John’s expertise is in talent management, helping organizations and C-suite leaders navigate large-scale change. Whether it’s transformation, M&A, or top-team effectiveness, he brings deep experience in workforce and talent strategy across a broad range of industries.
John is a leader in our M&A Practice and manages numerous pre- and post-M&A initiatives. He counsels personnel on commercial transformations and frequently works with C-suite executives on large-scale leadership programs.
His recent client experience includes the following:
- leading an end-to-end transformation of a healthcare organization in the United States, identifying approximately $3 billion in cost reduction and revenue benefit
- leading the transformation office for a life-science organization. The initiative included value capture, organization design, operating model, and organizational health, and resulted in more than $100 million run-rate savings
- launching an “agile talent win room” focused on hiring employees with new profiles, such as digital and coding, which included developing employee value propositions and a five-year talent strategy; this resulted in the fastest hire time in the company’s history and a 100 percent offer-to-accept rate of candidates
- developing a post-merger talent strategy for a company that included capability mapping, talent attraction strategy, top-team effectiveness, and future-state culture development. The project led to significantly improved employee retention and the highest employee engagement scores in the company’s history
Aside from client engagements, John helps to lead transformation for McKinsey’s own global talent attraction. He convenes roundtables that bring together top business leaders across the region. He sits on the board of overseers at Babson College and is involved in the alumni association of Harvard Business School, and in the Merrimack Valley community.