About Vivian Garcia-Tunon
Vivian Garcia-Tunon has spent more than 20 years guiding CEOs and their teams at every point of inflection: from business planning and scaling to IPO readiness, sale, acquisition, and integration. Her work has helped boards, founders, and senior executive teams navigate succession, transformation, and the people-side of risk across financial services, private equity, and Fortune 500 enterprises. Building diverse leadership benches has been a throughline of her career, from a 40% lift in diverse senior pipelines as an in-house HR leader to founding one of the few woman-owned leadership advisory firms serving the C-suite today.
Vivian is the founder and CEO of VGT People Advisory, a leadership advisory firm serving boards, CEOs, and C-suite executives. Through VGT, she advises clients during the most consequential moments of the corporate lifecycle: strategic planning, leadership transitions, IPO readiness, M&A people integration, succession and bench planning, and organizational transformation. Her clients include Credit Suisse, Capital One, TIAA, T. Rowe Price, McKinsey & Co., and Fordham University.
Prior to founding VGT People Advisory, Vivian spent her career as an HR business partner and recruiting leader, helping high-performing businesses grow faster by enabling the people and the business. She began in investment banking at Credit Suisse First Boston (now UBS) and went on to senior roles at American Capital Strategies (now Ares Management) and Capital One.
Vivian is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), Certified in Applied Positive Psychology (CAPP), and credentialed in a range of leadership and team assessment tools. She is a member of the International Coaching Federation and the National Association of Women Business Owners, and earned her bachelor’s degree from Fordham University.
Vivian partners with executive teams on the human-capital priorities that determine whether strategy gets executed at inflection points. Her expertise includes CEO and C-suite succession and bench planning; the people side of M&A from due diligence through integration; IPO and capital-event readiness; talent strategy; organizational culture and transformation; women’s leadership; and building diverse leadership pipelines.
