Jeffrey Akin

Jeffrey Akin is a Vice President with Booz Allen Hamilton. He leads the firm’s Strategic Human Capital Management business, which partners with both private and public sector clients to address their most challenging organization, leadership, and people issues. He works with federal government agencies and many of the Fortune 200 organizations to redefine and focus their organization strategy, manage through transformational change efforts, develop HR strategy, align people to meet changing business models, and create integrated resource planning models that allow organizations to focus limited capital on the acquisition and development of the talent needed to drive performance over time. Jeff has helped organizations accelerate their path to differentiated performance after mergers and acquisitions and organizational restructuring, develop multi-year workforce models, design and execute strategic candidate attraction and capture plans, and transform HR service delivery and overall value equations. This includes redesigning business processes; implementing and integrating multiple service delivery models (including shared services and HR BPO); designing and implementing effective governance structures, change management, and measurement. Jeff’s government clients include the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and several of its component agencies, and the Department of Justice (DOJ). His diverse private sector portfolio includes clients in the oil and gas, utilities, health, retail, hospitality, consumer products, and telecommunications industries. A recognized thought leader in the field of cyber workforce development, Jeff has worked with numerous organizations across the Department of Defense (DoD), the Intelligence Community, and DHS on how to more effectively scale their cyber workforce. Prior to joining Booz Allen, as a leader at Hewitt Associates, Jeff helped HR and line executives at some of the country’s top corporations more effectively organize, deliver, and engage with high performance HR functions. He led several HR transformation efforts that successfully achieved cost reductions while improving services over time. In so doing, his clients and their managers and employees obtained greater access to the information required to help them be successful through voice and web channels. He also helped his clients implement HR business partner models to improve the contextual relevance of HR services within line organizations. Through the centralization of data and introduction of reporting capabilities, helped his clients obtain the metrics needed to help their organizations more effectively incorporate human capital planning into the overall strategic planning of the business. Since 2010, he has been an instructor in the Change Management Advanced Practitioner (CMAP) Masters-level certificate program at Georgetown University. He is also an Executive Board Member for the Human Capital Institute. Jeff holds a B.S. degree in Finance from Bradley University, an MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University, and a Masters Certificate in Mergers and Acquisitions from the University of Chicago.