About CKG 

Casey K. Gardiner is an applied psychologist. Her dual PhD in neuroscience and social psychology focused on designing and evaluating evidence-based interventions for health behavior change. Dr. Gardiner has worked in management consulting, academic research, digital health, and both enterprise and consumer technology. Across these settings, she has applied scientific expertise, analytical rigor, and practical problem-solving to address critical challenges that we all face in work and life, including: behavior change, organizational leadership, motivation, talent management, decision-making, and mental health. She is an alumna of Dartmouth College and McKinsey & Company, a nearly life-long New Englander, and a vegetable enthusiast.

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If you’re wondering what I mean when I use the term “applied psychologist”:

I am an applied psychologist. To me, this means: my life’s work is to take principles and evidence from scientific research in psychology and neuroscience and apply them in order to solve problems and help people. Primarily, those applications have been in health, business and technology, and individuals’ careers. 

In some parts of my career, my primary role has been to generate the scientific evidence that enables us to have “evidence-based” interventions and treatments. That is not my current day job, but I admire and appreciate scientists’ ongoing work to advance knowledge through research in psychology, neuroscience, behavioral medicine, and allied disciplines.

In other parts of my career, I’ve worked to bring the insights from the lab into the world. Since 2018, my day jobs have been in the business sphere, first in management consulting and now in technology. Across these settings, I’ve done work on a wide range of topics (e.g., motivation and performance at work, societal and public health, software product design and strategy, mental health in the workforce, talent retention, corporate strategy and business development), with a wide range of roles (researcher, project director, people manager, subject matter expert, coach, analyst, consultant, advisor, executive). In each setting, I’ve contributed and grown expertise in how people think, feel, and behave, in order to craft and execute more effective solutions for humans (whether customers, patients, community members, software users, or employees.)

I’ve supported individual people on journeys to change their health behaviors, cope with unexpected major change, and jumpstart, grow, or pivot their careers. I’ve also worked with CEOs and leaders of organizations of all sizes. I’ve worked on products that help billions of people and change interventions that touched dozens to tens of thousands. The through line in all of this work is a steadfast belief that by understanding and applying insights about how humans function, we can all behave better, feel better, and perform better. Sometimes, this requires an openness to change, but even that is changeable.

For a more fun, personal, and verbose narrative, read my change story.