Laurie Bassi, CEO
Dr. Laurie Bassi is
the CEO and a co-founder of McBassi & Company. She
is also Chair of the Board at Bassi Investments, Inc.
Laurie is one of the world’s leading authorities on the emerging “decision-science” of
human capital management—the processes and practices within an
organization that align the management and development of employees
with its business results. She loves working with clients to
help them improve organizational performance through targeted, effective
strategies for managing and developing their people.
She has overseen the development of the McBassi People Index®, a powerful tool for pinpointing and improving the unique
people-related drivers of an organization’s business results.
Prior to launching McBassi & Company, Laurie served as the director
of research for Saba Software and as vice president at the American
Society for Training and Development (ASTD). While at ASTD, she
created internationally recognized standards for measuring and valuing
firms' investments in education and training, and a core set of quantitative
indicators for measuring the effectiveness of knowledge management
initiatives. She has also served as the director of several U.S. government
commissions, and as a co-chair of the Board
on Testing and Assessment at the National Academy of Sciences. The early years of Laurie’s
career were spent as a tenured professor of economics and public policy
at Georgetown University.
Laurie has authored over 80 published papers and books, and is a sought-after speaker both domestically and internationally.
She holds a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University, a M.S. in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University, and a B.S. in mathematics from Illinois State University.
Click here for information on some of Laurie's recent presentations.