Dana Maor

Dana is the global cohead and European leader of our People & Organizational Performance Practice. She first joined McKinsey in New York in 1998. After ten years in the United States, she transferred to the Israel office, where she was the office managing partner from 2011 to 2021. During her tenure, she played a pivotal role in driving significant transformations within the office and across the region.

From 2015 to 2017, Dana led McKinsey’s work on transformational change across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, with a focus on aligning organizations’ leadership and strategic goals to ensure that transformations were both effective and sustainable. Most recently, she has led the firm’s global efforts on talent, guiding organizations in establishing leadership programs for top executives who are driving transformational change and helping architect capability-building programs to reskill employees for changing workforce needs.

Whether working in aerospace, consumer, financial services, pharmaceuticals, or telecommunications, Dana has helped clients pursue successful large-scale operational and organizational transformations and successful M&A integrations. Amid the gen AI and tech revolution, she brings together her technology background and passion for people to help organizations navigate the future of work.

Dana is active in knowledge creation and publishing and played a major role in the research behind Talent Wins, the 2018 McKinsey book on practices associated with effective talent management. She is a coauthor of the bestselling book The Journey of Leadership.

In her current leadership role, Dana continues to be focused on unleashing sustained value creation for people and organizations through transformation. This work includes guiding senior executives through personal and professional growth—helping them to define a clear purpose and design a fast and flexible operating model to deliver it—ensuring that they, their people, and their organizations thrive. Additionally, she works with organizations across sectors to realize the full potential of AI, embedding new technologies in ways that drive business strategy while fostering a human-centric approach to leadership and talent management. Emphasizing talent as a source of value, Dana helps organizations devise their people strategies so they have the right skills, now and in the future. She also supports initiatives to shape healthy cultures, shift mindsets, and motivate new behaviors for a more engaged and productive workforce.