Tiffany Burns is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, where she leads the firm’s Atlanta office and serves as the Managing Partner for the Southern region of the U.S., which includes offices in Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Houston, and Miami.
She is a leader in McKinsey & Company’s global Consumer practice and has extensive experience leading enterprise performance transformations across both growth and productivity areas. She has worked with many retailers, brands, and hospitality companies with a focus on the future of commerce in response to evolving consumer expectations and the rise of innovative technologies.
Examples of her recent client work include the following:
- transforming operations of a multi-banner retailer to deliver $500M in improved value
- delivering double-digit EBITDA growth by modernizing business practices and transforming functions to deliver $750M in value
- achieving $1B in cost reduction and $1.5B in working capital improvement
- establishing a new growth business in social-driven sales growth to offset declines in the core business
Tiffany is a member of the Atlanta philanthropic community, serving on the board of the Rotary Club, Leadership Atlanta, The Georgia Tech Athletic Association, Pace Academy, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Foundation Board, Woodruff Arts Foundation, and as the co-founder of the Rising Seniors Foundation.
Tiffany has a B.A. degree in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, an MBA from Harvard Business School, J.D. from Harvard Law School, and Master’s in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.