Fern Hernberg, President & CEO, brings more than 30 years of experience helping organizations navigate the people side of their business with clarity and care. Over the course of her career, she has held senior HR leadership roles across a range of industries, including at Deloitte and the USO, giving her a deep understanding of how people strategies need to flex in different organizational contexts.

In 2020, Fern launched her own HR consulting practice, Eagle HR, where she spent more than a decade partnering closely with leaders on talent management, culture, and workforce challenges. She later joined Brighter Strategies, an HR and organizational development consulting firm, where she served for nearly four years as Managing Director of People Strategy.

Fern’s work is grounded in the belief that effective talent management starts with trusted relationships. She is known for combining deep HR expertise with a highly personal, thoughtful approach — meeting leaders where they are and helping them move forward with confidence. With experience spanning the full spectrum of human resources — from legal compliance to employee engagement and everything in between — Fern helps organizations design people strategies and workplace cultures that elevate performance, strengthen retention, and improve outcomes.

Fern holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Delaware and a master’s degree in human resources from Loyola University Chicago. She is a certified facilitator for multiple training programs and assessment tools and has also shared her expertise through pro bono counseling and training with the Women’s Business Center of Northern Virginia. Based in the Washington, DC area, Fern enjoys spending time with her husband, two sons, and their very demanding dogs.