Bahar Niakan is Managing Director at Intact Technology, providing strategic leadership to drive business opportunities, uncover areas for innovation and improvement, and support Intact’s customers and partners to help them be successful personally and organizationally. She brings 25 years of senior leadership experience in management and operations within the public and private sectors.

Prior to joining Intact, Bahar served as the Director of the US Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) Center for Leadership Development, where she led the strategy and execution of the US government’s premier development programs for the Federal executive, management, executive, and professional corps. In this role, she was responsible for the Federal Executive Institute, the Federal HR Institute, the Presidential Management Fellows program, OPM’s Management Development Centers, the Process & Performance Improvement Program, the Lab at OPM, and the USALearning Program.

Bahar also served as the Deputy Chief Human Capital Officer (Deputy CHCO) for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). There, she spearheaded transformational and strategic initiatives for all aspects of HHS HR and human capital management, with a focus on optimizing HR service delivery, modernizing HR Information Technology, and improving the employee performance and engagement culture at HHS. Previously, she also served as the Director of Management for the Health Resources and Services Administration at HHS; the Director of Management Policy for the HHS Office of the General Counsel; and the Director of HR Solutions in private industry, providing contract HR and operations support to multiple Federal agencies.

Bahar holds a bachelor’s degree in Comparative International Development from Johns Hopkins University.