Corinne Klajda
Corinne heads Accord Group Polska, a founding member of the AltoPartners Executive Search & Leadership Consulting global alliance where she also leads the Global Consumer Goods, Retail & Luxury Practice Group.
With her team, she has conducted over 850 senior-level executive search assignments since 1999 for both multinationals & European businesses. She personally places senior candidates into CXO & leadership, as well as digital and business transformation roles.
Clients value her straightforward honesty and transparently advocating for candidates that are the best fit for the organisation in terms of culture and business strategy.
A founder and a non-executive chairwoman of Nuvadis Interim, Corinne also consults on multiple business transition & executive interim management assignments.
Being a certified mentor coach, she has become a trusted advisor beyond the search focus: she maintains her coaching practice exclusively for CEOs, and regularly facilitates board discussions delivering leadership consulting services.
A native of Mauritius, she lived and worked for 10 years in China where she graduated from the Beijing Language & Culture University, completed an Executive MBA from the CEIBS in Shanghai, worked at Halliburton International & International SOS Assistance. Prior to moving to Poland, she joined the Executive Search firm Ray & Berndtson in 1994 where she worked as Country Manager for five years.
Corinne is an active YPO member since 2006 and a guest lecturer at the Warsaw School of Economics & at the Executive Program for Women at the Kozminski University that she particularly enjoys as she is a firm believer in female empowerment.
She also engages in multiple philanthropic activities. Her most significant philanthropic project was #CorinneRunsForGood with the Unaweza foundation raising over 1 million Polish Złoty for 40 scholarships dedicated to 40 female para athletes in Poland & Ukraine, while running 250KM in the deserts in Namib, Atacama & Gobi.
Part of her DNA is fostering relationships and hosting events such as CEO breakfasts, HR round-tables or “the atelier” – a creative space where her personal and professional contacts can experiment under the guidance of a known artist.
Where else can you find her? If not running long distance & ultras while raising money for the less fortunate, she is gearing up to climb summits of the world.