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Emilie Petrone Senior Client Partner
Princeton

Emilie Heck Petrone is a Senior Client Partner in Korn/Ferry International’s Princeton office and a member of the Firm’s Global Life Sciences Market and Human Resources Center of Expertise. In addition, she is the Global Account Leader for Firm’s relationship with Johnson & Johnson. In this role, she focuses on the strategic development of the relationship at the highest levels across all of Korn/Ferry’s talent management offerings.

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Gabriella Kilby Managing Principal
Leadership and Talent Consulting

Global Leader, Culture Assessment

Gabriella D. Kilby is a Managing Principal in Korn/Ferry International’s Leadership and Talent Consulting group, based in the Firm’s Toronto office. She is also the Global Leader for Culture Assessment.

As a part of Leadership and Talent Consulting, Ms. Kilby offers clients a unique approach to improving business performance through the assessment and development of executive and leadership teams.

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By Emilie Petrone and Gabriella Kilby

The HR function is in a state of transition caused by the increasing pressure to identify and develop next-generation leaders, the growing globalization of businesses and talent pools, and the CEO’s requirement that HR be more strategic and relevant to the business as a whole. As HR seeks to meet these demands, others have questioned its effectiveness.

The premise of this Korn/Ferry Institute whitepaper is that HR executives who desire to create the organizational capability and talent strategies for the post-recession world need to be competent tacticians who also can think and act strategically. Among other things, this means behaving more like their colleagues with profit-and-loss responsibilities.

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