Leadership

Elevating leaders to drive performance and transformational impact

In today’s increasingly complex world, leadership is more important than ever—crucial to organizational performance, transformational impact, and organizational health 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.

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.

HOW WE HELP CLIENTS

CEO & CXO journeys

We support CEOs and CXOs on their journeys to drive excellence and offer multi-client forums designed to inspire senior leaders.

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

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.