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Olga Nefedova

Expert Associate PartnerLondon

Olga Nefedova

Expert Associate PartnerLondon

Brings deep expertise on operational excellence and digital and agile issues, helping financial institutions and service organizations to design and deliver large-scale transformations

Olga has more than 15 years of industry experience in the operational-excellence, digital, and change-management functional areas. She focuses on serving financial institutions and service organizations in designing and implementing large-scale transformations.

Olga partners with companies—from executives to the back office—throughout their entire transformation journey. She helps them to restructure their organizations, design and implement digital strategies, optimize operational processes, build skills and knowledge, and measure and manage performance. Olga is experienced in designing and driving change—from recommendations to results—and building new capabilities at all levels of the organization to ensure sustainability of the transformation.

Examples of her recent client work include the following:

  • helping a global financial-services organization to design and implement a full-scale transformation, including changing the operating model, organizational structure, and pricing strategy; implementing productivity initiatives; and building change delivery processes and digital labs to enable change at scale
  • supporting a large building society in designing and implementing an agile at-scale operating model to deliver almost $4 million in cost savings in 3 years, including designing and implementing digital processes, an agile capability program, and an integrated governance model
  • helping a large European private bank to secure more than $35 million in cost savings across core processes, designing digital and process interventions, and establishing a capable delivery team
  • leading the design and implementation of an end-to-end digitization program for customer journeys for a large international bank

Prior to joining McKinsey, Olga held a number of senior positions in large corporations in the energy sector. In these roles, she helped build a quality-assurance platform for multiple businesses across the globe, led the design and delivery of a transformation program across three manufacturing sites, drove sales through the development of new products and business channels, and was responsible for overseeing the design and delivery of complex drilling projects in an entire region.

Olga is an agile and lean practitioner and holds Scrum Master and Lean Six Sigma black-belt certifications.

Past experience

Wood Group
Global head of quality and service excellence

Schlumberger
Process improvement manager
Field-operations regional manager

Mitsubishi Group
Business-development manager

Education

Warwick Business School
MBA, operations strategy

State University of Chemical Machinery (Moscow)
MSc, mechanical engineering