Naomi Sutherland

With more than 30 years of experience, Ms. Sutherland has been helping clients optimize their business and related talent strategies through innovative solutions in enterprise talent management, leadership development, inclusion, diversity and employee engagement. Naomi especially enjoys working in the areas of advancing  women, identifying and developing enterprise leadership, and has done award-winning work in the areas of onboarding and mentoring.

Ms. Sutherland is a trusted advisor and coach to senior executives aiming to achieve and sustain profitable business results. In her coaching, Naomi supports executives in their critical transition to becoming broader enterprise leaders as well as in specific targeted development. Her down to earth approach enables Naomi to build rapport and work effectively with a broad range of leaders to help them to achieve the desired outcomes. As a natural connector of people, she is often sought out for both formal and informal coaching and mentoring within Korn Ferry.

As the Global Lead for the Korn Ferry Life Science and Healthcare Markets, Ms. Sutherland is responsible for collaborating across KF areas of expertise to design and deliver solutions that meet the unique needs of these industries. Ms. Sutherland also leads our Advisory relationship with several of Korn Ferry’s premier life science clients. In this role, she serves as the relationship manager and key strategist, liaising with executive team stakeholders and internal Korn Ferry account team members, ensuring the alignment of human capital solutions to advance client business strategies with a focus on leadership.

Most recently, Naomi served as President of our NA Consulting organization and previously, Managing Partner of our Boston office. Throughout her career, Naomi has led many of the firm's solution teams, including client services, measurement and assessment, business development, and account leadership. Moreover, she has led and participated in various internal task forces designed to: merge organizational cultures post acquisition, enhance employee engagement, increase client retention and was on the firm’s executive team that led our COVID Response. Ms. Sutherland holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Social Psychology of Work Organizations with a focus Women’s Leadership.