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Matt Barney (Born July 5, 1969) is the vice president and director of the Infosys Leadership Institute. He is best known for his work with evidence-based leadership, technological innovations related to human resources and Rasch Measurement, a form of psychometrics.

He was born in Madison, Wisconsin and raised with adopted African-American sisters, Heather (Barney) Davis and Alicon (Barney) Bradshaw; and brother Robert Barney. His mother, Dr. Karen Barney is the Chair of the Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy program at St. Louis University; and his father, Steven Barney, is the SVP-HR SSM Healthcare and Interim Regional President, SSM Wisconsin.

He started teaching Tae Kwon Do in 1979, after achieving his First degree black belt, and later a second degree in 1984. He began working as an entrepreneur at age 12, with a babysitting business. He holds a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1991), and a Masters (1993) and Ph.D. (1996) in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Tulsa, where he was the first Ph.D. student of Charmine Hartel. Once ABD, he did an internship with Intel Corporation in 1995 before joining AT&T Microelectronics. While at AT&T, it turned into Lucent Technologies where he launched new corporate universities in Orlando, Florida (USA); Bangkok (Thailand), and Singaore. While at Lucent Technologies, he authored patents related to Quasi-Automated Job Analysis, Unobtrusive Assessment, and. In 2009, he moved to Mysore, India to run the Infosys Leadership Institute.