Dana is the global cohead and European leader of our People & Organizational Performance Practice. She first joined McKinsey in New York in 1998. After 10 years in the United States, she transferred to the Israel office, where she was our office Managing Partner from 2011 to 2021.
From 2015 to 2017, Dana led our work on transformational change across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Most recently, she led our work on talent around the globe. Passionate about talent and leadership, Dana has guided many organizations through the process of establishing leadership-development platforms for top executives and has helped architect capability-building programs to reskill employees for changing workforce needs.
Whether working in aerospace, financial services, pharmaceuticals, or telecommunications, she has helped clients pursue successful large-scale operational and organizational transformations and successful M&A integrations.
Dana is active in knowledge creation and publishing, and took a major role in the research the firm undertook to build an effective understanding of talent management around McKinsey’s 2018 book, Talent Wins. She is a co-author of the bestselling book, The Journey of Leadership.
In her current leadership role, Dana is focused on ensuring holistic impact for our clients. This work includes helping leaders define a clear purpose and design a fast and flexible operating model to deliver it. Taking talent as a source of value, she sets people strategies so that organizations have the right skills for now and for the future. And she supports initiatives to shape healthy cultures, shift mindsets, and motivate new behaviors. The end goal is organizational transformations that are both successful and sustainable.
Published work
“How talent can power the ‘telco to techco’ transformation,” McKinsey & Company, September 2024
“The Journey of Leadership: How CEOs Learn to Lead from the Inside Out,” Portfolio/Penguin Group, September 2024
“What employees say matters most to motivate performance,” McKinsey & Company, August 2024
“The versatile leader: How learning to adapt makes CEOs better,” McKinsey Quarterly, August 2024
“Gen AI’s next inflection point: From employee experimentation to organizational transformation,” McKinsey & Company, August 2024
“The ‘inside out’ leadership journey: How personal growth creates the path to success,” McKinsey & Company, June 2024
“Four ways to start using generative AI in HR,” blog entry, McKinsey & Company, March 2024
“Europe’s gray-to-green workforce transition in aerospace and defense,” McKinsey & Company, October 2023
“The organization of the future: Enabled by gen AI, driven by people,” McKinsey & Company, September 2023
“Four essential questions for boards to ask about generative AI,” McKinsey & Company, July 2023
“All change: The new era of perpetual organizational upheaval,” McKinsey & Company, June 2023
“Getting a read on the state of organizations,” McKinsey & Company, June 2023
“It’s (past) time to get strategic about DEI,” McKinsey & Company, May 2023
The State of Organizations 2023: Ten shifts transforming organizations, McKinsey & Company, April 2023
“Ask these questions to design the people model and culture of your organization,” blog entry, McKinsey & Company, April 2023
“Into all problem-solving, a little dissent must fall,” McKinsey & Company, February 2023
“Foster organizational resilience for a stronger 2023,“ blog entry, McKinsey & Company, February 2023
Performance through people: Transforming human capital into competitive advantage, McKinsey Global Institute, February 2023
“European talent is ready to walk out the door. How should companies respond?,” McKinsey & Company, December 2022
“Resilient performance management in volatile times,” blog entry, McKinsey & Company, November 2022
“Raising the resilience of your organization,” McKinsey & Company, October 2022
“Bolder recruitment efforts can benefit organizations,” blog entry, McKinsey & Company, September 2022
“Overcoming the fear factor in hiring tech talent,” McKinsey Global Institute, August 2022
“‘Back to human’: Why HR leaders want to focus on people again,” McKinsey & Company, June 2021
“Reimagining the post-pandemic organization,” McKinsey Quarterly, May 2020
“Israel: Hot spot for future mobility technologies,” McKinsey & Company, September 2019
“Winning with your talent-management strategy,” McKinsey & Company, August 2018
“The people power of transformations,” McKinsey & Company, February 2017
“How to beat the transformation odds,” McKinsey & Company, April 2015
Education
Technion Israeli Institute of Technology
BS, computer science
MIT Sloan School of Management
MBA