Josh Bersin

I am an industry analyst, researcher, educator, and technology analyst covering all aspects of corporate HR, training, talent management, recruiting, leadership, and workplace technology.

I was the founder of Bersin & Associates, which then became Bersin by Deloitte. Since leaving Deloitte in 2018 I now lead The Josh Bersin Company and The Josh Bersin Academy, the world's professional development destination for HR.

I am a keynote speaker and advise HR teams and vendors in the HR space, and also serve as an educator, thought leader, and personal coach to HR and business leaders around the world.  

My professional goal is to make work life better around the world by helping HR professionals and teams learn, stay informed, and develop deep expertise on world-leading practices that help their companies.

I spend my time studying the world of work, HR, and all aspects of workplace technology. I advise vendors and large corporations on their products, HR and leadership strategies, and workplace technology solutions. And I am the Dean of the Josh Bersin Academy.

You can read more at http://www.joshbersin.com and https://bersinacademy.com

Founder and Dean

The Josh Bersin Academy is the world's professional development academy for HR. Our mission is to continuously provide up to date, future-focused education, certificate programs, resources, and connections to HR professionals and their teams around the world. Join us!

HubSpot

Director, Talent Management

LinkedIn

Within the Talent organization, I led a Center of Excellence team accountable for global career development and implementing a Talent Architecture across the enterprise. My team’s charter was to implement a core Talent Architecture to enable our skills-based strategy focused on connecting people to people, people to learning and people to roles. Scope is for 18,000+ employees globally. Our impact and focus was on creating greater awareness of skills required to drive our organization forward and career mobility opportunities for all internal employees.

Director, Career Development

Led an early career rotation program to acquire and develop emerging talent for our high-growth sales organization. Created a talent attraction and acquisition strategy to onboard over 100+ new hires annually. Designed and delivered a global enablement program and adaptive set of career development pathways for talent to join different areas growing across the business.

Director, Business Leadership Program

Served as a Chief of Staff and trusted business partner to the Managing Director of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Led operational and strategic programs, like opening our Berlin office and scaling GDPR globally, to increase sales and improve efficiencies for a global sales workforce. Known for developing deep partnerships and fostering collaboration across all lines of business to scale sales through our go-to-market strategies, technologies, and processes.

Head of Sales Productivity, EMEA

Led the performance and employee development for our Marketing Solutions EMEA business. Transformed our leadership development strategy, delivered just-in-time product development and advised our sales leaders across 7 countries. Fostered a culture of learning and coaching and embedded new technologies to help our global teams upskill.

Senior Sales Performance Consultant, Sales Readiness

The Conference Board

Served as a thought leader by sharing career strategies to help other career leaders optimize talent to meet both personal and organizational goals. In today’s competitive work environment, growth and development are paramount for the attraction, retention, and engagement of employees.

Career Strategy Council Member

Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP)

Served on the Executive Board and advised on our annual strategy and investment areas. Served as our 'Chief People Officer' to attract, engage and retain 10,000+ SIOP members. Led the day to day operations of 5 Committees, 10 Leaders, and 350+ volunteers.

Executive Board, Membership Services Portfolio Officer

Led the Membership and talent strategy. Managed a team of 50+ volunteers focused on critical initiatives to attract, select, engage, and retain our members.

Chair, Membership Committee

Served as an Editorial Board Member of the TIP column and columnist for The Modern App. The column focused on the application of modern technology and social media in the workplace.  http://www.siop.org/tip/

Editorial Board Member & Columnist

Created the SIOP Content Marketing Initiative (SCi) Task Force to elevate SIOP’s Conference content. Presented research before, during, and after our annual event through SIOP social media channels by providing visibility and translation to outside communities and within SIOP.

Task Force Lead, Content Marketing Initiative

Strategically defined, designed, and executed our social media strategy to amplify our field's research and practices.

Subcommittee Chair, Social Media, Electronics Communication Committee (ECC)

LDP Connect

Served as an early career thought leader on the LDP Enterprise Council to advise on strategic issues related to emerging talent development.

Enterprise Council Member

Psychology for Business

Founded the Psychology for Business to bring together diverse professionals from fields such as marketing, change management, people development, learning, media & communications, and general business.  Created an open community of people who wanted to learn and leverage the benefits of evidence-based psychology for the betterment of business.

Co-Founder

Google via Adecco

Lead business impact analyses for large-scale global programs and consulted leadership on novel approaches for assessing training impacts against global business objectives. Managed learning evaluation-related efforts for internal high-reach training such as onboarding, sales skills and coaching activities. Designed a learning taxonomy for adaptive learning pathways and leveraging data analytics (quantitative and qualitative) to evaluate training effectiveness.

Evaluation Project Manager

Aptima, Inc.

Served as a project manager, business developer and individual contributor. Designed new technologies with an interoperable performance assessment capability. Leveraged adaptive training methods to enhance the training lifecycle for end users. Applied social and cognitive science to produce new technologies. Designed, developed and delivered instructor-led training events for intelligence communities. Attended and presented at national conferences to highlight research findings, products, and service offerings for the government and commercial sector.

Industrial-Organizational Scientist

TiER 1 Performance Solutions

Led a variety of external projects for the commercial sector and military as well as spearheaded internal talent development initiatives. Managed Small Business Innovative Research grants (SBIRs – Phase I and II) for the U. S. Air Force,  National Science Foundation, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Led learner-centered initiatives like instructional design, communication, and branding activities. Leveraged cutting-edge instructional design software to develop training products. Assisted with business development including capture meetings, proposal writing, and conference presentations.

Associate Consultant

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

Research Associate

I've centered my career around one mission — to design innovative talent strategies that develop human potential at scale. What drives me every day is the ability to strengthen talent management practices, lead skills-based strategies that democratize career mobility, and unlock skills of the future for an organization and employees. 

With a background in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, and experience working across Fortune 500 companies, I see a new future where we can create more inclusive strategies to grow and develop our talent towards changing business needs.

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