Yesenia Avila, M.P.S.

Senior Consultant, Team Leader

Yesenia Avila joined DCI Consulting Group as a graduate intern in April 2012. She has since remained with DCI and is now a Senior Consultant, Team Leader. Since joining DCI, Yesenia has utilized job analysis data to develop new job descriptions and has supported research projects related to employee selection, pay equity and EEO enforcement. Her primary focus is in assisting federal contractors and subcontractors with compliance assistance, such as preparing affirmative action plans, conducting pay equity compensation analyses, providing strategic audit advice, creating diversity and inclusion metrics, as well as training/developing recruitment and management teams. She has presented research at professional conferences on topics related to diversity and inclusion metrics, and compliance.

Additionally, Yesenia has worked with Senior and Principal Consultants on various projects focused on developing new selection systems, conducting job analyses, and performing test validation and validity generalization research. Yesenia earned a Master’s of Professional Studies (M.P.S.) in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Yesenia is a current member of several professional organizations including the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), the Washington Metro Industry Liaison Group (WMILG), the Personnel Testing Council Metropolitan Washington (PTCMW), and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).