About Colin
Colin Price, a director in McKinsey’s London office, leads the firm’s global Organisation Practice. For more than 20 years he has helped executives tackle their most important organisational challenges, including performance transformation, behavioural change, post-merger integration and organisation design. He has advised some of the world’s largest corporations and major public-sector organisations.
Colin has directed multiyear change programmes and turnarounds that have substantially improved companies’ financial performance and underlying organisational health; supported major mergers that have achieved much greater synergies than anticipated; delivered significant savings through cost-cutting and reorganisation efforts; and worked with one of the world’s largest health systems to design and implement a large-scale social movement to galvanise the system behind a quality strategy.
In addition to his McKinsey roles, Colin holds a visiting professorship at Bath University focusing on organisational behavior and leadership, and is an associate fellow of Oxford University.
Published work
“Leadership and the art of plate spinning,” McKinsey Quarterly, November 2012
Beyond Performance: How great organizations build ultimate competitive advantage, Wiley, 2011
Mergers: Leadership, performance and corporate health, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
“Business and the art of transformation,” McKinsey Quarterly, August 2006
“The psychology of change management,” McKinsey Quarterly, June 2003
Past experience
| PricewaterhouseCoopers |
World managing partner, strategic change |
| British Telecom |
Strategist |
Education
| University of Bath |
MSc in behavioural science and industrial relations |
| University of Birmingham |
BA in economics |