Elena Botelho
ELENA L. BOTELHO is co-author of the CEO Next Door: 4 Behaviors That Transform Ordinary People into World-Class Leaders. As a partner at leadership advisory firm ghSMART, Elena is passionate about helping CEOs accelerate their success, reach elite levels of performance and avoid painful setbacks.
Elena has also been involved with The CEO Genome Project, an extensive research and client practice that provides guidance to CEOs and executives on the path to becoming CEO about behaviors that lead to the top plus avoiding setbacks CEOs face. Elena is a member of McKinsey M&A Integration Council—an invitation-only forum where senior executives from major corporations to share M&A best practices.
Prior to joining ghSMART, Elena was an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, where she advised Fortune 500 companies on the issues of M&A, business strategy, organizational change, and operations. Her clients included major corporations in media, technology, and financial services.
