KornFerry: Celebrating Forty Years

I almost missed my career opportunity at Korn/Ferry! In the fall of 1993, Alan Neely called me to discuss recruiting me from Paul Ray Berndtson in Atlanta to KFI. I agreed to have breakfast with him to discuss the opportunity. We agreed to meet at 7:30 a.m. - and by 8:15 am he had not shown up...

When I started at Korn/Ferry 21 years ago, my children were 11 and 12. Now they are 32 and 33 and both married, and I am a grandmother now too...

Thanksgiving is a special time to reflect on what we cherish and what we have to be thankful for. So indeed it is a good time to think about my almost three years at Korn/Ferry..

I started six days before the Global Partners meeting in Hawaii in 1994. It was a spectacular way to meet my new colleagues and celebrate what was then a 25-year old premier...

I learned firsthand many years ago from my lifelong involvement in several nonprofit organizations that disadvantaged people depend on our determination to help in order to progress in their lives. When thinking about social responsibility I used to think about companies committed to supporting...

From the very beginning, I have been cordially received by the Korn/Ferry International team in Vienna. The encouragement and support from my colleagues and managers is allowing me to develop...

I have been working for Korn/Ferry International Vienna since 1994, and believe it or not, I am the last one standing from that era. So you can call me the prehistoric rock of Korn/Ferry Austria. Over the years, I have seen many interesting people come and go, and even today...

I remember well my interview with Sergio Averbach during my own recruiting process. After a long, detailed interviewed, I finally asked what Korn/Ferry wanted from me. I was surprised when Sergio told me that he wanted me to join his team because I had never thought...

When I joined the firm on May 1, 1979 Korn/Ferry was approaching its 10th anniversary. Korn/Ferry had recently been designated as the largest search firm in the world by Fortune magazine. As I recall, total worldwide revenue was about $16 million. The New York office...

I first came to Korn/Ferry in 1985 and was here for about one year. During that year, I met one of my best friends who I still know today and have established many more lasting and quality relationships...

I had no idea back in 2004 as I stepped into an elevator on the 21st floor of an office building in LA that it would be the most life-changing ride of my life. By the time the elevator dropped me off in the lobby...

I was the classic ″passive″ candidate back in 1999 - working in my 20th year in technology at Citigroup in New York City when Dan Demeter, Korn/Ferry′s CIO and former colleague at Citi...

In life, it is not always easy to combine what you feel passion for with work. Korn/Ferry gave me this opportunity, gave me the passion and the art...

Colombia has been a strategic player to Korn/Ferry in South America. When we opened operations in Ecuador and Peru, for a significant amount of time I lived two weeks of every month in Bogota and the other two...

Korn/Ferry has immensely evolved in the nine years and a half I have been with the Firm and it has allowed me to grow, learn and evolve with it. We grew from being the best headhunter in the world to becoming the best human...

At Korn/Ferry, I have discovered the real passion for work and have learned to be a better person and professional every day...

When I arrived 15 years ago, Korn/Ferry had only been in Colombia for two years and we were just five people in a very small space but with the intention of prominently positioning the Firm in the local market. Today, 17 years later...

Korn/Ferry International has given me what for many years I looked for in an organization. Day in and day out, I have had the opportunity to meet wonderfully valuable people, full of professional qualities and personal...

Once a year, in the São Paulo office, we have what is called ″Family Friday,″ which is an afternoon at work that is dedicated to our family and friends. We always have a lot of fun on this special day, which includes hot dogs...

My eldest son (three years old) keeps asking me when the next Family Friday will take place. The only real tough challenge is trying to convince him that it is not every single day that we have clowns...

I remember that two or three months after starting at Korn/Ferry, in the fall of 2007, we had a Partner′s Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for all the partners in the Americas. I was very new at the company...

Anna has a long history with Korn/Ferry, which started in 1994. That year, Anna Koff was approached by K/F Russia, when the company just entered Russia via acquisition of small local company. Anna was interviewed...

In 2008, I spent my last semester of college studying abroad in Spain, flew back to the States to graduate a week later, and then somehow landed my first official job...

One of my best memories of Korn/Ferry is from the Partners Meeting in Berlin in 2007, which coincided with my 15th anniversary with the Firm...