Leadership Lab: Navigating Your Next Career Move

Today's career paths are rarely linear. Whether you're looking to advance within your organization, transition into a new industry, or launch your own venture, success requires adaptability, strategic thinking, and the confidence to seize new opportunities.

Join us for an interactive Leadership Lab designed for young executives, emerging leaders, and ambitious professionals. Through candid conversations, expert insights, and facilitated breakout sessions, participants will explore three career pathways shaping the future of leadership.

Entrepreneurship: Building a Brand

What does it take to transform a passion into a recognizable brand? In this session, Sabrina Persaud will share the Flutter Butter journey, from identifying a market opportunity and building a brand with purpose to leveraging strategic partnerships to accelerate growth. Participants will gain insight into the realities of entrepreneurship, including establishing a strong brand identity, creating authentic relationships, securing meaningful collaborations, and navigating the challenges of scaling a business. Whether you're considering launching your own venture or looking to apply an entrepreneurial mindset within your current role, this discussion will provide practical lessons on turning ideas into lasting opportunities.

Speaker:

Sabrina Persaud, Founder of Flutter Butter

Sabrina is the founder of Flutter Butter Bakery, a gluten-free gourmet bakery in Brooklyn, New York. Flutter Butter bakery was borne out of Sabrina wanting to eat all of her childhood favorites, but in gluten-free form. Prior to this, she dedicated many years to the Government of Canada as a public servant working in areas like public service renewal, multiculturalism policy, indigenous entrepreneurship, higher education policy, among other areas. Recently, her interests have focused on building a greater intersectional awareness of how career shifts are happening given a person's higher education background. In recent years, she has questioned what it would mean to work in an entirely different sector as a second career, and that has led to building Flutter Butter Bakery—once a hobby baker turned into a full career. Being a Canadian, and opening a business in New York has been incredibly exciting from being able to cater to the Vogue Met Gala Press Room, being offered an acquisition just four months into building the business, and being featured as one of the best cookies in New York in Conde Nast Traveler.

Climbing the Corporate Ladder: Leading with Purpose

What does it take to build a successful corporate career and become a leader others want to follow? Drawing from his own professional journey, Carlos Perez will share practical insights on navigating career progression within a global organization, building strong relationships with mentors and sponsors, increasing your visibility, and developing the leadership skills needed to earn new opportunities. Participants will explore how to cultivate executive presence, lead high-performing teams, influence key stakeholders, and intentionally position themselves for long-term career growth.

Speaker:

Carlos Perez, Executive Director at JPMorgan

Carlos A. Perez is an Industry Executive in the Multinational Corporations (MNC) group of Commercial Banking. He heads a team of commercial bankers and Market Executives responsible for serving US Subsidiaries of foreign headquartered companies. His team provides traditional banking services and advise to emerging middle market and mid-corporate US subsidiaries across the Northeast segment.

With close to 20 years of finance experience, Carlos joined the firm in 2011 during its Florida expansion, focusing on domestic commercial banking clients in Miami. In 2019, he joined the MNC team to enhance South Florida coverage. In 2021, Carlos moved to New York City to head the firm’s Northeast MNC team. As part of his role, Carlos is on the national leadership team for US MNC and leads the strategic US corridor effort for Italy and France.

Pivoting Careers: Reinventing Yourself with Purpose

Career changes have become increasingly common, whether moving into a new industry, changing functions, or pursuing a passion. Participants will hear practical strategies for leveraging transferable skills, building a compelling professional narrative, expanding their network, and confidently navigating career transitions.

Speakers:

Jennifer Rosenberg, Principal, Consumer / Global Marketing Officers Practice

Jennifer Rosenberg is a Principal in Korn Ferry’s Consumer Executive Search practice and a member of the firm’s Global Marketing Officers Practice. Based in New York, she specializes in placing Chief Marketing Officers and senior commercial leaders across a broad range of industries, including Consumer Products, Restaurants, Beauty, Travel and Hospitality, Healthcare, Financial Services, and Private Equity-backed businesses.

Jennifer came to Executive Search after more than two decades of doing the work she now places people into. At Colgate-Palmolive, she led global brand strategy, innovation, P&L management, and marketing teams across multiple geographies. Her time on the client side shapes every conversation, whether she is helping a company define the kind of leader they need, or working with a senior marketing executive to evaluate an opportunity. It is this experience that allows her to know, firsthand, what a great hire looks like.

Jennifer received her MBA in Marketing and Strategy from Columbia Business School. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Smith College and also studied at Dartmouth College.

Matthew Siegel, Principal, Marketing officers, CEO & BOARD SERVICES

Matthew Siegel focuses on helping B2B, technology and adjacent businesses recruit innovative, growth-oriented go-to-market leaders.

Matthew brings almost two decades of experience as a Chief Marketing and Chief Digital Officer to Korn Ferry. His search work includes CMOs and CEOs of Fortune 500 and PE-backed businesses.

He has served in multiple executive roles and consulted for companies large and small across technology, asset management and media focusing on matters of organizational design, go-to-market marketing strategy, technology strategy and innovation. He was also a management consultant and a successful technology entrepreneur. Matthew was Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Global Client Group for Aperture Investors, a US and European-based asset manager, and sat on the board of the firm’s Luxembourg UCITS complex. He was previously Chief Digital Officer for Roc Nation, Jay-Z’s global entertainment agency. He held various leadership roles at Viacom and co-founded multiple VC-backed startups including one of the first crowdsourcing platforms as well as a two-sided marketplace for skilled labor. Matthew has been recognized as an AdWeek CMO Innovator and as a member of Billboard’s 30 Under 30.

He earned his A.B. in Economics from Harvard and his M.P.A. in International Economic Policy and Management from Columbia.