McKinsey Academy

McKinsey Academy accelerates professional growth to sustain transformational change

In a world of constant change, strong leadership matters more than ever. Leaders need the skills and mindsets to inspire trust, drive innovation, and guide their teams through uncertainty. McKinsey Leadership Academy helps organizations build these capabilities at scale through practical, engaging learning grounded in McKinsey’s expertise in leadership and behavior change.

Going beyond traditional training, our blended learning journeys are tailored to your organization’s context, helping leaders turn insight into action through real-world application. We integrate AI to create more personalized experiences, with opportunities for coaching and feedback to reinforce learning along the way. The result: leaders who build lasting capabilities, strengthen their teams, and are better equipped to drive meaningful, sustainable change.

McKinsey Management Program (MMP)

Powers transformations and "activates the middle" of organizations by equipping leaders with the foundational leadership and management capabilities necessary to drive impact.

AI Leadership Accelerator

Equips leaders and managers with the leadership skills needed to bring a human-centric approach to navigating and leveraging artificial intelligence effectively.

Rewired Leadership Essentials (RLE)

This multimodal, experiential learning journey equips leaders with the necessary skills, behaviors, and mindsets to drive successful digital and AI transformations within their organizations.

Ability to Execute (A2E) Lead

Address the underlying mindsets of leaders to ensure sustained behavior change through the application of 10 core Principles of leadership across three areas: Lead Self, Lead Team, and Lead Mission.

Ability to Execute (A2E) Essentials

Empower all employees—from senior leaders to the front line—with the foundational skills needed for effective day-to-day execution through 9 Essential Skills.

Get to know us

What we do

As the world rapidly evolves, so must the skills and competencies of an organization. Through McKinsey Academy, we teach and reinforce the skills and behaviors that individuals and organizations need to excel. We help build capabilities and change day-to-day mindsets and behaviors through a broad range of techniques, including digital and virtual programs, expert and peer coaching, on-the-job observation and feedback, reflection exercises, and simulations. This behavioral science–based approach helps individuals acquire new mindsets and skills, apply them in the context of real work, and build new habits that drive and sustain lasting change.

Acquire

In-person and virtual workshops
Digital learning
Experiential Go & Sees

Apply

Fieldwork initiatives
Performance support, including job aides, tools, and templates
Individual and team assignments
Peer learning teams
Expert coaching
Sponsor and manager coaching

Sustain

Behavior change supports
Reinforcement, including nudges, reminders, and microlearning

Impact Stories

Creating an energy industry leader in cost-competitiveness

Transforming leadership at a global retailer

Our Assets

Technology and tools

Seamless multi-device experience platform, including gamification, social learning, reinforcements, and learner dashboards

Experiential learning

20+ capability centers, model factories, immersive experience studios, go-and-see visits, and all-inclusive learning campuses around the globe

Offerings and content

350+ in-person and digital modules, as well as standardized assessments and mini programs

Expert team

Hundreds of learning design and delivery consultants, instructional designers, program managers, operations experts, and change facilitators worldwide

About us

When McKinsey Academy first launched in 2014, we provided clients with tool kits for developing capabilities in problem solving, communications, and strategy. Today, we have more than 30 offerings. Our best-in-class facilitators draw on their vast industry expertise to bring these trainings to life. McKinsey has been recognized with more than 40 Brandon Hall HCM Excellence Awards over the past seven years in recognition of our distinct learning and experiences.

Learn more about our current leadership.