Christina Curnow

Managing Director, Human Capital Solutions

Christina Curnow has more than 20 years of experience consulting and conducting research related to workforce performance and engagement. Dr. Curnow's areas of expertise include job analysis and competency modeling, test development and validation, technology enabled learning, leader development and training, workforce analytics, employee engagement, and workforce planning. Her research skills include research design, survey development and implementation, focus groups, data analysis, technical and business writing and presentation.  

Dr. Curnow has worked with the U.S. Department of Defense throughout her entire career (Army, Airforce, Joint Forces, Office of Secretary for Defense). She also has extensive experience with federal civilian, state, and commercial clients. She has extensive people and project management experience including managing diverse teams of more than 120 people with backgrounds in, Industrial and Organizational psychology, cognitive psychology, workforce research statistics, instructional systems design, economics, experimental psychology, instructional technology and programming. 

Dr. Curnow’s work has been presented in books and peer-reviewed journals as well as at a variety of conferences.

 

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Expertise
Workforce
Human Capital

Ph.D., Industrial and Organizational Psychology, The George Washington University

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Related Work
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Why It's Necessary to Accurately Measure Employee Skills and How to Do It

05 Jan 2023
Organizations are moving to skills-based practices to broaden the talent pool and address shifts in work design fueled by the digital transformation. This more nimble and equitable practice raises the question, “How do we validate the skills a person has to make hiring, promotion, development, and compensation decisions and produce ...
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Spotlight on Equity in High-Stakes Professional Testing and Assessment

11 Oct 2022
Industry leaders across sectors have prioritized strategies that testing programs use to develop questions all test takers can understand. AIR has joined these leaders by considering diversity, equity, and inclusion at every step of test development, scoring, and administration in order to increase testing fairness and efficiency, advance equity, and ...
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Measuring Skills at Work: Lessons from the Field

One critical aspect in the implementation of skills-based practices is to be able to measure and track the skills that employees learn on the job. This report looks into the landscape of employer skill validation practices and the systems and tools that support them.
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Growing and Diversifying the Year Up Model

Year Up is a national nonprofit workforce development organization that has connected over 36,000 young adults ages 18 to 26, 90% of whom identify as a person of color, to livable wage careers at hundreds of top companies. AIR is partnering with Year Up to support, strategize, implement, and study ...

NCSL Occupational Licensing Consortium Case Study Reports

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With one in four jobs requiring an occupational license, licensing is one of the central factors that shapes employment opportunities for many workers. AIR has worked with the National Conference for State Legislatures and its partner organizations, the Council of State Governments and the National Governors Association's Center for Best ...
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Occupational Licensing: Balancing Public Safety and Work Opportunities

16 Nov 2020
With the COVID-19 crisis affecting the economy and employment, reducing barriers to work has become increasingly important, and changes to occupational licensing could pave the way for getting people back to work. In this video, AIR's Christina Curnow discusses what AIR has learned about occupational licensing through research and a ...
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Recommendations to Address the Nursing Shortage

14 Oct 2020
Similar to other countries, the U.S. has had a long running shortage of nurses. While the nursing shortage existed long before the COVID-19 pandemic, this crisis highlights the critical need for nurses in a healthcare system that is strained. In this white paper we offer recommendations and considerations for when ...

Practice Analysis for Certified Public Accountants

The CPA Exam is universally accepted by all 55 US state and territory boards of accountancy to support their licensing decisions. AIR recently helped the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants update their practice analysis of CPAs to reflect changes to the profession, with a focus on advancements in technology ...
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electrical training ALLIANCE

AIR works with the electrical training ALLIANCE’s apprenticeship program to conduct job analysis and implement and test apprentice selection procedures.

Job Description Update for Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority (MNAA)

Founded in 1970, the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority (MNAA) manages Nashville, Tennessee's airport systems. Because of its fast growing population, MNAA requested that AIR conduct a comprehensive review, analysis, and update of job descriptions be performed for its workforce of approximately 300 employees. ...

Development of a Competency-based Credentialing Exam for Human Resource Professionals

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has served human resources professionals for over 65 years. AIR developed the SHRM's competency-based credentialing program that focused on the knowledge and behaviors needed to succeed as mid- to senior-level HR professionals.

Local Transit Authority Job Analysis and Competency Architecture

AIR supported a local transit authority that has been in existence for over 50 years, providing nearly 300 million trips (rail and bus combined) per year and employing over 12,000 people. AIR conducted a comprehensive job analysis and generated competency models for jobs across the local transit authority. Overall, the ...