Matt

Norquist

Senior Client Partner, Industry Lead, Financial Services, Advisory

Matt Norquist leads Korn Ferry’s Advisory business in the Financial Services Industry, working with Korn Ferry teams to enable clients to connect their talent strategy to business performance. 

Matt’s experience includes:

  • CEO of a Global Top 20 leadership consulting firm.
  • Head of Consulting for NA for a $20 billion staffing and talent management organization.
  • Global Head of Insights for the world’s largest public relations agency.
  • 10 years at a global public opinion, customer experience, and employee engagement consultancy.
  • Double-digit revenue growth in a fintech company, after participating in a leadership development journey targeted to sales leaders’ development needs.
  • Has led teams and projects spanning over 60 countries. 

His work covers a wide range of solutions that includes talent acquisition, assessment, leadership development, succession planning, and connecting reward and benefits strategies to performance objectives.

Beyond the above focus areas, Matt has a passion for behavioral economics and data analytics.  He is expert at using behavioral and attitudinal data to drive business performance, and recently led a study looking at over 10 million data points across 100,000 leaders to identify the commitments that separate the most successful leaders from their peers.

In addition to his consulting work, Matt will partner across markets and solution areas to drive business growth and client impact, and work with our leadership and marketing teams to simplify and optimize our Go-To-Market strategies and tactics. 

Matt holds an MBA from University of Nebraska and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Azusa Pacific University, from both of which he graduated summa cum laude.