Claudio Fernández-Aráoz is an Argentinian author, international speaker and global expert on talent and leadership, ranked by '' BusinessWeek'' as one of the most influential executive search consultants in the world. He is currently a senior adviser of

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. Before joining Egon Zehnder in 1986, he worked at

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in Europe. He is a frequent lecturer at the

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. In 2008 he also won the Konex Award as one of the most importants executive of that decade in Argentina.

Background

Fernández-Aráoz earned a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, graduating with a Gold Medal, and an MBA from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

, where he graduated with honors as an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Work

He is the author of ''It's Not the How or the What but the Who'' (''

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'', 2014), ''Great People Decisions'' ( Wiley, 2007) which was acclaimed by Jim Collins, Daniel Goleman and Jack Welch, and has published several bestselling articles on the topic of People Decisions, including ''Hiring Without Firing,'' ''The Definitive Guide to Recruiting in Good Times and Bad,'' ''How to Hang On to Your High Potentials,'' and the June 2014 cover article ''21st Century Talent Spotting'' of the Harvard Business Review. He has also written for MIT Sloan Management Review.Getting the Right People at the Top, MIT Sloan Review, 2005
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References

External links

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World Business Forum The World Business Forum which was founded in 1988 is an annual global business summit held in New York City. A 2008 Burson-Marsteller survey ranked the forum among the world's top five most influential venues for the C-Suite executives. The ye ...

How Raising Beef Calves Reveals the Best Strategy for Hiring Executives
post by Fernández-Aráoz at Forbes
Claudio Fernández-Aráoz speaking
on ''

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'' at MSNBC
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