If the art of facilitation eludes you, Guillermo Herbozo can help you improve your skills with this article that identifies how a great facilitator operates. In the context of a huddle, there are several things great facilitators do. As a reminder, we define a huddle as a short, recurring training session that is focused on […]
Mark Hess identifies how AI has created significant opportunities for mid-market companies. The rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have created significant opportunities for mid-market companies to improve their business strategies for growth and scale. By leveraging AI, mid-market companies can enhance their decision-making processes, increase efficiency, enhance customer experience, and become more agile. In […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Johannes Becker with Becker Management Consulting. Johannes started the first decade of his career at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Munich working mainly in Financial Services, Technology and Energy industries. BCG then delegated him to a multi-year project with the University of Oxford and sponsoring his PhD in Industrial […]
Alistair Hodgett shares key insights on operational improvements (plus a party of emojis) in this article and summarized case study. My consulting training changed how I see how businesses operate, from the smallest coffee shop upwards (it’s not OK to try and engage the staff in a discussion of the operations project you can see, […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Tiger Huang. Tiger is a transformation and turnaround leader and has led a dozen large scale good-to-great transformations as a Senior Vice President / Associate Partner at McKinsey. Tiger started consulting independently starting 2022 with a focus on transformations and strategy for technology companies. In the transformation context, he has […]
Ben Lazaroff shares an article that explores the role of AI, the metaverse, and deep fakes in our present “reality”. Amid the 50,000 daily posts on ChatGPT and AI, it’s seemingly been lost that reality manipulation and sensory control are at the very heart of artificial intelligence, the “metaverse”, deepfakes and the rest. Beyond the […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Vinicius Castelo Branco. A summary of Vinicius’ experience follows. “Brazilian (from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais), father, engineer by training (ITA – Brazil), MBA (Columbia Business School is my alma mater) and world history enthusiast. Results-driven independent consultant with solid professional and academic background. 12+ years of experience in strategic consulting […]
In this article, Michele Holcomb shares the three key drivers in healthcare. I lead a team that sets the course for the future of Cardinal Health. We look around corners, study the trends and drivers that will shape our industry and the competitive environment, and develop strategies to address our customers’ needs. Our mission: To […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Nicholas Beecroft with Veinvest. Nicholas is an Organisational Psychiatrist with 25 years’ experience as a trusted advisor to CEOs, Investors and Boards specialising in: * Assessing CEO & Board leadership, performance and risk * CEO and Executive Coaching- Strategy, Leadership, Performance, Relationships * Decision Facilitation for high-stakes investment and business […]
In this article, Diane Flynn goes beyond the obvious with these insights on building team diversity. Lack of diversity has long been the elephant in the room for the tech industry and everybody is painfully aware the industry is too pale, too male, and very young. Yet few companies are actually tackling the issue head […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Ben Lazaroff with Elevate Advisory. A summary of Ben’s experience follows. “Started at McKinsey then moved into Policy at the Chicago Mayor’s Office. Building a marketplace for chess coaches at townsquarechess.com. Started my own LLC / S-corp (Elevate Advisory LLC) doing advisory work for Bain & Co’s Private Equity Group, […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Mudit Jain. Mudit is an independent consultant with prior experience as a Junior Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Co. He is skilled in strategy consulting and has delivered 20+ projects in his career. Post McKinsey, he has worked with a couple of startups in different stages to define and execute […]
