Mollie Berke

Mollie is an industrial-organizational psychologist with 15 years of experience helping organizations identify, assess, and develop leadership talent. She partners with Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies, as well as high-growth organizations, to shape talent strategy, guide succession planning, and inform high-stakes executive selection decisions.

Before joining Modern, Mollie served as Global Assessment & Selection Partner at Meta, where she helped build the company’s first Global Talent Assessment & Selection function. She led the design and implementation of large-scale, structured assessment programs and established the methodology, standards, and content used to evaluate leadership talent globally.

Previously, Mollie was an Assessment Consultant at Korn Ferry, advising clients on executive assessment, succession planning, and leadership development across healthcare, life sciences, financial services, and technology. She is known for translating complex data into clear, actionable insights and designing tailored competency models and success profiles that define effective leadership within an organization’s specific context.

Mollie is also a co-author of The Hiring Handbook: A Toolkit for Recruitment, Assessment and Selection Success, a practical, research-backed guide to building structured, fair, and effective hiring processes for hiring managers, recruiters, and business leaders.

Earlier in her career, she worked in people operations at luxury e-commerce company 1stdibs and in recruiting and consultant training at American Traveler Staffing, a travel nursing agency.

Mollie holds a master’s degree in industrial-organizational psychology from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Florida State University, where her research focused on decision-making and cognitive functioning.

Outside of work, Mollie enjoys gardening, exploring craft beer and wine, and strength training.