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Jimmy Bijlani San Francisco, CA BS, Rutgers University Boston Consulting Group IBM Google
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If you want to upgrade your Claude skills, this self-paced program from Jimmy Bijlani will help you do so. Anthropic has completely taken the AI world by STORM. Claude, Claude Code, MCP, Skills, subagents, artifacts, projects… it’s a lot. And it’s moving fast. 😅 For people who already use LLMs every day, some of this […]

Stefano Michele Esposizione Buenos Aires, Argentina MBA, INSEAD Bain & Co Cirion Technologies Telecom Italia Spa Umbrex member
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Stefano Esposizione. Stefano is an executive with over 25 years of experience in procurement and supply chain transformation. He has led large-scale organizations across Latin America, delivering significant cost savings and operational improvements. Stefano holds an MBA from INSEAD and has a background in corporate leadership, consulting, and entrepreneurial initiatives.

Denis Akutsu São Paulo, Brazil MBA, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Bain Oliver Wyman Expedia Umbrex member
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Denis Akutsu. Denis | Former Bain & Company and Oliver Wyman consultant with executive leadership as Senior Director of CX & Sales Operations at Expedia, OLX, and Gympass. Expert in driving large transformations, including Revenue Growth, Strategic Planning, Organizational Design, and PMI/PMO. Delivered commercial and operational results across Sales, Support, CX, and Customer Success. Broad […]

Brittany Kalmbach Chicago, IL MBA, Booth McKinsey & Co Wells Fargo Umbrex member
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Brittany Kalmbach. Brittany is an experienced consultant with a strong background in strategy and product design, having worked at McKinsey & Company. She holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and has a proven track record in leading cross-functional teams and developing growth strategies for financial and professional services firms.

Jean-Francois Berleur Brussels, Belgium MEng, Catholic U of Louvain McKinsey&Co Benthurst&Co Etex Group Brave Minds
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Jean-Francois Berleur draws attention to statistics often overlooked in the transformation process. This statistic has been staring at us for 30 years. But we still ignore it. In the 1990s, John Kotter, professor à Harvard Business School, observed that nearly 70% of transformation efforts fail. Mostly due to human interactional factors. Decades later, we’re still […]

Yauheni Akulich Geneva, Switzerland MFin, Finance U BCG EY-Parthenon Shell Umbrex member
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Yauheni Akulich. Evgeniy is an experienced professional and leader in strategy, transformations, M&A, and organizational development. He has a strong background in strategy, transformation, and commercial excellence, with a proven track record in leading large-scale programs and managing stakeholder relationships. Evgeniy is passionate about sustainability and digital transformation, and has extensive experience operating at both […]

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Raman Bhatia explains why your pricing strategy may be working against business growth and identifies the five pitfalls to avoid. Pricing is the single most powerful lever in a business’s financial architecture, and the most consistently underused one. Simon-Kucher’s Global Pricing Study 2025, the world’s longest-running survey on pricing trends covering 19,000 companies across 12 […]

Sanuj Shah Dubai, UAE BS, Shri Ram College of Commerce Bain Matrix Partners India G42
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Sanuj Shah. Sanuj is a former Bain consultant and venture capital investor who has since held leadership roles in both 0-to-1 businesses and large organisations, launching new products and markets, defining go-to-market strategy, and running rigorous commercial and financial due diligence for both greenfield and M&A opportunities. He has deployed a $100M capital project, built […]

Terrance Berland Seattle, WA MBA, Kellogg McKinsey & Co Bridgewater Associates Russell Investments
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Terrance Berland shares thoughtful observations on the foundation that is needed to ensure AI adoption is successful. An Idea Whose Time Has Come—Again Over twenty-five years ago, I published an article, with another McKinsey colleague, about strategic thinking that was, at the time, considered to be rather unorthodox. The premise was disarmingly straightforward: that strategy […]

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Deepak Batra explains why leaders often choose quantity to compensate for a lack of quality and clarity. As a first-year consultant, I realised that the length of my daily update emails tended to be inversely proportional to the actual progress I made that day. It was the instinct to use quantity to compensate for weak […]

Charles Reed Anderson Amsterdam, Netherlands MBA, Rotterdam School of Mgmt McKinsey & Co IDC Vodafone
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Charles Reed Anderson draws attention to the issue of tech hype that over promises and under delivers. I’ve been watching this for twenty-five years. The dot-com crash that wiped $1.7 trillion and took half the industry with it. The telecoms execs who spent $100 billion on 3G spectrum licences before building a single tower — […]

Anda Berenyi Amsterdam, The Netherlands MSc, Corvinus University of Budapest McKinsey & Co KPMG Umbrex member
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Anda Berenyi. Senior strategy and transformation leader with 19 years of experience in large multinational and highly regulated organizations. Expertise in change management, building new capabilities, and delivering high-value innovation. Skilled at leading multidisciplinary teams and navigating complex stakeholder groups.