Helen Friedman is the CEO of Merit Analytics Group, which she founded as a woman-owned business in 2017 after over 30 years of working in HR consulting, which included global leadership for talent analytics consulting and technology services. Helen is a well-known thought leader, who has spoken regularly at national conferences and has been acknowledged in major media outlets, including The New York Times, Yahoo! Finance, CFO.com and the Journal of Organizational Excellence. She earned her B.A. in Mathematics at Haverford College and an MBA with highest honors at Columbia Business School in Finance and Management.