Megan W.

Gorges
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EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology August 2012 – May 2016
University of California, Berkeley
• GPA: X.XX / 4.0
• Honors with Highest Distinction in General Scholarship and Honors in Psychology
• Psi Chi Member and Public Relations Chair at UC Berkeley, 2015-2016
• Phi Beta Kappa

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Lab Manager June 2019 – Present
Professor Jennifer Chatman at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
• Contribute to projects on the measurement of organizational culture, cultural tightness-
looseness in organizations, narcissism and exploitation, and awe in the workplace
• Develop hypotheses and prepare IRB protocols and pre-registration documents
• Design and administer experiments in the lab and on Amazon Mechanical Turk
• Program surveys in Qualtrics, including complex branching, timing, and validation
• Perform statistical analysis using SPSS and R, including factor analysis, reliability,
ANOVA, regression, and multi-level modeling
• Manage the portfolio of research projects and lead a team of 8 research assistants
Honors Thesis Student May 2015 – May 2016
Professor Dacher Keltner and Jia Wei Zhang at UC Berkeley Psychology
• Proposed design for a study to investigate if a shared experience of awe promotes
feelings of social connection between two strangers in a dyadic interaction
• Developed experimental protocol and managed a team of 12 research assistants to collect
in-lab data from 31 dyads
• Analyzed the data using R, including reliability analyses and ANOVA
• Presented findings at UC Berkeley Psychology undergraduate poster session
• Wrote thesis which received honors following faculty review

Undergraduate Researcher January 2014 – May 2016

Professor Cameron Anderson and Angus Hildreth at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
• Conducted literature reviews for research on status, power, trust, and loyalty
• Coordinated all logistics to run 40 sessions of a study on 200+ participants, including
developing the survey in Qualtrics, preparing physical materials, managing participant
scheduling and payment, and overseeing a team of research assistants to run sessions
• Used Excel to clean data and form measures of interest in preparation for analysis
Research Assistant October 2013 – January 2015
Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Research Clinic / Harvey Sleep Lab
• Conducted phone screen interviews to assess eligibility criteria for study on teen sleep
• Guided teen participants through overnight stays and collected melatonin samples
• Performed clinical follow-up interviews to measure treatment efficacy
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PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Program Manager June 2019 – Present
Berkeley Haas Culture Initiative
• Program Manager for the Berkeley Haas Culture Initiative co-directed by Professors
Jennifer Chatman and Sameer Srivastava, which connects academics and industry
executives to form a shared agenda for organizational culture research
• Plan and execute all logistics to hold a two-day conference for over 160 attendees
• Write and distribute newsletters to academic and corporate participants
• Manage and track the outreach and donation processes for corporate sponsors
Human Capital Consultant June 2016 – April 2019
Deloitte Consulting, San Francisco, CA
• Designed future state IT operating model for 3700+ employees; developed corresponding
leadership structure and role profiles for 12 VPs
• Created interactive learning experiences and resources to engage the top 80 executives of
a healthcare client in behaviors to promote a culture of equity, inclusion, and diversity
• Planned a leadership development program curriculum for 35 top performing Deloitte
managers; developed and delivered interactive workshops that helped participants chart
their path to partner and improve collaboration across accounts and business units
• Managed 4 offshore staff to develop training that enabled 24k+ end users to operate
effectively in newly implemented finance technology

RESEARCH PROJECTS
Undergraduate Honors Thesis:
Gorges, M. advised by Dacher Keltner and Jia Wei Zhang (2016). Awe as social glue? A
comparison of awe and amusement in dyadic interactions. UC Berkeley Psychology Department.

Research in Progress:
Chatman, J., Gelfand, M. Choi, A., Choi, V., and Gorges, M. The structure of culture: Lab and
field demonstrations of the relationship between tightness-looseness, culture strength, and culture
content (data collection).

Chatman, J., Li, Y., & Gorges, M., Narcissists exploit less qualified candidates who ingratiate
(data collection).

RESEARCH SKILLS
Statistics / Data Analysis: Fluency in SPSS and Excel; experience using R; data analysis
training from two courses: Research and Data Analysis for Psychology (Psych 101) and
Research Statistics Using R (Psych 102)
Survey Design: Qualtrics
Online Participant Management: Amazon Mechanical Turk; Turk Prime / Cloud Research
Public Speaking: Extensive experience developing and delivering professional presentations