Betsy Bosak, ED.D.
Betsy Bosak, ED.D. recently retired from Northrop Grumman after 26 years and now works with Spectrum Knowledge. When she joined TRW (acquired by Northrop Grumman in 2002) she was hired as a personnel researcher. Her role was to evaluate the impact of various personnel programs to determine if the program objectives were met. Since 1980 she has held a number of increasingly responsible human resource line and staff roles across the Space Technology sector in Redondo Beach, CA.
Her last position with the company was as Director of Diversity, EEO and Employee Relations for Northrop Grumman Space Technology, a 9500 person organization with locations at 7 sites throughout the country. In that role she was responsible for designing proactive diversity initiatives to meet the needs of the business, plus leading NGST’s diversity recruiting efforts and national awards process.
Currently she is providing human resources consulting for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to small enterprises through Spectrum Knowledge.
Prior to joining TRW Betsy completed her doctorate at UCLA and served on the faculty there as the principal investigator on a number of federally funded research studies where her nationally recognized work focused on racial attitudes, work-family balance, women in non-traditional careers and sex role stereotyping. She has over 20 publications based on her work.