Eva Sage-Gavin

Eva Sage-Gavin is senior managing director of Accenture’s Global Talent and Organization consulting practice.She helps Accenture’s clients transform leadership mindsets, talent, and cultures as they harness digital technologies to drive innovation and “lead in the new.” Spearheading a global team, Sage-Gavin is responsible for shaping the market strategy for the Talent & Organization practice across Accenture, including its offerings and investment initiatives. She also plays a key role in driving and evolving Accenture’s “future workforce” organization architecture.

Sage-Gavin has more than three decades of broad experience in Fortune 500 global consumer, technology and retail corporations. She has served in executive human resource officer and C-suite leadership roles at Gap, Inc.; PepsiCo; Disney Consumer Products; Sun Microsystems; and Xerox.

As a senior advisor at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Eva contributed to BCG's CEO Advisory Practice, directly coaching CEOs. She also served as a senior advisor to G100 companies, supporting CEOs, board directors and chief human resource officers.

She was the first female member of multiple public technology company boards (including Broadsoft which was recently acquired by Cisco) and is now co-chair of the Bay Area chapter of the Women Corporate Directors organization. She is executive-in-residence at Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and a guest lecturer at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. Eva was also the former Vice Chair of Skills for America's Future at the Aspen Institute and a member of the UpSkill America coalition.

Sage-Gavin holds a bachelor's degree in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University.