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Korn Ferry
Business Advisors. Career Makers.
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Korn Ferry. Business Advisors. Career Makers. Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm. We work with our clients to design optimal organization structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people.

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1,001-5,000

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ConsultingDigital Solutions

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Africa, Asia, Europe, Latam, Middle East, North America, Oceania

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Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States Of America, Venezuela, Vietnam

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1943

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Public Company

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About Us

Powering Performance Through People

Korn Ferry is a global consulting firm that powers performance. We unlock the potential in your people and unleash transformation across your business—synchronizing strategy, operations, and talent to accelerate performance, fuel growth, and inspire a legacy of change. That's why the world's most forward-thinking companies across every major industry turn to us—for a shared commitment to lasting impact and the bold ambition to Be More Than. Our organizational consulting services target the most critical challenges facing global businesses today: attracting, developing, motivating and retaining talent, as well as creating the right structures to support that talent. Our deep expertise spans the talent function from end-to-end. We help businesses develop comprehensive, effective strategies that improve their organizational structures, create attractive rewards and benefits packages, build thoughtful assessment and succession programs and develop current talent and future leaders. In sum, we help you unleash the power of your people to close the Potential Gap: the difference between where you are now and where you need to be to achieve sustainable growth.

Who we are

One Team, One Vision, One Passion

We focus on making Korn Ferry a firm that energizes, develops, rewards, and empowers people to thrive and help our clients and our business succeed. It is a priority for us to hire, develop, and advance the best talent from various backgrounds, cultures, and experiences with equal opportunity across the firm. Our diverse team of business leaders, psychologists, economists and cognitive and behavioral scientists will help your organization perform and transform. One team. One vision. One passion – the powerful potential of people.

What we do

Aligning Strategy, Structure, and People

We work with our clients to design optimal organization structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people and advise them on how to reward and motivate their workforce while developing professionals as they navigate and advance their careers. With specialized expertise in over 50 areas, the types of businesses we serve are as diverse as the range of services we offer. We help you build end-to-end strategic solutions that align your structure, people and business processes and workflows.

Our Purpose

Helping People and Organizations Exceed Their Potential

In our role as a leading organizational consultancy, Korn Ferry continues to pursue our purpose of helping people and organizations exceed their potential. We believe in the impact of human potential. Potential is what drives us forward. Makes us smarter. Better. Kinder. It changes minds. It changes lives. Takes us to impossible places. Knocks down walls. Breaks glass ceilings.

Our Values

Our Core Values Guide Everything We Do

At Korn Ferry, our commitment to acting ethically begins with each of us and is embedded in our core values, which are designed to guide the way we work together and with others. We believe that genuinely connecting with others can only be done by removing the professional façade. Being true. Being you. Being honest. Always. We embrace people with different points of view, from all backgrounds. And we think and work as one team. We say what we mean and do what we say. Our core values are Inclusion, Honesty, Knowledge, and Performance.

Why working with us

The World's Most Forward-Thinking Companies Choose Us

We work with 96% of Fortune's top 50 world's most admired companies. Three in every four of Fortune's best companies to work for are Korn Ferry clients. We work with 80% of the Drucker Institute's top performing companies. It's not just the biggest and best-known organizations that choose to partner with us. It's those that are growing fast and performing best. What links these many different companies? They all recognize the value of talent and investing in people and change. We have more than 50 years of enabling people and organizations to exceed their potential.

Sustainability

Leading with Environmental and Social Responsibility

We view our focus on environmental sustainability, social responsibility, and good governance as an important consideration in our business. Sustainability means that you're a curator of everything, from your people to your customers to society at large. That means sustainability has to permeate everything you do. We've helped organizations on a transformational journey, building the leadership, talent, policies and culture needed to support ESG strategies—from net neutral carbon and other climate programs to diversity and inclusion initiatives and digital solutions. We help you build a disruptive sustainability function that's ready to focus the business on an environmental and social agenda, shifting your operating model and ways of working to deliver a competitive advantage.

Community & Impact

Making a Difference in Our Communities

We are committed to making a difference in our communities and the world. We proudly contribute financially to organizations and causes that we believe will positively impact the greater good. We believe that donating our time, talent, and resources is also as important. Our offices and colleagues worldwide take part in community service through a variety of organizations and programs. The Korn Ferry Charitable Foundation aims to create and support programs that help people exceed their potential, providing direct relief to those affected by natural disasters, funding scholarships and programs, and offering grants to charitable organizations working to enhance our communities. Grant recipients include the American Red Cross, Black Girls Code, Communities in Schools, Management Leadership for Tomorrow, Out & Equal, and the Trevor Project.

Inclusion & Diversity

The Power of All: Building Inclusive Organizations

When individuals from all backgrounds are given equitable opportunities to contribute and succeed, organizations gain a powerful competitive edge. We are the largest global consulting practice specializing in diversity, equity and inclusion with 40+ years of experience in designing award-winning DEI solutions worldwide. We have a proven track record of designing and implementing solutions that retain, develop and advance traditionally under-represented talent. We transform the behavior and mindset of teams, individuals, and leaders. And we support them with fair and equitable structures and processes that ensure opportunity and equity at every stage of the employee journey. Our purpose is to help everyone from all backgrounds achieve their full potential, which in turn helps organizations to thrive, widens the positive impact on society, and deepens the connection between people.

Awards & Accreditations

Recognized as a Leader in Consulting and Recruitment

Since day one, Korn Ferry is proud to be recognized as a leader in consulting and recruitment and be named one of the best companies for working parents, millennials and the LGBTQ+ community. We foster a spirit of collaboration and excellence that is unmatched. Awards include: 2023 Leader in Managin... See more

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