Rebecca L. Ray, Ph.D.

Senior Vice President, Human Capital, The Conference Board

Rebecca Ray is senior vice president, human capital at The Conference Board and the leader of the Human Capital Practice. Human capital research at The Conference Board focuses on human capital analytics, labor markets, workforce readiness, strategic workforce planning, talent management, diversity and inclusion, human resources, and employee engagement. In addition to published research, related products and services at The Conference Board include peer-to-peer learning networks, conferences, webcasts, and experiential and other executive events.  She hosts the monthly Human Capital Watch™ webcast, which explores current issues, research and practitioner successes for the members of The Conference Board. She oversees the Human Capital Exchange™, a website that offers research and insights from The Conference Board, our knowledge partners, and human capital practitioners and created the Senior Fellows Program in human capital and works with some of the profession’s most acclaimed leaders to move us all forward. She is a frequent guest in business media (Bloomberg TV (Hong Kong and Europe) and Bloomberg Radio,  CNBC India), and her research, commentary, initiatives and the accomplishments  of her various teams have been featured in the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and South China Morning Post newspapers as well as Harvard Business Review, Chief Learning Officer, Leadership Excellence, Training, CIO, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Chief Executive Officer and Talent Management magazines. Ray was previously a senior executive responsible, at various times, for organizational learning, training, management and leadership development, employee engagement, performance management, executive assessment, coaching, organizational development, and succession planning at several marquis companies.   She taught at Oxford and New York Universities and led a consulting practice for many years, offering leadership assessment and development services to Fortune 500 companies and top-tier professional services firms. Ray was named "Chief Learning Officer of the Year" by Chief Learning Officer magazine, and one of the “Top 100 People in Leadership Development” by Warren Bennis’s Leadership Excellence magazine. She serves on the Advisory Boards for New York University’s Program in Higher Education/Business Education at The Steinhardt School of Education, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Executive Program in Work-Based Learning Leadership. Ray received her Ph.D. from New York University. She is the author of numerous articles and books, including her co-authored work, Measuring Leadership Development, published by McGraw-Hill in 2012.

Publications by Rebecca L. Ray, Ph.D.

Executive Action Report

• CEO Challenge Reflections: Human Capital Practitioners Respond
  12 September, 2012
• Human Capital Challenges in Asia-Pacific 2011-2013: Driving Employee Engagement with Communication and Work-Life Balance
  31 July, 2012
• Human Capital Challenges in Asia-Pacific, 2012–2013: Leadership Development and Succession Planning for the Global Leader
  18 June, 2012
• Human Capital Challenges in Asia-Pacific 2011-2013: Aligning Employee Learning and Development with Performance Management
  30 March, 2012
• Human Capital Challenges in Asia-Pacific 2011-2013: Strong Brands and Clear Career Paths Help Companies Run the Talent Race
  20 March, 2012
• Human Capital in Asia-Pacific, 2011-2013
  07 October, 2011
• CEO Challenge Reflections: Talent Matters
  07 October, 2011
• CEO Challenge Reflections: Social Media Goes to Work
  03 October, 2011

Human Capital in Review

• The Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Employee Engagement (Vol. 2, No. 1, 2013)
  22 April, 2013
• The Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Employee Engagement (Vol. 1, No. 3, 2012)
  05 November, 2012
• The Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Talent Management (Vol. 2, No. 2, 2012)
  29 August, 2012
• The Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Talent Management (Vol. 2, No. 1, 2012)
  27 June, 2012
• The Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Diversity & Inclusion (Vol. 2, No. 2, 2012)
  09 May, 2012

Research Report

• Employee Engagement: What Works Now?
  17 December, 2012
• Human Capital Analytics: A Primer
  06 November, 2012
• The State of Human Capital 2012: False Summit
  15 October, 2012
• Job Satisfaction: 2012 Edition
  26 June, 2012
• Employee Engagement in a VUCA World: A Review of Current Research and Its Implications
  12 July, 2011