Accenture has announced the appointment of Karalee Close to lead Accenture’s Talent & Organization practice and join the company’s Global Management Committee, effective immediately.
In addition to leading Accenture’s Talent & Organization practice, Close will serve as a member of Accenture’s Global Management Committee and Accenture’s Global Strategy & Consulting group. She will be based out of Vancouver.
In this global role, Close will lead and expand Accenture’s Talent & Organization practice, which helps companies and their leaders fuel sustainable growth by connecting people and technology to unlock human ingenuity; finding ways to access, create and unlock new talent; and designing an organization built to thrive amid change.
She will lead Accenture’s vision for talent, organization and change agendas across the company’s full range of capabilities and its ecosystem partners and continue to develop assets and offerings to help clients reimagine their workforces, prepare workers with the skills today’s tech revolution requires, and ultimately drive enterprise-wide change with people at the center.
“Karalee brings significant experience in transformations, organization and people, and design, skilling and change solutions that will help us continue to expand our practice and capabilities and drive 360-degree value for our clients”, Julie Sweet, chair and CEO of Accenture.
Close is a respected and innovative leader whose career spans more than two decades of senior regional and global leadership roles while based in Toronto, Paris and London.
Most recently, Close was Managing Director & Senior Partner and served as Vice Chair, Tech & Digital at The Boston Consulting Group.
“Accenture has an ambitious agenda to help companies continuously reinvent their future and enhance performance through technology and talent,” said Karalee Close.
“I have always been committed to putting people at the center of change and am excited to play a key role in bringing Accenture’s deep technology capabilities together with new and innovative approaches to talent, human performance and leadership”, she added.
Prior to joining the Boston Consulting Group, Close held senior management positions in corporate planning and information systems in healthcare.
Close holds her Master of Business Administration from University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.
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