Francois Paugam

Director, Organisation Strategy

Francois is a Director in the Digital business, focusing on Employee Experience. He is based in Melbourne.

With over 18 years of experience in employee engagement, Francois advises organisations on designing the right listening strategy for them. He loves to uncover new insights from employees’ opinions throughout their lifecycle and partnering with organisations to leverage those insights, close experience gaps and help them support their people strategy.

During his time at Korn Ferry, Francois has used a range of tools and methodologies to lead client activities such as survey blueprint design & questionnaire design workshops, executive results presentations, coaching, focus groups and ‘insights to action’ workshops.

Prior to relocating to Melbourne in March 2020, Francois was based in the London office from 2011.

Before starting at Korn Ferry, Francois worked for another leading advisory firm for nearly 5 years, still working in Employee Engagement

Throughout his time in EMEA, Francois designed and delivered global Employee Experience programmes for organisations across a variety of sectors (Banking, High Tech, Manufacturing, Retail etc.)

He holds a Masters in Marketing from the University of Portsmouth, UK, and a dual International Business School degree from the Bordeaux Management School and the European Institute of the Madrid Chamber of Commerce.

Francois is Prince 2 accredited as well as Qualtrics accredited.

Francois speaks French, English and Spanish fluently.