Elena Karakizis

Global IT Sales Gen AI Change Lead | Human Performance Manager at Accenture

Role: Human Performance Manager at Accenture
Location: Seattle, WA, US
LinkedIn followers: 500 followers

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About Elena Karakizis

Elena is an accomplished change management executive with over a decade of experience, specializing in crafting human-centric strategies for digital transformations, enterprise transformation, Sales Enablement, Gen AI, M&A. Renowned for her talent development prowess, she passionately coaches high-performing global teams. Committed to diversity and inclusion, Elena advocates for psychologically safe workplaces as Accenture’s Pacific Northwest LGBTIQ+ ERG Co-Lead and Mental Health Ally.Before joining Accenture, Elena worked in advertising and earned an ADDY Award for her campaign strategy and execution. She is a graduate of The University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Media & Communications.

Experience

Human Performance Manager
Accenture
Nov 2021 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
CURRENT ROLE:• Sales & Pricing Gen AI Change Management Lead for Accenture Global IT. Responsible for designing people enablement and adoption strategies for Salesforce and Accenture proprietary Gen AI solutions used by Sales Excellence and GTM Accenture Consulting teams. FORMER ROLES:• Accenture CIO Change Management Lead managing products for Accenture Commercial, Accenture Song and Technology. Leveraged previous role experience to establish this new tower of work, implementing location strategies to deliver results with high-performing global teams in Argentina, India and Philippines. In addition, Elena is also the Change Delivery Lead for Accenture\'s Ecosystems, Partnerships & Sales IT Transformation. Leveraging 5+ years of client-facing change expertise in CPQ, Resale and Partner Sales to drive adoption for a digitally integrated Ecosystem Suite, primarily leveraging Salesforce.• Accenture Legal IT Change Management Capability Lead for new initiatives, analytics and operations programs, partnering with CIO Legal Capability Lead to align high value products with high performing change management delivery. Managed a portfolio of 9 projects globally. Redesigned change team op model to streamline business engagement, increase collaboration and establish efficiencies, up-leveling core team members and establishing sustainable psychologically safe team culture. Elena developed the Legal IT change team to be the “go to” team in her practice, known for being in high demand and having very low attrition.

Education

University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Skills

Management Consulting
Strategy
Digital Strategy
Digital Marketing
Social Media Marketing
Digital Photography
Social Media
Design Thinking
Marketing
Advertising
Email Marketing
Blogging
Adobe Creative Suite
Change Management
Strategic Communications
Digital Media
Public Relations

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Current company

Accenture

Business Consulting and Services · 10K employees · Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, IE

Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale. Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $70 billion in FY25 revenue. Visit us at accenture.com. This LinkedIn company page is moderated. When engaging with Accenture, we encourage everyone to: - Use common courtesy and be respectful of others. - Create your own original content and avoid content that you know to be fraudulent. - Never repost someone else's copyrighted work, unless you have permission. - Never post personal, identifying, or confidential information. We reserve the right to delete comments or posts we deem to be: - Profane, obscene, inappropriate, offensive, abusive material. - Spam, repeated comments and commercial messages and personal advertisements. - Discriminatory or that contain hateful speech of any kind regarding age, gender, race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability. - Threats; personal attacks; abusive, defamatory, derogatory, or inflammatory language; or stalking or harassment of any individual, entity or organization. - False, inaccurate, libelous, or otherwise misleading in any way.

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