Tom Welchman

About Tom

Tom is a partner in McKinsey’s People & Organizational Performance Practice and a leader of our transformation solutions group. He combines over a decade of advisory experience with global leadership of the firm’s digital and analytics products for operating model and talent work.

Tom brings leading-edge knowledge and pattern recognition in organizational design, transformation, and analytics to address his clients’ challenges. Using his expertise, he counsels clients in multiple sectors, particularly telecom, media, and insurance.

Examples of his recent client work include the following:

• applying traditional organizational design, zero-based budgeting, and agile approaches to redesign operating models in more than 15 major organizations
• diagnosing and embedding behavioral change in more than 100 transformations, helping to create new performance-sustaining habits
• deploying advanced analytics in strategic workforce planning to deliver a new talent strategy that helped a bank build its workforce of the future

Tom is a lead facilitator for McKinsey’s Change Leaders Forum and a guest speaker at INSEAD on organizational analytics. He also acts as regular faculty at the Marketing Academy’s fellowship program for chief marketing officers looking to transition to CEO roles.

Before joining McKinsey, Tom worked as an engagement manager at a strategy-consulting company, focusing mainly on corporate strategy, leadership, and analytics in the healthcare sector.