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Marie Kvorning Veng

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Director, Work Design & Innovation at Mercury Insurance | Former Accenture Executive
San Francisco, California, United States

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  • Mercury Insurance
    Director, Work Design & Innovation
    Mercury Insurance
    Jun 2026 - Current (4 months)
  • HorizonMind Inc
    Advisory Board Member
    HorizonMind Inc
    Jan 2022 - Current (4 years 9 months)
    I advise the CEO and founding team of a health technology company on solution selling, operating model design, customer experience, and high-performing culture. My role is to help leadership translate vision into a more scalable business model and stronger customer adoption.

    I bring a practical, human-centered lens to growth and performance by coaching leaders, strengthening culture, and helping shape experiences that increase long-term impact. This advisory work reflects my broader passion for sustainable transformation, wellbeing, and empowering people to do their best work.
  • Accenture
    Change & Culture Lead, Song Reinvention Partner
    Accenture
    Dec 2025 - Jul 2026 (8 months)
    Accenture, San Francisco, CA & Copenhagen, Denmark
    I own and architect change and culture strategy for a major reinvention effort, partnering directly with 5 C-level leaders to scale new ways of working across 85K employees. My work helps organizations move through change with less disruption and more clarity, cohesion, and engagement.

    I design practical adoption approaches that protect daily operations while accelerating enterprise transformation. By aligning senior leadership, team behaviors, and cultural signals, I help large organizations sustain momentum during complex reinvention efforts.
  • Accenture
    Strategic Projects - Transformational Change Lead @ Transformational Change Hub
    Accenture
    Nov 2024 - Jul 2026 (1 year 9 months)
    I partner with Executive Advisory leaders to design and execute transformational change and culture activation across some of Accenture's most strategic initiatives. My focus is on scaling AI-enabled ways of working grounded in psychological safety, FLOW principles, and practical adoption across a 700K+ global organization.

    I lead teams of up to 10 direct reports while influencing more than 30 senior stakeholders without direct authority. In this role, I help convert enterprise ambition into real behavior change by connecting leadership alignment, operating model shifts, and measurable adoption outcomes.
  • Accenture
    Change & Culture Lead, Global HR Reinvention, Reinventing HR with AI
    Accenture
    Aug 2024 - Dec 2025 (1 year 5 months)
    San Francisco, CA
    I led end-to-end transformational change and culture strategy to embed AI into core HR, supporting 15K HR professionals and 700K employees. My focus was on helping people understand, adopt, and operationalize AI in ways that improved experimentation, confidence, and enterprise value.

    I built and operationalized the change and culture operating model and governance structure for a 10-person direct team and 30+ broader team members. I developed playbooks, templates, and leadership enablement approaches that helped the organization adopt new AI practices on time and on budget.
  • Accenture
    Change & Culture Lead, Global HR Reinvention 1.0
    Accenture
    Sep 2023 - Aug 2024 (1 year)
    San Francisco, CA & Copenhagen, Denmark
    I owned and designed empowerment-based leadership development, team effectiveness, and change initiatives during a major location restructure. My approach centered on helping leaders guide people through change with clarity, confidence, and shared ownership.

    I led 8 direct reports and influenced 20+ indirect senior stakeholders while maintaining stable engagement scores and avoiding disruption to HR delivery. This work was recognized as a best-in-class approach for managing change during a highly visible organizational transition.
  • Accenture
    Management Consulting Senior Principal, Talent & Organization
    Accenture
    Dec 2018 - Nov 2024 (6 years)
    I led complex human-centered transformation engagements for global clients including Google, Airbnb, and Cisco, helping leaders redesign ways of working, strengthen psychological safety, and improve adoption across organizations ranging from 1K to 13K users. I carried accountability for scope, budget, value realization, and senior stakeholder alignment while leading teams of up to 20 consultants.

    I was also recognized as a subject-matter sponsor for psychological safety and helped shape the narrative and go-to-market approach for the Fable+ Insight Scan diagnostic, contributing to $8M in revenue. Internally, I led FLOW-focused culture efforts that secured 20+ C-level sponsors and supported team norms that reduced meeting load by
  • Accenture
    Management Consulting Analyst to Principal, Talent & Organization
    Accenture
    May 2010 - Dec 2018 (8 years 8 months)
    Denmark, India, The Netherlands, and San Francisco Bay Area
    I progressed from analyst to principal over eight years, leading change management and transformation programs for multinational pharma, tech, and consumer clients. I became known for stepping into greenfield spaces, turning bold ideas into executable solutions, and building trust across functions, cultures, and leadership levels.

    Through these years, I designed process flows, governance models, change plans, communications strategies, and adoption metrics that aligned 2 to 5 functions and 3 to 10 stakeholders with very few escalations. I also helped launch the San Francisco Innovation Hub model, which was later expanded across five additional North America hubs, an
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  • SUNY Westchester Community College
    History of Jazz
    SUNY Westchester Community College
    This was next to my job as an Au Pair from 2002-2003
  • CEMS The Global Alliance in Management Education
    Master, International Management
    CEMS The Global Alliance in Management Education
    CEMS is a global alliance of academic and corporate institutions dedicated to educating and preparing future generations of international business leaders.

    Ranked no. 1 Master’s in Management in the World, Financial Times 2009. The programme has been in the top 3 ever since the ranking began in 2005.

    Substituted the second year of my master.
    3rd semester was in Vienna (se below), 4th semester at CBS, where I followed the courses: Leadership Across Borders and Sustainable Innovation. GPA: 12 (A)

    Vestas Business Project on creating an Employer Branding strategy to use for factory openings. Grade: 10 (B)

    All components except the internship was completed in June 2009 before I wrote my thesis.
  • Copenhagen Business School
    M.Sc, Strategy, Organisation & Leadership
    Copenhagen Business School
    Courses: Accounting & Performance Measurement in Conjunction with Organizational Design, Business Strategy in Conjunction with Managing Organizational Identity, Management of Meaning, De- and Reconstructing leadership and Dynamics of Governance.
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    Aurehøj Amstgymnasium
    Aurehøj Amstgymnasium
  • Copenhagen Business School
    B.Sc, Business, language & Culture (SPRØK)
    Copenhagen Business School
    German as second language
  • The Berlin School of Economics and Law
    International Business
    The Berlin School of Economics and Law
    Exchange as part of my B.Sc.
  • WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
    International Management
    WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
    Exchange as part of the CEMS degree - focus has been on management courses. Furthermore I was following business German in order to complete my exit test (which is part of CEMS).
  • Accenture
    Corporate Training, Project Management, Talent & Organisation
    Accenture
    Leading extraordinary teams
    Data visualization & storytelling
    Leading truly human teams
    Business Process Design
    Process Analytics
    Process view on organisations

    Coaching
    Communication planning & delivery
    Training planning & delivery
    Effective feedback
    Emotional intelligence at work
    Issue based problem solving and communication
    The power of the pyramid - Structuring an effective storyline
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    C-level engagement Academy
    Accenture corporate training
    Apr 2021 - Feb 2022 (11 months)
    Building skills, confidence and competence in engaging with the C-Suite
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    Global change lead for HR Reinvention @ Accenture
    Sep 2023 - Current (3 years 1 month)
    - Orchestrate, lead and design change interventions for 13K+ HR professionals during role relocations as part of a bigger Reinvention effort. This includes equipping our leaders with messaging, group coaching and skills to drive the transition while sustaining high performance within their teams
    - Leading the change and adoption strategy and plan working with change management teams in the markets (NA, GM, EMEA) for behavioral change expected due to changes to digital capabilities and changes in ways of working
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    T&O Go-To-Market lead for Enterprise Strategic Partnership with Atlassian
    Aug 2022 - Nov 2022 (4 months)
    - Standing up, kicked off and started execution of some of the key structures to develop and scale sales of the Enterprise Agility offering, including Transformational change, Leadership & Culture, Org Design and Talent/Skilling.
    - Driving the origination of general Enterprise Agility estimated to $4M and solutioning and scoping of the T&O aspect on some of the first few mega deals around enterprise agility. Total $$ pursuit involved with: $21M
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