KORN FERRY

Korn Ferry

Executive snapshot

• Global management consulting and talent solutions firm helping organizations design and implement talent strategies, leadership and workforce management, and organizational capabilities to improve performance.
• Organized around five primary engagement offerings and three connected capability elements:
  • Engagement offerings (solution areas): Consulting; Digital; Executive Search; Professional Search & Interim; RPO.
  • Foundational Assets: data, IP, and analytics used across offerings.
  • Capabilities: Organization Strategy; Assessment & Succession; Talent Acquisition; Leadership & Professional Development; Total Rewards; Board & CEO Services.
  • Integrated Solutions: combine multiple capabilities to address high-priority business challenges such as Sales Effectiveness & Revenue Growth; Productivity & Cost Optimization; Workforce Readiness & AI Enablement; Leadership & Succession; Reward, Engagement & Pay Transparency; Strategy Execution & Change Management.
• Go-to-market: "We Are Korn Ferry" — an enterprise-wide, client-needs-driven delivery model that crosses industries, regions and solutions.

Global footprint and workforce

• Regions: North America, EMEA, APAC, Latin America.
• Offices: 98 offices in 51 countries (as of April 30, 2026).
• Employees: 8,965 full-time professionals (as of April 30, 2026).
  • Consulting: 1,840 total (1,522 consultants/execution; 318 support)
  • Digital: 1,238 total (233 consultants/execution; 1,005 support)
  • Executive Search: 1,735 total (566 consultants/execution; 1,169 support)
  • Professional Search & Interim: 800 total (467 consultants/execution; 333 support)
  • RPO: 3,092 total (156 consultants/execution; 2,936 support)
  • Corporate: 260 (support)
• Client reach: global client base spanning Fortune 500, public institutions, and high-growth organizations.

Financial highlights (fiscal 2026)

• Fee revenue: $2,907.5 million
• Net income attributable to Korn Ferry: $277.4 million (net income margin 9.5%)
• Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA: $497.8 million (Adjusted EBITDA margin 17.1%)
• Diluted earnings per share (EPS): $5.22
• Capital allocation: $84.7 million in capital expenditures; $18.5 million in debt service costs; returned $116.1 million to shareholders via share repurchases and $104.6 million via dividends
• External reporting transition: beginning in Q1 fiscal 2027, external reporting will shift to a regional model (Americas, EMEA, APAC) while three revenue groupings remain (Search; Talent & Organizational Solutions; Workforce Solutions)

Segment performance and client metrics (fiscal 2026)

Consulting

• Fee revenue: $691.7 million
• Adjusted EBITDA: $118.4 million (margin 17.1%)
• Consultants/execution staff: 1,522; average bill rate: $458 per hour
• Client base: supports over 4,300 clients globally
• Cross-solution referrals: ~32% of Consulting fee revenue referred from other Korn Ferry solutions

Digital

• Fee revenue: $363.5 million
• Subscription/license revenue: $148.6 million (up 7.9% vs. 2025)
• Adjusted EBITDA: $113.1 million (margin 31.1%)
• Clients: more than 7,600 globally
• Cross-solution referrals: ~34% of Digital fee revenue referred from other solutions
• Digital develops and manages the Talent Suite platform and AI-enabled capabilities integrated with other solutions

Executive Search

• Fee revenue: $924.1 million
• Adjusted EBITDA: $237.4 million (margin 25.7%)
• Engagement activity: opened more than 6,500 new engagements; average 563 consultants per engagement
• Client base (Executive Search engagement clients): more than 3,700

Professional Search & Interim

• Fee revenue: $561.1 million
• Adjusted EBITDA: $121.2 million (margin 21.6%)
• Average bill rates: $145 per hour
• Client base: over 3,100 clients globally
• Cross-solution referrals: 26% of fee revenue referred from other Korn Ferry solutions

RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing)

• Fee revenue: $367.1 million
• Adjusted EBITDA: $57.7 million (margin 15.7%)
• New business: $543.9 million in fiscal 2026; 43% from new logo clients
• Client base: supports more than 250 enterprise clients
• Cross-solution referrals: 43% of fee revenue referred from other solutions

Additional context and capabilities

• Foundational Assets and data:
  • 115 million+ assessments conducted
  • 11,000+ validated success profiles covering 30,000+ job titles
  • Compensation and rewards data from 29 million+ professionals across 31,000+ organizations
  • Employee engagement benchmarks from approximately 44 million responses
  • Culture survey data from about 7.1 million individuals across 500 organizations
  • Pay policy and practice data spanning nearly 160 countries
• Foundational capabilities are integrated into a scalable Talent Suite, providing embedded or subscription-based access to insights and AI-enabled recommendations.
• Korn Ferry Institute (KFI): research and innovation hub providing analytics, insights, and behavioral science that underpin IP and service delivery.
• "We Are Korn Ferry" has increased cross-solution collaboration; cross-solution referrals rose from 14% in 2018 to 27% of consolidated fee revenue in fiscal 2026.
• Marquee and Diamond Accounts Program: 350 accounts representing approximately 40% of consolidated fee revenue as of fiscal year-end 2026. The program provides dedicated account leadership and cross-solution engagement for complex, long-term clients.

What Korn Ferry does in practice

• Strategy-to-execution support: advisory consulting and talent acquisition to design and implement leadership, organization structure, and workforce capabilities aligned to business goals.
• Integrated, technology-enabled delivery: embedded solutions and subscription offerings that integrate IP, data, and AI across client workflows.
• Global talent lifecycle services: organization strategy, leadership development, succession planning, executive and professional search, interim leadership, and large-scale recruitment process outsourcing.
• Client-centric delivery model: cross-solution collaboration under the "We Are Korn Ferry" model, with emphasis on long-term strategic partnerships and recurring revenue from cross-solution referrals.

In short

Korn Ferry is a global talent and organizational consulting firm delivering integrated, data-driven strategies and solutions across leadership, talent acquisition, rewards, and workforce capabilities, supported by a large Foundational Assets IP base and AI-enabled offerings. In fiscal 2026 the company generated $2.9075 billion in fee revenue, achieved $277.4 million in net income, and $497.8 million in Adjusted EBITDA, with 8,965 employees across 98 offices in 51 countries. Executive Search was the largest contributor of fee revenue at $924.1 million, followed by Consulting ($691.7m), Professional Search & Interim ($561.1m), Digital ($363.5m), and RPO ($367.1m).