In today’s dynamic world, leadership is more important than ever – crucial to organizational performance, transformational impact, and organizational heath as societies, industries, and organizations experience major disruptions. Organizations want to develop more and better leaders to drive success. However, they often struggle to fill the gap and sustain the impact of leadership development efforts.
Helping organizations elevate leaders to drive performance and transformational impact in an environment of increasing uncertainty and complexity.
McKinsey helps clients across industries and geographies develop best-in-class leaders and leadership strategies by bringing together our unmatched depth and breadth of experience, deep commitment to leadership development, vast network of partnerships and collaborations, world-class faculty and coaches, and impact-tested proprietary programs, assets, and tools.
What we do
Maximizing the effectiveness of leaders by using five proven recipes.
Leadership strategy
We help CEOs and CHROs translate business strategy into leadership qualities, capabilities, mindsets, and behaviors required to improve the odds of success by 5x+. Our approach:
- Architect leadership strategies
- Develop leadership model and architecture
- Create blueprint of programs, journeys, and experiences
CEO and CXO journeys
We support CEOs, CXOs, on their journeys to drive excellence and offer multi-client forums designed to inspire senior leaders.
Team effectiveness
By teaching leaders how to radically increase the effectiveness of their diverse, dynamic, and dispersed teams, we accelerate value through the art and science of team effectiveness
Capability building at scale
We show leaders how to encourage and role model change, increasing their effectiveness by 5x+, especially during major organizational performance and transformation initiatives.
- Transform leaders at the top and emerging high-potential rising stars
- Build leadership mindsets, capabilities and practices
Corporate academy
We expand sustainable impact by building in-house corporate leadership academies and infrastructure to ensure the whole organization benefits. We partner from strategy development through program design, prototyping and smart scaling.
Featured Capabilities
Ability to Execute
Build the skills and mindsets that matter most, while empowering employees to improve the way they work
McKinsey Management Program
Develop transformative leadership mindsets and capabilities
McKinsey Academy
McKinsey Academy accelerates professional growth to sustain transformational change
Featured Insights
Book Excerpt - McKinsey Quarterly
The versatile leader: How learning to adapt makes CEOs better
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Leaders benefit from seeking out diverse experiences, displaying deep curiosity, and knowing when to speak up.
Book - Featured Insights
The Journey of Leadership: How CEOs Learn to Lead From the Inside Out
This book is the first-ever explanation of McKinsey’s step-by-step approach to transforming leaders both professionally...
Interactive
What matters most? Eight CEO priorities for 2024
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Forming the right agenda is not getting easier. Here’s our annual attempt to cut through the clutter and zero in on things...
Interview
Travel Disruptors: Capturing B2B growth
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Expedia Group powers many other companies’ travel interfaces and inventories. Ariane Gorin, president of Expedia for Business,...
Featured Experts
Maitham Albaharna
PartnerDubai
Designs and leads large-scale organizational transformations, driving higher performance through enhanced capabilities, leadership,...
Marla Capozzi
PartnerBoston
Designs and leads transformation programs for senior executives on the strategy, innovation, digital, and inspirational leadership...
Gemma D’Auria
Senior partner, global leader of McKinsey’s Apparel, Fashion & Luxury sectorMilan
Supports retail, fashion, and luxury brands in driving transformations for higher performance and health
Faridun Dotiwala
Partner Mumbai
Leads performance transformations that boost organizational health, facilitating stronger leadership, shaping culture, and counseling...
Florian Pollner
PartnerZurich
Helps leaders enhance their personal effectiveness, manage talent globally, and drive cultural change in their organizations