Umbrex, a global community of independent management consultants with prior experience at top-tier firms, is pleased to welcome our newest member, Blake Carroll with AllTrades Studio. Blake is a commercial, operations, and sustainability strategist and implementation practitioner with over 10 years of global experience spanning finance, project management, and business development. He is a self-described […]
Kasia Pietr reflects on Poland’s rise from a country lagging behind the Iron Curtain to one of the world’s top 20 economies. “𝐎𝐧 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞’𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐩-𝐡𝐨𝐩.” „Na Europy peryferiach świat mówi hop hop…” – Kasta Squad, 2002 A line from a very different Poland. A Poland that still saw itself as the […]
Umbrex, a global community of independent management consultants with prior experience at top-tier firms, is pleased to welcome our newest member, Nada Tarek Darwish with Darwish Strategy Advisory. Nada is a strategy consultant with a proven track record of delivering measurable growth for clients, leveraging deep experience from BCG, P&G, and freelancing engagements. She helps […]
Umbrex, a global community of independent management consultants with prior experience at top-tier firms, is pleased to welcome our newest member, Ali Monadjem with Accompany Advisory. Dr. Ali brings 20+ years of experience in strategy consulting, program management, and CEO advisory, having worked with McKinsey & Company, Spencer Stuart, and leading South African organizations. Originally […]
In this post Ali Monadjem shares tips on developing and executing a strategy and common mistakes to avoid. Is strategy pointless or powerful? Which is it? Without strategy, execution is aimless. Without execution, strategy is useless. These two sides of the same coin are vital. Put simply, strategy is a course of action designed to […]
Lionel Johnnes shares his thoughts on the 2025 McKinsey Global Energy Perspective. McKinsey & Company has released the 10th annual Global Energy Perspective. After contributing to the last 7 editions, here are my reflections on this one: A persistent theme: The economics continue to favor Renewables, Battery Storage, and Electrification. This trend has been evident […]
Blake Carroll shares a report from the Earth Institute at Columbia Climate School on the Clean Energy and Sustainability Accelerator Act. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY H.R. 806, cited as the “Clean Energy and Sustainability Accelerator Act,” will establish a non-profit corporation to be known as the Clean Energy and Sustainability Accelerator. This organization is charged with reducing […]
Doug Knight shares thoughts on the use of AI to create “art”. I love AI, but not for art. More music is released today in a single day than was released in the entire year of 1989. Since 2022, more than 15 billion AI-generated images have been produced — ~34 million per day. We are […]
Umbrex, a global community of independent management consultants with prior experience at top-tier firms, is pleased to welcome our newest member, Kenneth Liao. Kenny spent 2 years with the Boston Consulting Group as an Associate and 4 years on the Corporate Strategy team at Yahoo!. He has spent the past 15 years as an entrepreneurial […]
Umbrex, a global community of independent management consultants with prior experience at top-tier firms, is pleased to welcome our newest member, Zahra Husain. Zahra is an Operating Partner at Creative Glu, an AI-native consulting and implementation firm helping financial institutions, private equity firms, and their portfolio companies accelerate their AI transformation journey – blending strategy, enablement, […]
Peter Klugsberger shares advice on how to manage unwieldy workloads and low productivity without employing more people. Massive workloads? Terrible NPS? Low productivity? ‘Adding more people’ will not fix that… In my client work with CHROs, I have seen this play out repeatedly. “We need more people” is the most common quote in employee surveys […]
Jordan Levine shares an article that explains how organizations are using blockchain to build customer trust in AI. In a remarkably short period of time, organizations across industries have deployed artificial intelligence (AI) to produce decisions that affect people’s daily lives. Since AI can be characterized as “a mirror that reflects our biases and moral […]