Umbrex, a global community of independent management consultants with prior experience at top-tier firms, is pleased to welcome our newest member, Steve Sprieser with Cerulean Venture Partners. Steve has over a decade of experience working with startup, growth-stage, and corporate spin-out ventures. He was most recently the founding CEO of Petrichor, a supply chain management […]
Umbrex, a global community of independent management consultants with prior experience at top-tier firms, is pleased to welcome our newest member, Sara Messina. Sara has a PhD in computational materials engineering and spent 3 years in integrative consulting at McKinsey, focused on technology and operational excellence in mining and materials, energy, advanced industries, and tech/SaaS. […]
Ted Sapountzis shares short, sharp advice on pitching that beat your competitor. Your biggest competitor isn’t another vendor. It’s doing nothing. No decision. No change. Just status quo. It wins far more than you think. Most teams underestimate how often deals stall, not because the buyer preferred someone else, but because they couldn’t justify doing […]
Umbrex, a global community of independent management consultants with prior experience at top-tier firms, is pleased to welcome our newest member, Siddharth Ramalingam. Siddharth has 15+ years experience driving enterprise value through growth strategy, operational transformation, and data-led performance management across technology and consulting. His experience spans Technology (Cisco), Consulting (BCG, Deloitte, CEPA), and International […]
Jessica Olofsson shares an update on her process as a first-time fantasy author. Well hello everyone! 😁 I’m well overdue for an update so here’s how things are going: 🔹 I’ve written 700+ pages of my debut fantasy novel. 🔹 I’ve created a beautiful, logically sound magic system — complete with clearly cataloged consultant-style assumptions. […]
Umbrex, a global community of independent management consultants with prior experience at top-tier firms, is pleased to welcome our newest member, Jon McClain with Die Hard Consulting. Jon McClain spent 15 years as a McKinsey, where he was most recently a Partner and Global lead for the Consumer Growth Strategy and Innovation practice, supporting consumer-facing […]
Umbrex, a global community of independent management consultants with prior experience at top-tier firms, is pleased to welcome our newest member, Daniel Perez Sanchez with Temet Nosce Consulting Dr. Daniel Perez Sanchez is a seasoned executive with over 20 years of experience in multinational companies, specializing in Business Development, HR, and Management Consulting. Based in Toronto, […]
Umbrex, a global community of independent management consultants with prior experience at top-tier firms, is pleased to welcome our newest member, John Trustman. A summary of John’s experience follows. “I’m an industry generalist largely because I’ve had very broad exposure over time, but to the extent that I have an industry specialty, I’ve done a […]
Karolin Helbig highlights the importance of psychological safety. Psychological safety isn’t soft. It’s a performance driver. During my years at McKinsey, I worked on teams across the full spectrum of psychological safety, though I didn’t know the term back then. I could often sense it by how much the team laughed together, how freely ideas […]
Wolfgang Hammes shares thoughts on AI in consulting. Is this the beginning of the end of the classic consulting business? Some people think so. Producing Powerpoint charts with AI is not a big deal. But AI goes much further. The article mentions creating draft proposals through AI tools. But this is only a first step. […]
Michael Chik shares a short post and link to an article on AI and how it will affect objective leadership assessment. Using AI 🤖 to predict human leadership potential… New and extremely interesting research shows that AI can accurately predict who will lead human teams effectively – a incredible 81% correlation between AI-based and human […]
Umbrex, a global community of independent management consultants with prior experience at top-tier firms, is pleased to welcome our newest member, Johan Stockmann with TransNovation. Johan has spent five years with BCG working on data and digital challenges, helping major international clients with their technology platforms and organization. Prior to that he has built a […]