High Performance Teams at the Top: Driving Performance and transformation through purposeful, disciplined, and inclusive leadership.  

Whether CEOs seek to set up their organization for growth, to accelerate their own impact in their first 100 days, or to beat the odds against a challenging post-merger integration, securing a high-performance team should be at the top of their agenda. Building on the work of the late Richard Hackman and his collaborators on senior leadership teams, Korn Ferry has advised hundreds of CEOs and top teams on charting tailored team development roadmap. This talk will offer lessons learned from our decades-long experience with top team development work and will cover the following topics:

• Using the 6 conditions of high performing teams to pinpoint top development needs and priorities for executive teams.
• Using an Enterprise Leadership framework to help CEOs and their team balance the need to run the business with the need to change the business.
• Engaging with CEOs and their stakeholders to create momentum for change.
• Addressing roadblocks to team development.
• Cultivating the 5 disciplines of inclusive teams to unlock innovation and breakthroughs.

Speaker Bio

Michel Buffet is a Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry, a global organizational and leadership consulting firm. He partners with CEOs and C-suite leaders on organizational and leadership development solutions designed to unlock potential for performance and transformation. Michel has over 25 years of consulting experience in C-suite succession, leadership assessment, executive development and coaching, high-performance team development, and organizational transformation. He leads Korn Ferry’s Top Team Performance practice in North America and is a member of the firm’s CEO & Board Development practice. He is also the advisory lead on several of the firm’s key accounts across industries, including Consumer Products, Life Science, and Professional Services. Prior to joining Korn Ferry, Michel was managing consultant and head of leadership resilience at YSC. Prior to this, he was an owner and managing partner at Fisher Rock Consulting, and a partner at Oliver Wyman Delta. He started his career as an Officer Psychologist in the French Navy.

He is a board member at French American Chamber of Commerce in New York (FACC-NY) where he chairs the HR & Mobility Committee. He is also a former president and board member of the Metropolitan New York Association of Applied Psychology and an active member of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He has authored several articles on executive onboarding and organizational applications of Social Network Analysis (SNA). He holds a PhD in organizational psychology from Columbia University and a doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Paris. He lives in Princeton, NJ.

Event Location Details

Date

Thursday, March 28th  

Time

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Location

NYU Wasserman Center

The Wasserman Center for Career Development is New York University’s central career development resource, providing services and support to undergraduate students, graduate and graduate certificate students, postdocs, and alumni with a bachelor’s, master’s, graduate certificate, or doctoral degree from nearly every NYU school. 

133 E 13th Street, 2nd Floor

NY, NY