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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 Work/Life Balance

#1
SCORE 9.788
2022 Rank 2

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 9.534
2022 Rank 1

Eagle Hill Consulting

Billing itself as a "family-run, woman-owned company," Eagle Hill Consulting serves clients in five distinct sectors: financial services; public service; nonprofit; health and life sciences; and media, technology and entertainment. With offices...

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#3
SCORE 9.462
2022 Rank 10

Back Bay Life Science Advisors

Back Bay Life Science Advisors provides life science strategy and investment banking to pharma, biotech, medtech, and healthtech companies around the globe. Back Bay collaborates with investors, banks, academia, and government to advance...

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#4
SCORE 9.338
2022 Rank 5

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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#5
SCORE 9.316
2022 Rank 8

Kenway Consulting

Kenway exists to help companies that need help. More importantly, Kenway wants to provide help to people at those companies who want it. The firm operates in the nexus between clients’ technology and business organizations—bringing together...

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#6
SCORE 9.147
2022 Rank 3

Ignyte Group

Ignyte is a Washington, DC-based digital transformation and management consultancy specializing in helping clients modernize and automate their business through the adoption of advanced cloud-based and enterprise solution technologies. Founded...

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#7
SCORE 9.091
2022 Rank 22

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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#8
SCORE 9.050
2022 Not Ranked

Epsilon Economics and Epsilon Life Sciences

A well-known economics and litigation consulting firm, Epsilon Economics and Life Sciences has two separate but connected business units: one in economics and one in life sciences. Within its economics unit, the company provides specialist...

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#9
SCORE 9.038
2022 Rank 9

Censeo Consulting Group

Censeo Consulting Group specializes in strategy and operations, with a specific focus on mission-driven organizations. The firm tries to break away from the traditional consulting model by using its own business model, one that is based on three...

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#10
SCORE 9.019
2022 Rank 15

ScottMadden Management Consultants

ScottMadden is a management consulting firm that operates in two main areas: Energy and Corporate and Shared Services. While it is best known for its work in the energy industry, the firm's Corporate & Shared Services practice works across...

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