Barbara Rizzo

Head of Assess­ment Archi­tec­ture & Peo­ple Met­rics, Asso­ciate Part­ner

Assess­ment Archi­tec­ture

Peo­ple Met­rics

HR Strat­e­gy

HR Tech & Inno­va­tion

Diver­si­ty, Equi­ty & Inclu­sion


Ever since I was a child, I was always led by a deep long­ing to be use­ful and to light­en people’s path, mak­ing them see how valu­able they were and how much beau­ty was already inside them.

 

I ful­fill this need today with the same enthu­si­asm as I did then. At Glas­ford, as Asso­ciate Part­ner and Head of Assess­ment Archi­tec­ture & Peo­ple Met­rics, I stand along­side peo­ple and orga­ni­za­tions to help them to tune capa­bil­i­ties and know-how, expressed tal­ent and future poten­tial, enabling each per­son to express the best of him or her­self. I tack­le chal­lenges by always think­ing that there is a solu­tion to every­thing, and that if it has not yet been found, we need to take a more close and accu­rate analy­sis, look­ing at the data, at the num­bers, which help us as pre­dic­tors when ques­tioned in the right way, and engag­ing pro­fes­sion­als and col­leagues to ensure that the best exper­tise and answers will be grant­ed for clients.

 

My degree in Work and Orga­ni­za­tion­al Psy­chol­o­gy was fol­lowed by sev­er­al in-depth stud­ies in research method­ol­o­gy applied to psy­cho­met­rics and social sci­ences and I have, in addi­tion, com­plet­ed my train­ing with a four-year spe­cial­iza­tion in Cog­ni­tive-Con­struc­tivist Psy­chother­a­py. I have been work­ing for 24 years as an occu­pa­tion­al and orga­ni­za­tion­al psy­chol­o­gist, in a jour­ney of evo­lu­tion that has seen me oper­ate as a coach, train­er and also as a man­ag­er.

 

I have nev­er stopped study­ing and will­ing to under­stand the back­ground of things, to help orga­ni­za­tions bring their goals to life, to exper­i­ment and to under­take coura­geous oper­a­tions when need­ed, togeth­er with their peo­ple: there is no inno­va­tion, suc­cess or any kind of evo­lu­tion with­out peo­ple who are will­ing and able to do it. This is how I con­tribute and how I am part of our “to be evo­lu­tion­er.”