About LWS LLC
Landers Workforce Science LLC helps you understand or improve your assessments through psychometric evaluations and audits combining industrial psychology, HRM, and technology. Roughly half of our clients are vendors that have created AI- or other tech-enhanced assessments. The other half are organizations that are using AI-based assessments to hire people. We help you understand both the professional/psychometric and legal compliance contexts of your current assessments.
For over a decade, LWS LCC has provided psychometric development roadmaps and conducted independent audits of pre-hire assessments, especially those rely upon artificial intelligence. We have experience with assessments incorporating machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, games/gamification, and more.
If your general counsel is worried about your assessment’s legality, we can help you navigate these difficult waters. New York City’s Local Law 144 § 20-871 (AEDT) has a lot of lawyers nervous. California is cooking up some new rules too. Don’t tackle these audit challenges alone!
Audit Services Offered
We offer a range of auditing services starting with bare-bones compliance and psychometric validity audits, up through full service consulting on product development. We offer many services customized to your needs, including but not limited to:
- Externally-facing white papers and reports
- Internal developmental audits with recommendations related to accuracy, fairness and bias, and applicant reactions
- Recommendations related to both regulatory and litigation risk, given both current and pending law
Our primary values are scientific rigor, accuracy, and integrity. We will help you establish and build credibility for your approach as it deserves with a rigorous audit. And if your product needs some work, or if you’re just not yet ready for a full audit, we provide science-based advice on how to get to that point. Contact us to find out if we fit your project.
Past Clients
Our Expertise
The principal consultant at LWS LLC, Richard Landers, PhD., is also the John P. Campbell Distinguished Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology at the University of Minnesota. He is President-Elect (2025-2026) of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). He is a Fellow of SIOP, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science. Richard’s work across academia and practice focuses on the interdisciplinary intersection of psychology and computer science, including the development of published recommendations for conducting audits of AI. He has been invited to share his expertise with NAS, SIOP, APS, APA, EAWOP, METRO, Google, HCI, Target, and the DOD, among others in the United States, Europe, Australia, and South Africa, and he has conducted audits internationally.