Darius is a partner in McKinsey’s Atlanta office and a leader in the Transformation Practice in North America. Darius helps organizations unlock sustained bottom-line impact through enterprise-wide transformations that build capabilities from the C-suite to the frontline. Darius has experience across a variety of industries, including travel, logistics and transport, consumer, retail, and technology.
Examples of Darius’ recent client work include the following:
- architecting an end-to-end transformation journey at an iconic apparel retailer to set a course for improved efficiency, gross margin, and growth
- orchestrating an enterprise-wide transformation effort at a leading logistics company to identify savings opportunities, roadmap initiatives to capture the value, and then execute value capture and reinvestment for growth
- designing a frontline sales force effectiveness and change management program to institute selling and performance management best practices at a leading consumer electronics retailer
- supporting a global airline on customer experience transformation planning and implementation
Published Work
VIDEO
The transformation office: Key success factors, McKinsey & Company, July 2019
Growth initiatives in transformation: A conversation with Chris Angevine and Darius Bates, McKinsey & Company, July 2019
Turning transformation potential into impact: A conversation with Chris Angevine and Darius Bates, McKinsey & Company, July 2019
The Transformation office: One source of truth: A conversation with Chris Angevine and Darius Bates, McKinsey & Company, July 2019
PUBLICATIONS
“The case for inclusive growth,” McKinsey & Company, April 2021
“Transformation in uncertain times: Tackling both the urgent and the important,” McKinsey & Company, February 2021
Education
Duke University, Fuqua School of Business
MBA, finance and decision sciences
Washington University in St. Louis
BA, marketing and psychology