Damini Arora is Executive Director at Russell Reynolds Associates in Australia, where she has worked since January 2025 advising boards and CEOs on executive search, succession planning and leadership development challenges, with a specialist focus on Real Assets sectors including real estate, energy infrastructure and agribusiness across Australia and New Zealand. She brings over 20 years of experience across consulting, financial services and technology-enabled transformation. Prior to Russell Reynolds Associates, she spent eight years at McKinsey & Company, most recently as Engagement Manager from November 2020 to January 2025, where she led large-scale enterprise agility transformations, leadership development programs and generative AI initiatives across complex organizations. Earlier, she served as Senior Implementation Coach at McKinsey from 2016 to 2020. Before McKinsey, she worked at National Australia Bank in multiple roles from 2004 to 2016, including Senior Consultant Coach, Business Architect, Solution Architect and Analyst/Developer, focusing on large-scale transformation, agile delivery and operating model design. She also worked as Vice President at Barclays in London from 2012 to 2013 in enterprise architecture and strategy. She holds an MBA from Cranfield School of Management and a Master’s Degree in Information Systems from the University of Melbourne.