Circle of Advisors
Virginia "Ginny" Clarke | Leadership Consultant
Ginny Clarke is an independent leadership consultant working top executives and corporate teams nationwide providing guidance regarding leadership development, career management, talent recruitment and retention.
Most recently, Clarke was a member of Spencer Stuart's Financial Officer practice and headed the international search firm's global Diversity Practice.
While at Spencer Stuart, her search clients included corporate real estate services firms, insurance companies, banks and other financial and professional services companies. She has successfully recruited professionals in a variety of senior-level functions, including general management, finance, accounting and marketing. In her leadership of the Diversity Practice, Clarke works with global clients to customize diversity recruitment and retention strategies; she also oversees the firm's efforts to provide clients with diverse slates of candidates through knowledge management and by embedding diversity and inclusion into the firm's culture and infrastructure.
Prior to joining the firm, Clarke spent several years in banking and 10 years in the real estate investment management business with Jones Lang LaSalle and Prudential Real Estate Investors. Her activities included asset management, portfolio management, capital raising and client servicing.
She received her bachelor of arts degree from the University of California at Davis and a master's in management from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. She is a member of the board of Medical Properties Trust in Birmingham, Alabama (NYSE:MPW).
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