Holly Baxter, PhD

Holly C. Baxter is a research leader with over 30 years of experience designing and evaluating cognitively grounded training and human performance solutions across government, military, and commercial environments. She specializes in adult learning, human performance assessment, organizational development, knowledge management, leader development, and training, with deep expertise in cognitive and knowledge management assessment, behaviorally anchored rating scales, adaptive training solutions, and methods that accelerate expertise development. At CPG, Dr. Baxter serves as Director of Research & Development, where she leads the research staff and designs innovative training, assessment, and tacit knowledge capture and transfer solutions to enhance human performance in complex, high-stakes environments.  

Dr. Baxter has served as a senior advisor and consultant to organizations including the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank, the U.S. Army and Marine Corps, Harvard Business School, and numerous Fortune 100 companies. She has authored more than 50 articles, papers, and book chapters on cognitively based training solutions, human performance, assessment, and knowledge management, and is a frequent invited speaker and workshop leader on topics such as Cognitive Task Analysis, intuitive decision‑making, knowledge assessment, and leadership development. Dr. Baxter is a Certified Knowledge Management Professional and a Six Sigma Black Belt. She earned her PhD in Organizational Communication & Business Management from Indiana University.