Olivier

Boulard

Senior Client Partner, Board & CEO Services

Olivier Boulard is a member of the Board and CEO Services Practice, based in the Firm’s Paris and London offices. He leads the CEO Succession practice for EMEA and the Board practice for France.

With 24 years of consulting experience, he regularly works with Boards on governance, Board effectiveness, Board composition and CEO succession topics.

His approach usually combines a deep understanding of the strategic context, of the organization and governance models, and of the internal and external talent bench quality. His innovative yet actionable way to make the link between strategy, organization and leadership enables him to support Boards and CEOs in making the best decisions for business continuity and sustainable strategy execution.

Olivier served many European clients from different industries in various contexts such as: Board renewal, CEO succession preparation, Top Team renewal, Merger, Acquisition, IPO, and Strategy shift.

Olivier started his consultant career in 2001 with A.T. Kearney on business strategy and organization design assignments. He then joined the Delta practice of Oliver Wyman and specialized in Organization Transformation, supporting executive teams in leading organizational and cultural change.

Prior to joining Korn Ferry, Olivier spent 10 years in two different global search firms where he contributed to the development of their leadership consulting businesses and ran their EMEA Leadership Consulting teams.

He started his career in the Arts, managing opera productions in the Théâtre du Châtelet - Paris, before producing an aquatic circus show for four years.

Olivier is a graduate of HEC Business School - Paris and holds a post-graduate degree in Arts Administration from University of Paris – Dauphine and City University of London.

He is certified with MBTI and Hogan tools and is a NeuroCognitivism Institute practitioner.

Olivier speaks French and English and has conversational level in German and Spanish.