Andrea Robb

Founder + CEO
Former HR leader at Airbnb, Lucasfilm, Autodesk

Summary of experience 

Andrea has been at the forefront of modern, unbiased talent redesign for 25 years through her work at Airbnb, Autodesk, Lucasfilm Ltd, and Levi Strauss & Co. Her work has been featured in the McKinsey & LeanIn.org’s Women in the Workplace report and The New York Times. She has collaborated with leading Stanford researchers, including the VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab and belonging expert Dr. Greg Walton.

As a visionary and a designer, she is known as an innovator in building, scaling, or transforming organizations. She also brings a strong business focus to increase value for the customers, employees, shareholders, and communities. Andrea believes data and stories are a knock-out combination to design and sustain vibrant organizations.

As the baby of six kids, she learned to operate as the runt of the litter – noticing patterns and figuring out how to get things done creatively with fewer resources. As serious as she is about getting things done, you can count on Andrea to make the work fun. Finally, as the mom of two kids, she is deadly serious about designing workplace norms that allow the next generation to flourish.

Andrea is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Harvard University. She recently served as a Board Director for the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan, and chaired the Executive Compensation Committee.

Related Experience

At Airbnb, pre-IPO, one of her roles was to lead IP readiness and to manage the overall HR budget. She also led a work activity analysis and operations review of tools, systems, and processes. 

  • Developed design for evolving our Employee Experience service model for the business and organizational design for the operational teams. Goals were to improve efficiency and effectiveness of our Talent teams. Identified need for - and designed - contingent worker program framework to manage the complete pipeline of talent for Airbnb. 

  • Result was trimming the HR budget from $130M to $90M.

At Autodesk, as the leader of all global centers-of-expertise in HR, she managed Talent Acquisition, Diversity + Inclusion, Culture + Engagement, Learning + Development, Organization Development, University Recruiting, Talent Brand, and Global Mobility.

  • Designed a Future of Work blueprint for the CEO's task force, which was one of three pillars (the other two were designed for upskilling workers of our customers and improving access to skill acquisition for the changing nature of work globally)

  • Designed and led a global Courage Sprint teaching psychological safety + belonging and a Decision Making leadership simulation, as part of the ambitious and inspiring Autodesk CultureCode transformation.