Last week marked the end of my five year journey with McKinsey & Co. As I reflect back on this incredible ride, I found it somewhat therapeutic to surface the learnings I walked away with.
This is not a post about how good I was at wrangling data in excel and telling the story in powerpoint.
I’m here to share the important things that are applicable to every career, and in some cases, life.
For context of where I’m coming from…
I had a non-traditional path to the Firm, and a non-traditional path at the Firm. I was not your undergraduate ivy-league savant, and I was not your elite business school structured thinker.
In fact, quite the opposite. I was everything outside of the McKinsey cut.
The character in my story travels through many inflection points — from a top performing analytics expert, to a poor standing (“you might get fired”) generalist, and finishing off as a strong performing consultant in private equity and technology topics.
