Carina Cortese

Senior Partner

Neon

Carina partners with CEOs and executive teams to build organizations that are strategically rigorous, adaptive, and deeply aligned around change. Her work sits at the intersection of leadership, behavior, culture, and organizational systems—helping leaders translate bold ambition into the capabilities, operating conditions, and human experiences required to drive transformation at scale. Since joining SYPartners in 2011, she has led enterprise-shaping work with IBM, Mars, Cencora, Equinix, AARP, and Mammoth Brands, among others. She also helped build SYPartners’ Strategy practice and advance the firm’s work at the intersection of human wisdom and AI.


Before consulting, Carina worked in theater as a performer, director, playwright, and producer—an experience that continues to shape her approach to leadership and change. She believes enduring progress must be emotionally resonant, deeply internalized, and collectively practiced. Having lived and worked across Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East, she brings a globally informed perspective to complexity and to helping leaders navigate tensions that define modern organizations: logic and empathy, creativity and systems thinking, human intuition and technological intelligence.

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