Claudio Fernandez-Araoz
Talent and leadership expert
Claudio Fernández-Aráoz is an Argentine talent and leadership expert and an adviser at the executive search firm Egon Zehnder. He wrote Great People Decisions.
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Argentinian Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
About Claudio Fernandez-Araoz
Claudio Fernández-Aráoz was born in Buenos Aires. He studied industrial engineering at the Argentine Catholic University and went on to earn an MBA at Stanford University. He worked at McKinsey & Co. in Europe before joining the executive search firm Egon Zehnder in 1986. There he founded the management appraisal practice, and he is a senior adviser to the firm. In 2008 he received the Konex Award, which recognized him as one of the most important executives of the decade in Argentina. Fernández-Aráoz speaks at business events and management schools, writes for Harvard Business Review and lectures at Harvard Business School. Besides Great People Decisions, he wrote It's Not the How or the What but the Who.