Overview
Katrina Seykora is a principal in Heidrick & Struggles’ Philadelphia office and director of strategic initiatives for the global Industrial, Private Capital, and Healthcare & Life Sciences practices. She focuses on CEO and board director searches for private equity-backed and publicly-traded clients across a variety of sectors, including diversified manufacturing, process industries, B2B services, logistics, aerospace and defense, and industrial technology.
Experience
Katrina advises private equity sponsors and public company boards and management teams on executive and board-level leadership needs related to growth, transformation, and succession. Her work spans new platform builds, leadership transitions, and succession planning for companies at various stages of ownership and scale.
Katrina partners closely with investors and directors to execute board, CEO, president, and general manager searches aligned with business strategy and operating priorities. She advises on leadership assessment and governance, helping clients strengthen executive capability and board composition in complex and evolving environments.
Working in close partnership with colleagues across the consumer, technology, and life sciences practices, Katrina collaborates on engagements focused on board effectiveness and governance and brings an integrated perspective to leadership and organizational challenges.
Education
Philanthropy and Service
Since 2021, Katrina has been a member of Make-A-Wish’s Emerging Leaders Board for the Philadelphia, Delaware, and Susquehanna Valley chapter.