With over 25 years of leadership consulting and executive search experience in financial services, Marie has a passion for advising boards and executives to select and develop leaders who can transform businesses and supporting high-growth organizations with the leadership, culture and organizational decisions to help them scale their business.
As a senior member of Spencer Stuart’s global Financial Services, Board and CEO, and Marketing practices, Marie works with a broad range of clients across banking, payments, wealth and asset management with a focus on C-suite recruitment, CEO succession and board search.
Marie has held leadership roles at the firm for nearly a decade, having led the global and Americas Financial Services Practice and served on the North American operating committee.
Strategic insight into leadership and organizational issues
- Over the past 15+ years at Spencer Stuart, Marie has led over 700 search, succession and leadership advisory engagements with her clients. Her experience in financial services, deep understanding of the industry’s complexity and stakeholders, and knowledge of the talent market all enable Marie to provide unique insights into what it takes to lead a financial services organization into the future.
- She joined Spencer Stuart from McKinsey & Company, where she worked with clients in consumer, retail and financial services on business transformation, growth and customer strategy. Marie also led McKinsey’s alumni relations function on a global basis, developing and executing innovative programs to strengthen ties with its growing and influential alumni body.
- Earlier in her career, Marie worked in senior marketing and merchandising roles in the hospitality and retailing industries.
Marie received her M.B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where she was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma. She holds a B.S. with high honors in business administration from Georgetown University.