Laura helps organizations respond to disruptive change through their strategies, business development, and resourcing. She has deep expertise in leading multiyear strategic transformations in organizations across media, financial services, and high-tech industries pivoting from B2B to B2C, shifting from product to services, or navigating tech-driven disruptions. Additionally, she has led growth transformations with clients in high tech, consumer, insurance, and media, including redesigning their commercial operating models, business development functions, and strategic planning processes.
She also brings to her work extensive experience reshaping innovation pipelines and core processes, including the funding and governance needed to optimize overall growth performance. Additionally, she helps organizations assess and transform their mindsets and behaviors to create a stronger culture of innovation.
Examples of Laura’s recent client work include the following:
- created a business development plan for a new line of business for a Fortune 50 high-tech services company
- led digital strategy creation for a payments company and created a new resourcing model for prioritizing digital investments
- redefined innovation investments for a global media company to enable balancing new disruptor businesses with traditional offerings
In addition to her client work, Laura has led research on digital transformations, innovation, and growth strategy, speaking publicly and publishing often on topics such as the use of gen AI. She led McKinsey’s thinking on the impact of COVID-19 on the pace of business and the use of technology in business and by consumers. She also serves on the editorial board of McKinsey on Finance, McKinsey’s publication that offers insights and perspectives for CFOs and finance leaders on value creation, strategy, performance, and emerging trends such as AI.
Laura holds a doctoral degree in theoretical physical chemistry and undergraduate degrees in physics and chemistry.
