Jill leads marketing globally at Korn Ferry. A former journalist, she is a storyteller and innovative strategist with a successful track record of unifying companies from the inside out, bringing together acquired brands, developing a go-to-market approach, and then aligning operationally to achieve better business outcomes. Since taking the helm in 2018, Jill has been a catalyst for transformation and growth, steering the integration of seven acquisitions to drive the internal and external alignment of a new, expanded One Korn Ferry.

Jill joins Korn Ferry from global industrial advisory DEKRA, where she was most recently senior vice president and head of business innovation and strategic marketing. In this role, she led product, service and market expansion and worked seamlessly between their innovation center in Los Angeles and their corporate headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany. Prior to this she held senior marketing, innovation and business management positions at Ipsos, NPD and Gallup and sat behind the anchor desk at NBC and other television networks across Louisiana, Kansas, and New York.

An advocate for women, while at Ipsos, Jill helped form The Equity Lounge® where, through its signature pop-up experiences, she worked with Fortune 500 companies and impact organizations to advance equality in the workplace. At Korn Ferry, she serves as an executive sponsor of Korn Ferry’s Mosaic Program which is focused on the development of the firm’s diverse future talent and she is a founding contributor to the Korn Ferry Foundation and its Leadership U for Humanity initiative which is partnering with community organizations to find, develop and champion one million new diverse leaders globally.

Jill has an MBA from Cornell University and earned a BA in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin.