• Over 20 years of experience in designing HR systems to improve business results.
  • Experience in various industries allowing us to draw upon the most appropriate cutting-edge solutions to meet your needs.
  • A flexible approach—we can work in partnership with you as a member of your team or we can provide complete project management.
  • We deliver the experience, quality and service of a large consulting firm in a cost effective manner.

Edie Goldberg Ph.D—Biography

Edie Goldberg is the founder of E. L. Goldberg & Associates. She has specialized in talent management and organization effectiveness for over 20 years. She focuses her practice on designing HR systems to attract, engage, develop and retain employees. For example, she has:
  • Developed a performance management process that involved:
    • aligning the organizational goal setting process with the individual goal setting process to create clear line-of-sight with measurable results
    • identifying company-wide competencies that set new expectations for performance
    • designing a process that held individuals accountable for results and provided the needed training for managers to coach and develop their staff
    • creating a strong pay-for-performance linkage.
  • Created global leadership development programs designed to identify potential leadership talent and build bench strength for the future.  Programs included:
    • leadership assessments
    • individual coaching
    • action learning programs
    • developmental assessment centers
  • Designed career management processes for various organizations to help develop, retain and engage employees
  • Designed assessment processes (including competency-based interviewing, testing, 360-assessments, and assessment centers) to select and develop talent to meet the organizations needs.
  • Conducted an organization effectiveness audit to understand and execute changes needed in organization design to ensure the organization’s ability to achieve its strategic objectives
  • Designed new employee orientation programs to foster organizational commitment and accelerate productivity.  Program components included:
    • Facilitating integration in the organization thru new relationships and tools
    • building awareness regarding organization values
    • increasing product and services knowledge
    • introduction to performance management and new expectations
    • creating an understanding of career opportunities within the organization.
Before starting her own company, Edie worked for Towers Perrin as the Global Leader in Learning & Development, Career Management, & Succession Planning. During the last year with Towers Perrin she co-lead a company-wide initiative focusing on Talent Management which resulted in groundbreaking research on employee perceptions regarding what attracts and retains them as well as the development of a process to help companies attract, retain, and engage their workforce.

Prior to working for Towers Perrin Edie spent five and a half years as a business unit manager for another management consulting firm. She also worked for the Navy Personnel Research and Development Center in San Diego where she participated in some of the seminal Total Quality Management research in the U.S.

Edie has published research in the areas of test validation, test score banding, and future-oriented job analysis, and has presented numerous papers on developing core competencies, performance management, organization change, and total quality management. She earned her Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from the University of Albany, State University of New York, and her B.A. and M.S. from San Diego State University. She is a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the American Psychological Association, Human Resources Planning Society, and is the founder of the Bay Area Applied Psychologists. She currently sits on the board of the HR Strategy Forum, the California affiliate for HRPS.

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