The Forum's members are a group of influential global business leaders who are committed to creating opportunities for women as an integral part of their core business, corporate social responsibility agendas, diversity, and inclusion initiatives. |
Forum Members
Eduardo Belmont Lloyd Blankfein Henryka Bochniarz Frank J. Brown Kevin M. Campbell John T. Chambers Kristin Clemet Rick Goings Kevin L. Kelly Sung-joo Kim Yang Lan Wendy Luhabe Dennis Nally Marilyn Carlson Nelson Hüsnü M. Özyeǧin Rex W. Tillerson Lynn Taliento Elena Viyella de Paliza Nitin Paranjpe Mark Parker Peter Sands James S. Turley Mona Zulficar
Member Background | Company Information | Focus on Women's Empowerment Member BackgroundLynn Taliento is a Partner in the Washington DC Office of McKinsey & Company. She is co-founder and leader of McKinsey's Social Sector Office in the Americas, and is leading the firm's work on gender issues in developing and emerging markets. Lynn has a strong focus on leading strategic planning and board governance efforts, and has done significant client work on the topic of nonprofit advocacy. Lynn has spent her fifteen years at McKinsey working with a wide variety of nonprofit organizations, including large direct service and funding providers such as CARE and the United Way, as well as helping establish innovative advocacy groups, including The ONE Campaign and the Council of Elders. She works extensively with global foundations, and individual philanthropists, helping shape their vision, strategy, and organizational design. In her role providing strategic planning support to the grantees of her foundation clients, Lynn has also worked with local service providers, including charter schools, healthcare providers, and after-school programs. Lynn graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in American studies, and she earned a master's degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University where she was a Kennedy Fellow. She is fluent in Spanish and spent 4 years in McKinsey's Mexico City Office, from 1994 to 1998. Before McKinsey, Lynn was a Press Secretary for a U.S. Congressman. Lynn now lives in Washington, DC with her husband and her children, Amelia and Noah.
Company InformationMcKinsey & Co. is a management consulting firm that helps the world's leading institutions to address their strategic challenges. With consultants in more than 50 countries, McKinsey advises its clients on strategic, operational, organizational and technological issues. For eight decades, the firm's primary objective has been to serve as a trusted external advisor on critical issues facing senior management.
Focus on Women's EmpowermentMcKinsey aspires to recruit highly talented women and has in place a variety of initiatives focused on women, including a Women's Network. The company recently rolled out a centered-leadership program, which has trained about 1,000 women in a new approach to leadership that aims to help women become more self-confident and effective business leaders. McKinsey seeks to make a difference for women globally, too. The company actively supports women's economic empowerment through philanthropic engagement with the Global Summit for Women, Vital Voices Global Partnership, Women's Forum for the Economy and Society, Catalyst, the World Economic Forum, and the Cartier Women's Awards. As part of its Leadership Project: Portraits of Women Leaders with Vital Voices, McKinsey has collected oral histories of women leaders from different regions, age groups, and career paths, and has supported the FORTUNE/U.S. State Department Mentoring Partnership, which pairs women from developing countries with female business leaders in the United States. An integral part of McKinsey's values is to give back to the communities they serve through work in the social sector and in their local office pro bono portfolios. The company recently conducted pro bono work on strategy for the Forte Foundation, which works to increase the number of women business leaders. The McKinsey Quarterly regularly publishes thought-provoking research on women in business. Articles have focused on global issues, as well as country-specific gender concerns.
One of the leaders of McKinsey, Sandrine Devillard-Hoellinger, Partner, has done a lot to promote McKinsey's work on women's empowerment. Sandrine is one of the core leaders of the European Retail practice. Since joining in 1993, she has worked throughout Europe and Asia. In addition to client work, Sandrine is co-leader of McKinsey Women in Europe, Middle East and Africa and sits on the International Advisory Board of the Women's Forum for the Economy & Society. With Women's Forum for the Economy & Society, she is leading a global research project aimed at assessing women's contribution to the economic and social development of our societies. Sandrine graduated from I'Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales in 1993. |
