Helen Friedman

Helen Friedman is the CEO of Merit Analytics Group LLC, which she co-founded as a women-owned business in 2017 after more than 30 years of working in HR consulting. Her goal for the organization was to make people analytics accessible to all HR professionals — focusing on core skill-building and opportunities to embed evidence as a foundation for effective HR management through a knowledge-transfer-oriented support model. Her prior tenure has included global leadership for talent analytics consulting and technology services at one of the largest HR consulting firms, where she focused on developing intellectual capital, leading the most complex client engagements and tailoring technology solutions to meet unique client needs. Her work in the field of people analytics spans all major industries and work areas, including workforce planning and optimization, talent-related dashboards, labor market analysis, and predictive/prescriptive analytics. She is an established thought leader, who has spoken regularly at national conferences and has published extensively with credits in well-known media outlets, including The New York Times and the Journal of Organizational Excellence. Helen holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Haverford College and an M.B.A. with highest honors from Columbia Business School. She can be reached at [email protected].

Tackling turnover and other workforce analytics challenges

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