Once it was ‘pity the poor emigrant’, in today’s information age they are often as not objects of envy.
In her London office Emanuela Aureli monitors the evolution of the market for leadership talent within IT, software, voice/data communications and other advanced technology companies.
As a Senior Client Partner of Korn/Ferry, one of the largest talent management consulting firms in the world, Emanuela’s job is to find leading senior executives and convince them to change company, city, sometimes their continent and certainly their lives.
She manages herself on that same basis: changing lives to put herself to the test and to grow: “I’m a child of the diaspora of disappointment,” she says “I graduated in Law at the beginning of the 90s in Rome, where I was born, and while studying I was already working to try and find out what I really wanted to do.”
Experiences in marketing and advertising with American Express and Young & Rubicam, followed by two years of post-graduate legal apprenticeship, made her realise that the “limited meritocracy and extremely chauvinistic attitudes” prevalent in Italy at the time were likely to thwart her desire to make her way in the world.
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Once it was ‘pity the poor emigrant’, in today’s information age they are often as not objects of envy.
