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Best Consulting Firms to Work For

Which firms fare best on these individual rankings of key employment factors?
Survey Methodology

<p>When it comes to a satisfying work experience, there are many different factors that come into play--everything from a job's ability to challenge an employee and the training and mentoring to the number of hours spent working or travelling each week, and the compensation that the employee takes home for doing their job. All told, we have identified 20 separate "Best to Work For" factors--each of which is represented by its own ranking. These rankings help to build a picture of the firms consultants find the most amenable to a fulfilling, satisfying work experience.</p>
<p>Survey respondents were asked to rate their own firm across a variety of factors that affect their daily working lives. Those factors are:</p>
<p>Benefits<br />Compensation<br />Diversity<br />Firm Culture<br />Firm Leadership<br />Formal Training<br />Health &amp; Wellness<br />Hours in the Office<br />Informal Training<br />Innovation<br />Interaction with Clients<br />Internal Mobility<br />International Opportunities<br />Level of Challenge<br />Overall Business Outlook<br />Promotion Policies<br />Relationships with Supervisors<br />Satisfaction<br />Selectivity<br />Work/Life Balance</p>
<p>Firms were then ranked in each category based on the average rating assigned by their own consultants.</p>

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2023 Best Consulting Firms for Interaction with Clients

#1
SCORE 9.906
2022 Rank 1

ghSMART

ghSMART Founder Dr. Geoff Smart’s Psychology PhD dissertation found that those private equity firms best at choosing teams made the most money. Equipped with an expertise in human behavior, he and his early colleagues went on to advise private...

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#2
SCORE 9.763
2022 Rank 23

Applied Value

Applied Value was founded in 1997 by Bruce Grant and Jan Stenbeck as an action-oriented management consultancy focused on enhancing clients’ financial value and delivering lean, expedient growth solutions. Established on a combination of...

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#3
SCORE 9.762
2022 Rank 4

Bain & Company

Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change-makers define the future. Across 64 cities in 39 countries, the firm works alongside clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary...

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#4
SCORE 9.639
2022 Rank 3

McKinsey & Company

McKinsey & Company is a privately owned management consulting firm committed to accelerating sustainable and inclusive growth. Roundly considered the most prestigious company of its kind, it has achieved a near-universal level of renown by...

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#5
SCORE 9.636
2022 Rank 6

The Keystone Group

With offices in Atlanta, Chicago and L.A., The Keystone Group provides services related to growth strategy, operational improvement, turnaround, and M&A, across a wide range of industries. Small wonder, then, that its tagline is “making a...

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#6
SCORE 9.520
2022 Rank 12

The Poirier Group

The Poirier Group (TPG) creates sustainable process and performance improvements for medium-to-large businesses. Client engagements range from organizations in supply chain, manufacturing, retail grocery, private equity, IT, business services,...

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#7
SCORE 9.438
2022 Rank 2

Kx Advisors

Kx Advisors (previously operating as Kaiser Associates’ Healthcare Practice) has provided strategy consulting services to help healthcare executives achieve critical business growth goals for more than forty years. With a highly collaborative...

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#8
SCORE 9.434
2022 Rank 7

Boston Consulting Group

With 22,000 employees in more than 90 offices in more than 50 countries and regions, Boston Consulting Group ranks as one of America's largest private companies, according to Forbes. The firm partners with leaders in business and society to help...

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#9
SCORE 9.429
2022 Rank 18

DayBlink Consulting

Founded in 2013, DayBlink Consulting is a boutique management consulting firm that has achieved incredible growth and established a strong reputation for consistently delivering strategic advisory, execution, and transformative solutions in...

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#10
SCORE 9.409
2022 Not Ranked

Insigniam

Unlike consulting firms that advise, train, or do it for you, Insigniam helps ensure that the breakthrough, innovation, and transformation initiatives are led by your leaders and employees. They catalyze, provoke and guide clients and...

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