My clients know from the very start that I care deeply about their own leadership success and elevating the quality and diversity of leadership at the top—it's my life's work. Great leadership teams transform organizations and enrich lives, and so I take great care working with CEOs, their boards, and their executive teams to assess, select, and develop a diverse and qualified team of leaders to drive significant business transformation.
Biography
Dr. Celeste Coruzzi is a managing director and practice leader of Veritas Partners, a Pearl Meyer consulting practice focused on leadership and organization effectiveness. Veritas Partners was acquired by Pearl Meyer in 2020 to expand the firm’s ability to provide human capital management consulting expertise to boards and management teams.
Celeste has been advising organizations for more than 30 years in the areas of leadership and organization change. As an organizational psychologist, she works with CEOs, boards, and executive teams in major corporations on CEO and executive succession planning, board governance, organization assessment and strategic change, executive team coaching, leadership assessment and development, organization design, culture change, and performance measurement.
Prior to joining Pearl Meyer, Celeste was co-founder and partner of Veritas Partners, a leadership development and organizational change consulting firm. Prior to launching Veritas, Celeste was a partner at Mercer Delta Consulting, working with CEOs and c-suite leaders on business transformation, and was a lead partner of PwC's Strategic Change Retail/Consumer Products group. Additional prior employers include IBM, NASA, and W. Warner Burke Associates. Celeste currently serves as Adjunct Full Professor at Columbia University Teachers College in the graduate program in Leadership and Organizational Change, a role she has held for more than 20 years. She has also served as faculty to the Columbia Business School executive development program and has been a board trustee to the National Organization Development Network and Editor-in-Chief of the OD Practitioner, its quarterly publication.
Celeste is a frequent presenter at professional conferences and on business program broadcasts and has published numerous articles and book chapters on leadership, empowerment, and organizational change.
Celeste is a member of the American Psychological Association and is certified in The Leadership Circle, MBTI and Hogan Assessments. Celeste received her BS from Fordham University and her MA and PhD from Columbia University.
