CEO Excellence

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We support CEOs across all six dimensions of the CEO role

Set the direction
Align the organization
Mobilize through leaders
Engage the board
Connect with stakeholders
Manage personal effectiveness

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What makes a successful CEO?
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The CEO’s secret to successful leadership: CEO Excellence revisited
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The loneliest job? How top CEOs manage dilemmas and vulnerability
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CEO excellence: How do leaders assess their own performance?
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Featured experts

Carolyn Dewar
Senior PartnerBay Area
Delivers large-scale performance-improvement programs that foster culture change and counsels senior executives making leadership...
Blair Epstein
PartnerBay Area
Helps CEOs and leaders transform their organizations at scale, from strategy to execution
Scott Keller
Senior PartnerSouthern California
Counsels Fortune 100 leadership teams on enterprise-level transformation, culture-change programs, top-team performance, and...
Gautam Kumra
Senior Partner, and Chair, Asia (ex-China)Singapore
Chairman of McKinsey’s offices in Asia; helps McKinsey’s clients in Asia create change that matters, by building leading institutions...
Vik Malhotra
Senior PartnerNew York
Focuses on counseling CEOs and Boards on performance transformation, corporate strategy, governance, growth strategies, organizational...
Joydeep Sengupta
Senior PartnerSingapore
Leads McKinsey’s Center for CEO Excellence in Asia and works with leading companies to transform their businesses
Sander Smits
Senior PartnerAmsterdam
Transforms operational performance and optimizes research and development for leading companies in the advanced industries sector...
Mukund Sridhar
Senior PartnerSingapore
Leads McKinsey’s Real Estate Practice in Asia and Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure Practice in Southeast Asia; co-founder and...
Kurt Strovink
Senior PartnerNew York
Leads our global CEO Initiative to help build great CEOs and CEO counselors and the New York office as its managing partner;...