The latest issue of McKinsey Quarterly’s yearlong 60th-anniversary celebration centers on one of business’s most enduring challenges: growth. Get to know the authors behind the articles as they explore how companies can deliver sustainable value during both good and bad times. Highlights include our cover story, “Achieving growth: Putting leadership mindsets and behaviors into action”; an interactive feature spotlighting eight breakthrough innovations reshaping industries; and a bonus collection of 18 classic McKinsey Quarterly articles from the past six decades. All “Q60” content is available with a free digital Quarterly membership.
Matt Banholzer, Chicago
Matt leads our Strategic Growth & Innovation Practice globally and helps organizations create new value by uncovering previously unidentified opportunities and working with them to build an engine to strategize for and sustain new growth and innovation. He also brings deep experience in generating performance improvements that link bold strategies and portfolio designs with full-enterprise diligence and improvement planning.
Featured article: Revolutionary innovations propelling growth
Michael Birshan, London
Michael is a senior partner in London and also serves as the managing partner of McKinsey UK, Ireland, and Israel. He is a member of McKinsey’s Shareholders Council, which functions as the firm’s global board of directors. Previously, he was global co-leader of the firm’s Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice and a member of the McKinsey Global Institute Council. He has served companies around the world across a diverse set of industries, as well as institutions in the public and social sectors. His deepest sector expertise is in energy, materials, and industrials.
Featured article: Achieving growth: Putting leadership mindsets and behaviors into action
Kersten Heineke, Frankfurt
Kersten is dedicated to the future of mobility and serves clients in three main areas: the automotive industry, other incumbent industries, and mobility disruptors and investors in new mobility. His focus areas are shared and autonomous mobility, micromobility, urban mobility, and business building around mobility topics. Working with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), suppliers, mobility providers, technology companies, cities, transport authorities, and financial investors, he specializes in the impact of disruptions on transportation.
Featured article: Beyond the start-up phase: Recipes for growth at mobility companies
María del Mar Martínez, Madrid
María is a core member of the European Banking and Risk & Resilience Practice. She has more than 20 years’ experience advising leading financial institutions in Europe and Latin America on their most complex business challenges. She has advised several institutions on growth programs through high-value customer segment approaches and product innovation in the areas of consumer credit and others. She has also led commercial transformations, including commercial productivity programs, digital sales and distribution strategy, and the derived organizational and change implications for banks.
Featured article: How women can steer toward growing industries and companies
Kelsey Robinson, Boston
Kelsey partners with executives to integrate digital into all facets of their business and marketing strategies. Drawing on extensive experience in digital marketing, customer relationship management, and customer analytics, she helps clients drive sales performance. Since joining McKinsey, she has advised executives as they seek ways to drive overall growth and to improve the effectiveness of their marketing. Focusing on fostering strategic and sustainable business growth, she has partnered with companies in the retail, consumer tech, telecom, travel, and media sectors.
Featured article: Unlocking the next frontier of personalized marketing
Brooke Weddle, Washington DC
As a leader in the firm’s People & Organizational Performance Practice, Brooke helps organizations across the world achieve sustained performance through transformation. Globally, she leads the Change Leaders Forum, our executive capability-building series on transformational change, and our organizational work in advanced industries (aerospace and defense, automotive, and electronics). In addition, she leads the firm’s culture-and-change management work in North America. Most recently, Brooke led the firm’s portfolio of digital solutions, overseeing global client delivery of proprietary analytics tools for performance and health transformations.
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