Verena leads our London office.  She is an advisor and resource to C-level executives and senior teams.  Based on a decade of experience serving a variety of organizations, she believes that the key to driving sustained performance and growth lies in fully harnessing the energy and talent of an organization's people.  Verena’s work spans from being a performance catalyst for leadership teams, to systematically shaping culture and environment to align with strategy.  Her career began in finance at a hedge fund, progressed to strategy consulting at McKinsey & Company, and for the past seven years has been focused on leadership and organizational effectiveness.

Verena holds both PhD in Business and a MBA from University of Vienna, Austria and an MPA from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. She is a certified executive coach.

When not working with clients, Verena can often be found upside down in a yoga pose - she teaches vinyasa and hatha yoga.  She and her husband Manuel live in London.