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Ian Jefferson

Senior PartnerWashington DC

Serves healthcare clients across the value chain and helps complex organizations undergo postmerger integrations, culture-change programs, and large-scale transformational change

Ian is a leader in McKinsey’s People & Organizational Performance Practice within healthcare. He serves healthcare clients across the value chain (commercial payors, hospital systems, medical-device companies, government agencies) and has significant experience helping complex organizations undergo postmerger integrations, culture-change programs, and large-scale transformational change.

Ian serves as lead faculty for McKinsey’s Change Leaders Forum, which brings together executives to build the skills required to lead successful change programs, and he developed the curriculum for the firm’s newest executive training offering—the Integration Leadership Forum.

Prior to joining McKinsey, Ian was a strategist in the White House and Department of Defense. He was part of the team that developed and implemented the president’s proposal for the new Department of Homeland Security. He has lived and worked in Australia, Belgium, and Russia and is now based in Washington, DC.

Published work

Higher ed is consolidating, transforming the sector,” McKinsey & Company, July 2023

From transition to transformation,” McKinsey & Company, December 2020

The state transformation mandate during COVID-19,” McKinsey & Company, June 2020

Equipping leaders for merger integration success,” McKinsey & Company, July 2018

Past experience

Office of the Secretary of Defense, US Department of Defense
Foreign affairs specialist

Office of the Secretary of Defense, US Department of Defense
Presidential management fellow (PMF)

Education

Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government
MPP, international security

Emory University
BA, political science and Russian language