Kasey Harboe Guentert, Ph.D. 

Talent Management Consultant

ph: 415-272-1474 email: kaseyharboe@gmail.com, San Francisco, CA  (open to travel)

25-year cross-industry assessment, leadership development, coaching, and HR program consulting experience with focus on life sciences, tech, finance, manufacturing, healthcare and call centers. Leading analytics to drive insight and change in best practices, engagement, and performance. Job analysis/profiling, competency design, analytics and insights, assessment delivery, assessment center design, assessment validation, and program evaluation, including validity, adverse impact. Expert in bias-minimizing measurement and build/implementation of legally defensible human resources processes. 

Work experience

APT Metrics, Executive Consultant, 2023-Present. Partnered with client organizations to translate organizational strategy into talent systems, including role design, career pathways, and leadership capability models, led job architecture and job evaluation initiatives, designing scalable role frameworks, leveling structures, and governance processes that align talent strategy with business objectives, advised senior leaders and HR executives on organizational design, workforce structure, and facilitated leadership development programs focused on executive capability, strategic thinking, and leading through organizational change.

Use data-driven insights and assessment methodologies to support evidence-based leadership and talent decisions.

Airbnb, Head of Global Assessment, Selection & Measurement, 2020-2023. Drove research to increase DEI, built engineering, data science, call ctrs, and foundational assessments, job profiles, competency designs, & interview libraries. Designed and measured effectiveness of performance management and talent reviews. Conducted EEOC compliance audits and assessment validations through content validity/job analysis and concurrent validity studies.

Meta, Global Talent Selection Manager (People Analytics), 2018-2020. Analyzed outcomes from and built engineering, data science, customer support, trust and policy team assessments & global interview library. Conducted job profiling, competency design. Conducted EEOC compliance audits. Led assessment validations through content validity/job analysis.

Korn Ferry, Principal Consultant, 2011-2018. Lead large scale selection, hi-po, and M&A projects with clients, managing staff and delivery. Built consulting standards for Assessment & Selection consulting staff. Built talent reviews, success/job profiles, simulations/assessment centers, leadership development and analyzed metrics. Conducted assessment validations through content validity/job analysis.

SHL, Managing Consultant, Head of Training, 2004-2011. Developed and delivered customized competency models and HR strategies for recruitment and performance management. Designed competencies, recruitment, and assessment and selection process. Performed assessment validations through content validity/job analysis, focus on RIF/restructures.

ACT, Inc. Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 2002-2004. EEOC audits and guidance to internal and external stakeholders. Built performance management systems, change management, and selection system strategies, managed client projects in high volume assessments, job analysis, training, and performance management. Conducted assessment validations through content validity/job analysis, focused on RIF/restructures.

Verizon Communications, Assessment and Selection Consultant, 2001-2002. Built employee selection procedures (interviews, tests and role play exercises, selecting/managing vendors). Audited assessment processes for EEOC Compliance during Verizon’s RIF. 

Education, Certifications & Activities

Many large personality, values, and ability assessment certifications.

California School of Professional Psychology/(now Alliant International University), Ph.D., Industrial-Organizational Psychology, San Diego, CA, 2003 

The University of California, BS in Psychology, with honors, Santa Cruz, CA, 1996 

Member of SIOP (Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology), Chair of CAPE (Committee for the Advancement of Professional Ethics), & SHRM

Foreign languages: German & French