About Jake

Jake Vassello is a Sr. Manager of Talent, Training, and Engagement with an MS in Industrial-Organizational Psychology. He's led people programs at Microsoft (Activision) and Refuel Operating Company, spanning corporate talent strategy, people analytics, and manager development across hundreds of locations.

This site exists because of a gap he sits in every day. The research behind good management has existed for decades. It just stays locked in journals, behind paywalls, forty pages long when a manager needed one. Everything here is the fix: one page per tool, plain language, evidence underneath, and a shortcut version at the bottom because the smallest version that works is the version that gets used.

If your organization needs more than a download, see working together, or email jvass001@gmail.com.