Our most popular insights over the past month touch on how organizations and individuals can overcome current challenges and prepare for the months and years ahead. Meet the McKinsey leaders behind these insights, which address employee disengagement and attrition, the effects of generative AI, how individuals can contribute to higher living standards and a greener world, effectively communicating the value of companies’ sustainability initiatives, and more.
Aaron De Smet is a senior partner in the New Jersey office. He counsels leadership teams as they transform their organizations to improve performance, organizational health, speed, and agility. He is also an expert on organizational design, corporate culture, leadership development, team effectiveness, capability building, and transformational change. Much of Aaron’s work focuses on helping large distributed organizations achieve growth, innovation, productivity, and organizational agility. He serves clients across several industries, including agriculture, biotechnology, chemicals, energy, financial services, and healthcare.
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Kweilin Ellingrud is a senior partner in the Minneapolis office and director of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI). She has led McKinsey’s life insurance work in North America and is a member of the North American Operations leadership team. She has broad experience redesigning operating models to increase operational efficiency and effectiveness through process redesign, digital, and analytics. She is a frequent speaker at global conferences and also works directly with global philanthropies, multilateral organizations, and companies on how to move toward gender and racial equality.
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Nick Leung is a senior partner in the Hong Kong office and has been chairman of McKinsey’s Greater China region since 2010. He has overseen the tripling of the firm’s presence in Greater China, the opening of two new branch locations, and the election of over 70 new Chinese partners. Nick has served a range of global and Chinese companies in various sectors, including financial institutions, industrials, infrastructure, logistics, and principal investors. A frequent speaker at external events and conferences, he is an adjunct professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management and hosts a podcast, McKinsey on China.
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Anu Madgavkar is a partner with the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) in the New Jersey office. She leads global research focused on sustainable and inclusive growth; labor markets, human capital, and the future of work; technology’s economic impact; digital and financial inclusion; and gender economics. Anu was previously based in Mumbai, where she co-led McKinsey’s financial institutions work in India. She served a range of clients, including top-tier global banks, Indian state-owned banks, capital markets, and infrastructure-focused financial institutions across portfolio mix, organization, and product market strategy in wealth management, wholesale banking, life insurance, and retail banking.
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Werner Rehm is a partner in the New Jersey office. He is a corporate-finance expert and one of the leaders of Strategy & Corporate Finance Insights, which is McKinsey’s center of competence for financial and capital-markets analysis, M&A, and valuation. He also leads the firm’s work in investor relations and investor communications. Werner advises teams and clients on in-depth financial analyses, corporate and business unit valuation, M&A, capital structure, dividend policy, investor relations, and capital-market diagnostics to identify, value, and prioritize corporate strategies. He works across all industries and has deep experience in the high-tech, industrial, transportation, and pharmaceutical sectors.
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Alexander Sukharevsky is a senior partner in the London office and the global leader of QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, since 2020. He has overseen QuantumBlack’s expansion and emergence within the firm as a recognized leader in applied artificial intelligence. He leads digital operations around the world and focuses on scaling the use of artificial intelligence through the development of proprietary assets and partnerships with an ecosystem of leading technology companies.
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