Supporting executives to step successfully into C-suite roles
Business
Do you have a clear read on current business performance and alignment on future priorities?
Culture
Which shifts in culture will have the greatest impact and how will you influence them?
Team
Do you have the right leadership team and are you continually improving performance?
Myself
Have you done the work to get up to speed and build on your strengths?
External stakeholders and Board
Are you ready to step up and strengthen your relationships with the board and key stakeholders?
We support transitioning executives with the following:
Data-driven insights
on the most effective moves to make and when should you make them
Finely calibrated perspectives
on your company’s performance and important trends both inside and outside your industry
Leadership development
personal career coaching focused on setting priorities, engaging with the board, and establishing a function
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What makes a CEO “exceptional”?
We assessed the early moves of CEOs with outstanding track records; some valuable lessons for leadership transitions emerged.
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How CFOs become CEOs
Limited operational experience is not necessarily a barrier to the top job. Here’s what CFOs must do to jump to the next level.
McKinsey CFO App
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The strategy leader’s evolving mandate
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Strategy leaders have taken on additional responsibilities over the past decade in response to increasing volatility and shifting mandates.
Our experts
Kurt Strovink
Senior PartnerNew York
Leads our global CEO Initiative to help build great CEOs and CEO counselors and the New York office as its managing partner;...
Michael Birshan
Senior PartnerLondon
Global coleader of our Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice, partnering with bold and determined leaders to set strategy, transform...
Carolyn Dewar
Senior PartnerBay Area
Delivers large-scale performance-improvement programs that foster culture change and counsels senior executives making leadership...
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