Mike Sanders, PhD

Co-Founder

Dr. Sanders is a Founder of HRT and Adjunct Professor in the Psychology Department at North Carolina State University. Dr. Sanders has performed research and created products that address the full spectrum of personnel issues including special operation soldier leadership assessment and selection, training in leader development, and personnel attrition and retention evaluation. Dr. Sanders was instrumental in visioning and the development of the US Army Special Operation Command’s Adaptable Leader training and development program.

For over 16 years Dr. Sanders has provided consultative support to elite military units belonging to the US Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) and US Marine Corps. He has developed scenarios, exercises, and evaluation procedures and applied these assessment and training processes to Officers in the Special Forces Qualification Course and Special Mission Units. He assessed personnel for suitability for different missions within USASOC and provided assessment findings to senior leaders for personnel selection decisions.

Dr. Sanders holds a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Texas Tech University and has performed as an Industrial Organizational Psychologist in both commercial and military settings. His work has been used as a basis for policy decisions at all levels of the Army. Dr. Sanders has published over 100 papers, technical reports, and articles on the development of people.