor (APA Division 13) of Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research.