Pilar Carbonell is a bilingual leadership consultant specialising in executive development and leadership strategy.
She works across multiple sectors to provide leadership advisory services in international contexts, for corporate and private equity clients. Pilar has more than a decade of experience partnering with a range of multinational clients with a well known global leadership consultancy headquartered in London.
She typically works within the context of transformation, helping organisations translate their strategic agenda into a systemic development roadmap, through the design of individual, team and organisational interventions. She combines her cultural insight, global benchmarks and understanding of best practices with an in-depth psychological perspective.
Areas of expertise:
Leadership Strategy and Advisory: Articulation of the leadership agenda and transition journey required to achieve the organisational strategy.
Executive Assessment: Assessment of C-suite Leaders and selected talent pools to support development, recruitment and promotion.
Executive Coaching: Cross industry C-suite executives, MDs and BU heads, and HiPos in the context of development, onboarding or key leadership transitions.
Team Dynamics and Development; partnering HRD and CEO to align the Executive Team in service of the organisational agenda by exploring current and future state, and accelerators and blockers to growth.
Leadership Development: design and delivery of leadership and talent development programmes.
Identification of Potential: Helping organisations identify and embed best practices around the identification and development of potential.
Director/Managing Consultant
YSC Consulting
2016 -2020
Madrid
YSC Consulting is a global leadership strategy firm with a 30-year track record of partnering large multinationals with a specialist Private Equity practice.
In 2016 Pilar opened YSC’s Spanish Office in Madrid. In her role as Head of Spain, she grew the team and developed a solid portfolio of local clients, advising senior executives, boards, and investors in Spanish-based organisations on leadership strategy and people development matters. She specialised in team coaching and systemic interventions to support leadership transitions in M&A and change contexts.
Senior Consultant
YSC Consulting
2013 – 2016
London
In this role she focused on 1:1 in-depth assessment and coaching at C-Suite across FTSE 100 and in European PE portfolio companies. She was also client manager for various large corporate clients and responsible for the quality of YSC service provision, including individual and cohort executive assessment and development.
Talent Consultant
Vodafone UK
2012
Newbury
Vodafone UK is part of Vodafone Group a world-leading technology communications company present in 65 countries with 625 million+ global customers.
Seeking in-house corporate experience, Pilar took a year-long secondment to review and overhaul existing assessment practices at Vodafone UK. She devised and presented recommendations to CEO and Executive Team on best in class tools and led the design, delivery and implementation of new recruitment approaches across the Technology function. She also refreshed the volume recruitment approach and designed the graduate assessment process