Neil Janin

Neil, a Canadian national, is a Director Emeritus of McKinsey & Company in its Paris office, where he joined the Firm in 1982.

Neil Janin was also one of the thought leaders McKinsey’s organization practice, and has conducted engagements in every area of organizational practice: design, leadership, governance, performance enhancement, culture change and transformation. Specifically, he was the main architect of the leadership development program for Directors worldwide, and he led a recent research effort on top team effectiveness and strategy visioning.

Today, he divides his time between, counseling senior executives and their teams, teaching and doing research on leadership development, and redesigning the learning curriculum for McKinsey’s partnership group worldwide. Alongside his work with KDVI, he also sits in a number of for profit and non-profit boards.

Before joining McKinsey, Neil worked for the Chase Manhattan Bank (now JP Morgan Chase) in New York and Paris, and Procter & Gamble in Toronto.

Neil holds an MBA from York University, Toronto and a joint honors degree in Economics and Accounting from McGill University, Montreal.

He is 58 years old, fluent in English and French, and has conversational Arabic.