Karalee Close

Talent & Organisation Lead, Global

Accenture

Karalee is Accenture’s Global Lead for the Talent & Organisation practice and a member of the company’s Global Management Committee. She is dedicated to reinventing work, driving change and enhancing the employee experience to boost productivity, drive growth and make work more meaningful. Karalee is expanding the Talent and Organisation practice to help clients fuel sustainable growth by connecting people and technology to unlock human ingenuity.

Karalee is a respected and innovative leader with more than two decades of senior regional and global leadership roles. She is passionate about working at the intersection of strategy, technology and people. With clients, her focus is large-scale digital, AI and technology transformation and innovative ways to accelerate value and speed through integrated approaches to technology, people and ways of working.

She is a renowned author, TED and event speaker, invited lecturer and CEO advisor who enjoys exchanging ideas across sectors and disciplines. She is a passionate supporter of women in technology and leadership, thought diversity, psychological safety and new ways of working.

Karalee also leads an enriching life as a mother of two teenagers, wife, daughter, sister, aunt and friend. She enjoys outdoor adventures, travelling and cooking and spent a glorious 'gap year' sailing across the Atlantic with her family! She received her Master of Business Administration from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

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