Kathi Enderes, Ph.D.

Kathi Enderes, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President of Research at The Josh Bersin Company, where she leads research across HR, learning, talent, and HR technology. She has more than 20 years of experience across management consulting (IBM, PwC, EY) and industry talent leadership roles (McKesson, Kaiser Permanente), and most recently led talent and workforce research at Deloitte.

Success Isn't Knowing a Lot, It's Learning Fast

Kathi's research analyzing more than a billion career data points across six industries set out to test a common assumption: that the quality of an organization's skills catalog is what drives performance. The data said otherwise. What actually separated high performers wasn't how detailed or well-documented their skills frameworks were, but how quickly they developed, updated, and applied new skills, moving people between roles frequently and rewarding new ideas rather than filing them away. She summarizes the finding memorably: success today isn't knowing a lot, it's learning fast and adapting faster still. She holds a doctoral degree and a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Vienna, and has worked across Vienna, London, Spain, and now San Francisco.

Topics Kathi speaks on

• Why skill velocity matters more than skill catalog quality
• Systemic HR: moving beyond siloed HR functions
• Workforce resilience and business impact research
• HR technology strategy and solutions assessment
• How organizational effectiveness research is evolving with AI

Sessions with Achieve

Kathi is a featured presenter on the Achieve webcast "What Your HR Dashboards Miss: The Untapped Workforce Intelligence Driving Change" (December 11, 2025), presented in partnership with Workhuman alongside Jesse Harriott, Tom Libretto, and Meisha-ann Martin. In it, she brings The Josh Bersin Company's research perspective to the conversation about why traditional HR metrics fail to capture the workforce signals that actually predict performance and resilience.

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• Kathi Enderes, Ph.D., on LinkedIn
• The Josh Bersin Company

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