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Michel Buffet

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Senior Client Partner | Top Team Performance Solution Leader at Korn Ferry
📍 Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Michel is a Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry, leading the Top Team Performance solution. He advises C-suite executives on leadership development and team effectiveness, drawing on his Ph. D. from Columbia University. Colleagues frequently describe him as insightful, gifted, and an outstanding assessor of professionals.

A dual French-American citizen, Michel is trilingual in French, English, and Spanish. He is a board member of the French-American Chamber of Commerce in New York, where he chairs the HR & Mobility Committee. His career began uniquely as an Officer Psychologist in the French Navy.

He has spoken about how growing up in a multicultural family in rural France shaped his intentional and authentic approach to his life and career.

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Senior Client Partner | Top Team Performance Solution Leader
Location
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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Inclusive Teams
Co-author of the book “The 5 Disciplines of Inclusive Teams, ” which explores how to unlock the collective power of diverse teams to achieve breakthrough results.
AI in Leadership
Recently explored how AI reshapes value-creation models and how executive teams must adapt decision-making and leadership behaviors in an AI-augmented world.
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Career

Work history

5-2019
Senior Client Partner | Top Team Performance Solution Leader
Korn Ferry
2-2022
Board Member
French-American Chamber of Commerce - New York
1-2014 - 4-2019
Head of Leadership Resilience (Americas)
YSC Consulting
9-2016 - 9-2017
Adjunct Professor
Teachers College, Columbia University
9-2013 - 8-2014
President
Metropolitan New York Association of Applied Psychology
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Education
1993 - 2001
Ph.D.
Columbia University
1987 - 1992
DESS
Université Paris Cité
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