Linda Hyman

Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources for Korn/Ferry International and Senior Client Partner

I worked with Jack fairly intensively for eight years while he was at Korn Ferry, beginning in 2003 when I was the senior client partner of the firm in charge of the overall firm relationship with a major pharmaceutical company and Jack had joined to head up our Americas leadership consulting effort.

Given the (then) infancy of the practice particularly in the Americas, what was needed was someone to re-energize the effort; make the existing folks believe in themselves and each other to become more effective; and act as primarily an internal salesman with the executive search corps so that they would grant access to their clients.


Due to his previous global experience with the Chase Manhattan Bank; his leadership consulting background with Senn-Delaney; his natural relational skills and authenticity, the Americas effort enjoyed great success over the ensuing seven plus years Jack was with us. He would be the first to say he didn’t do this by himself but instead, created the environment in which his people could excel.

Revenue growth reached double-digits; client satisfaction was the highest in the firm; and employee morale and team cohesiveness soared. We added many new high caliber people during this seven/eight year period thus expanding our capability and footprint.


In addition to individual new hires, we also acquired two substantial leadership consulting firms during that period (Lominger International and Leadersource). Due to his relational and integrative strengths, we asked Jack to assume the lead on the day-to-day integration of these entities into the Korn/Ferry culture. Jack’s contribution to this critical initiative can’t be underestimated as these new entity product offerings very quickly became a staple of the Americas overall offering portfolio as the foundation of our core competitive differentiator.

Jack became a trusted advisor to me during this period and we still keep in contact to this day. His wisdom, experience, trustworthiness and passion to help others succeed and grow are the fundamental attributes that separate him from the “pack.” There is Jack and then there is everyone else!