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Best Consulting Firms to Work For

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

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.

Survey respondents were asked to rate their own firm across a variety of factors that affect their daily working lives. Those factors are:

  • Benefits
  • Compensation
  • Diversity
  • Firm Culture
  • Firm Leadership
  • Formal Training
  • Health & Wellness
  • Hours in the Office
  • Informal Training
  • Innovation
  • Interaction with Clients
  • Internal Mobility
  • International Opportunities
  • Level of Challenge
  • Overall Business Outlook
  • Promotion Policies
  • Relationships with Supervisors
  • Satisfaction
  • Selectivity
  • Work/Life Balance

Firms were then ranked in each category based on the average rating assigned by their own consultants.

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2024 Most Selective Consulting Firms

#1
SCORE 9.931
2023 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 9.795
2023 Rank 2

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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#3
SCORE 9.615
2023 Rank 3

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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#4
SCORE 9.429
2023 Rank 5

The Bridgespan Group

Co-founder and managing partner of The Bridgespan Group, Jeffrey L. Bradach left his post at Harvard Business School’s Organizational Behavior and Social Enterprise Initiative department, where he was a professor, to start the firm. Bradach is...

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#5
SCORE 9.343
2023 Rank 6

DeciBio Consulting, LLC

As a boutique strategy consulting firm focusing on the life science industry, DeciBio's mission is to provide strategic insights that accelerate the development, adoption, and accessibility of precision medicine. Headquartered in Los Angeles,...

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#6
SCORE 9.304
2023 Not Ranked

SciVida

SciVida is a boutique management consulting firm that focuses exclusively on life sciences. The company jetted onto the scene in 2021 and has achieved rapid success within the life sciences consulting space. Headquartered in Research Triangle...

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#7
SCORE 9.273
2023 Rank 12

OC&C Strategy Consultants

Focusing on strategic analysis, OC&C Strategy Consultants breaks the concept of strategy consulting down into five organizational areas: group strategy, business unit/divisional strategy, product/market/channel strategy, transaction support,...

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#8
SCORE 9.258
2023 Not Ranked

Kepler Cannon

The firm was established in 2013 after its founders decided to leave their respective employers and create a new consulting shop that aligned with their shared values. The company’s name is a combination of the names of two famous astronomers:...

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#9
SCORE 9.250
2023 Not Ranked

Aminad Consulting

Aminad is a boutique management consulting firm dedicated to generating realistic and implementable change. The firm is focused on strategy, predominately within supply chain and operations. Aminad works with federal agencies, with a specific...

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#10
SCORE 9.229
2023 Rank 8

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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