Roger Kaufman, PhD, CPT​​

Professor emeritus, Florida State University, and has served as Distinguished Research Professor at the Sonora Institute of Technology (Mexico). He received ATD’s Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance award. Also, he is a past president, honorary member for life and Thomas Gilbert Award winner, all with the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), Kaufman has published 41 books and over 300 articles on strategic planning, performance improvement, quality management and continual improvement, needs assessment, management, and evaluation. He consults world-wide with public, private and NGO organizations, the most recent of which include the President and Minister of Tourism of Panama, the University of Puerto Rico, the Civil Service Commissions of Taiwan, and the Tze-Chain Foundation of Science and Technology, as well as the Korean Government. At Florida State he created the Center for Needs Assessment and Planning that did applied research and development. The literature often sites him as “the father of needs assessment.” The International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) has created the Roger Kaufman Award for Societal Impact. "This award recognizes the continuous achievement of measurable positive societal impact by an individual or organization." He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association as well as of the American Educational Research Association.