Lauren Sapp Named 2024 Thompson Center Top PIQ
Lauren Sapp (right) with her nominator, Thompson Center Health Professions Director Dr. Kerri Nowell
Congratulations to Lauren Sapp, the Thompson Center’s 2024 Top PIQ Award recipient! This annual award honors an employee who exemplifies the core values of professionalism, initiative, and quality in the workplace.
Lauren has worked at the Thompson Center since January 2021 and has recently been promoted to senior psychometrist. Lauren’s responsibilities include conducting psychological and neuropsychological testing for patient evaluations, training others on testing protocols, supervising graduate students, and managing testing supplies for the health professions division. Additionally, she is working with multiple research projects within the Thompson Center.
Lauren’s passion for our mission began when she was a registered behavior technician in Chicago and she worked with a 9-year-old boy who was diagnosed with autism and was nonverbal. After spending time with him and seeing all of the amazing skills he had, she fell in love with working with this population.
Here are some words from Lauren’s nominator:
- Lauren is an extraordinary team member and embodies our PIQ values to a consistently high degree.
- Lauren consistently goes above and beyond to ensure high quality psychometry services are performed including planning ahead with strategic foresight and proactive problem solving.
- Lauren’s professional attitude with her patients is always optimistic, exudes healthy curiosity, and creates a testing environment and experience for her patients to do their absolute best.
- Lauren is extremely thorough in teaching and training others.
- Her interactions with colleagues are consistently positive and she is skilled at asking questions and providing feedback in a way that fosters growth in others.
- Lauren has a personal passion for excellence, is always improving and quality checking herself, and shares her wisdom with others.
- Lauren is thoughtful about the needs of her teammates and ensures that clinics run smoothly and her teammates feel supported.
In sum, Lauren is an absolutely invaluable member of the Health Professions team and the Thompson Center. Her professionalism, initiative, and quality work impacts everyone in the center, whether they realize it or not. She truly is a top PIQ!
Lauren holding her Top PIQ award alongside other members of the Thompson Center Health Professions team