Laura is a senior partner, whose work aims for global impact with local grounding. She leads McKinsey’s Bay Area office and serves as managing partner for the firm’s Western region of the United States, which includes client service across California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Idaho, Wyoming, Alaska, Hawaii, and Montana. She is also a director of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), aiding decision-making on the economic and business issues most critical to the world’s companies and policy leaders.
As a PhD cancer biologist, Laura has a long history of counseling healthcare institutions globally. She brings insights from a wide range of public and private sector industries, including life sciences, healthcare payors and providers, insurance, transportation, higher education institutions and academic medical centers, and technology and consumer companies across the United States, Europe, and Asia.
She helps organizations find growth from new products, services, technologies, and business models. She also advises on capital reallocation, commercialization, and the workforce of the future, and leads innovation, digital, and agile transformations.
Laura previously served as co-leader of McKinsey’s global Innovation Practice and has led research on innovation, growth, and the economics of healthcare and life sciences. Her recent work includes The next gold rush: How the Bay Area can keep its edge in the AI era, showcased at the inaugural IDEASF conference and in her subsequent appearance on NPR’s The Forum. She is a frequent speaker at conferences on innovation, healthcare, and women’s leadership and has authored publications in journals, including Nature Reviews Drug Discovery.
Laura has served on the boards of nonprofit organizations, including the California Academy of Sciences. A former college water polo player, she enjoys hiking, swimming, and traveling with her family.
