Jamie Kohn is a Senior Director in Gartner’s HR practice, where she helps HR leaders transform talent acquisition to drive business performance in an increasingly constrained and fast-changing labor market. Her research focuses on elevating recruiting from a transactional function to a strategic capability. This includes operating model redesign, skills-based talent strategies, and more effective approaches to attraction, sourcing and assessment. Her guidance helps leaders connect labor market realities, internal talent dynamics and business priorities to make high-impact workforce decisions, drawing on her leadership of Gartner’s ongoing research on talent acquisition trends and labor market dynamics.
Ms. Kohn also brings a cross-functional perspective shaped by her work across talent management, corporate strategy and business model transformation, helping organizations more effectively identify, compete for and deploy talent.
Prior to joining Gartner, Ms. Kohn conducted research on leadership and team effectiveness, as well as quality improvement in healthcare, building deep expertise in the drivers of organizational performance. She has taught courses in organizational behavior, research methods, statistics and social psychology, bringing a strong foundation in behavioral science and data-driven analysis to her work.
Talent Acquisition for HR Professionals
Talent Acquisition
HR Transformation and AI-Ready Operating Model
HR Strategy and Management
HR Roles and Talent
Master of Science, Organizational Behavior, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Master of Science, Social Psychology, Texas A&M University
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, University of Kansas
Understanding how economic, social and technological trends impact recruiting
Designing a recruiting function that drives efficiency and strategic value
Transforming recruiters into talent advisors—upskilling, enablement and role design for the future
Tracking and communicating key shifts in the labor market
Expanding talent pipelines to support business growth