Maria Lytell is a senior behavioral scientist at RAND. Her work focuses on military personnel topics with recent examples including skills management in the U.S. Air Force, retention of racial and ethnic minority soldiers in the U.S. Army, and staffing requirements for select Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security workforces. She previously served as Associate Director of the Personnel, Training, and Health Program in the RAND Arroyo Center and as a member on The National Academies of Sciences' Committee on the Consideration of Generational Issues in Workforce Management and Employment Practices. Before coming to RAND, her research and consulting experiences focused on topics such as sexual harassment, workplace mistreatment, organizational climate, and personnel selection. She received her master's degree and Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
