Golbou Ghassemieh

golbou ghassemieh has 15 years of professional Human Resources management level experience. Her career began as a recruiter for a local executive search firm, and she also spent time consulting with small businesses while working on her Master’s thesis. She continued her career in the challenging retail industry as a HR Manager, and then, transitioned into the public sector HR at the County of Sonoma supporting 27 departments and over 4,000 employees. She served as the Recruitment & Classification Manager responsible for the employment division and then Assistant Director of Human Resources, overseeing multiple sub-divisions of County of Sonoma’s central HR Department, including EEO, Recruitment & Classification, Workforce Development, HRIS, Employee Retention & Engagement Programs, and other administrative functions. In July 2017 she took the senior HR leadership position for the City of Santa Rosa. golbou holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from U.C. Berkeley, a Master’s in Business Administration from Sonoma State, and several private and public sector HR certifications. She has been appearing as a lecturer at Sonoma State off and on since 2004.