Senior Principal
Jaya Pathak is a Senior Principal for Korn Ferry based in the firm’s Calgary office.
Ms. Pathak specializes in executive assessments and succession, leadership development, and is a core member of Korn Ferry’s Inclusive Leader solution team.
Ms. Pathak has extensive experience leading the design and development of success profiles and competency models for clients as well as managing large and complex client engagements.
As a coach, she takes a purpose driven approach when working with executives on their development goals. Through insightful questions, and a positive and empathetic style, she facilitates introspection. This enables leaders to expand their self-awareness and maximize impact.
Ms. Pathak has worked with clients in a variety of industries including manufacturing, finance, healthcare, pharma, medical equipment, food, and agriculture.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Pathak was a Senior Consultant at Data Solutions. She managed clients’ employee survey needs including design, implementation, analysis, presentation of key insights to leadership and recommendations for action planning.
In her role as an organizational effectiveness manager at Infosys Technologies Ltd., she managed the organization’s performance appraisal process, annual employee opinion survey, 360-degree feedback survey and Infosys’ HR benchmarking efforts.
Ms. Pathak has been a member of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology and American Psychological Association.
Ms. Pathak holds a doctoral degree in industrial/organizational psychology from Florida Institute of Technology. She is fluent in English and Hindi.
She is certified in Korn Ferry Leadership Architect TM, Korn Ferry Leadership Solution, Leadership Styles, Organizational Climate, Emotional and Social Competence Inventory, Korn Ferry Assess Potential, KF360 and The Inclusive Leader assessment. Certified Deep Transformational Coach.