2025 Vault Rankings
At a Glance
“Fast growing and no layoffs in a market where the competitors are stagnant and not hiring.”
“Smaller size than key competitors (MBB), making us more agile, focused and targeted.”
“Good culture. Passion-driven leaders. Respect for the individual.”
“Expanding my potential by working on high-quality projects and working with talented colleagues.”
“We can do more on cutting-edge topics (like AI). Can also do more for overtly promoting physical wellness of employees.”
“Not very good at branding in the marketplace.”
“Smaller size than key competitors, pushing us to the limit to win a fair share in the market.”
“Relatively long working hours.”
About Kearney APAC
Celebrating its centennial anniversary in 2026, Kearney has been a leading management consulting firm and trusted partner to three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500 and governments around the world for 100 years. With a presence across over 40 countries and more than 5,700 people, the firm says it “focuses on impact first, tackling its clients’ toughest challenges with original thinking and a commitment to making change happen together and delivering value, results, and impact.”
Kearney is a partner-owned firm with a collegial culture that extends across organizational and geographic boundaries. Across locations and levels, consultants are described as approachable and collaborative, with a shared focus on delivering thoughtful, high-impact client work.
Kearney's expertise
Kearney blends its globally renowned capabilities in strategy, digital, analytics, strategic operations, and change management to help clients gain extraordinary value. It has tightened its focus on its established strengths—Strategic operations and strategic transformation, digitization of legacy processes, rapid earning expansion, and M&A. It has a renewed focus to build leading-edge capabilities in areas that drive impact for its clients.
A key plank of Kearney's reputation is its Global Business Policy Council (GBPC). Established in 1991 as a forum for corporate, government, and academic leaders to convene and better understand key global trends. Through its exclusive CEO Retreat and global forums program, public-facing thought leadership, and advisory services, the Council helps to decipher the sweeping geopolitical, economic, social and technological changes that are shaping the global business environment. Since 1998, the GBPC has published its flagship piece of thought leadership, the Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index (FDICI), which is an annual survey of global business executives that ranks the markets likely to attract the most investment in the next three years.
In addition to offering advice and implementing solutions for clients, Kearney studies and tracks trends in a wide range of industries. Every two years, the firm releases its Global Retail Development Index (GRDI), which details retail trends and investment opportunities in established and developing markets worldwide. The firm also releases its annual Global Cities report examining which global cities are improving in their competitiveness and what factors are driving that success and annual Sustainability report highlighting Kearney’s sustainability journey and ongoing social impact efforts as part of its path to net zero.
COVID-19 Update
During this unprecedented time, Kearney’s main priority has been the health and safety of our people and clients. As a firm, we’re embracing the “new normal” of virtual working environments with optimism, and remaining connected with all of our clients and communities to ensure they continue to feel supported. As this situation continues to develop, we are thankful for our strong culture and core values—generosity, solidarity, curiosity, boldness, and passion—which remain our continued inspiration and guidance during this time. We all recognize it is important to be supportive, kind, and empathetic to each other, now more than ever.
Recruiting has naturally been impacted by this pandemic, but it has affected each region differently. Our recruiting teams globally are assessing the situation and making decisions based on the local business climate in their respective regions. We encourage you to connect with your local recruiting team for more information or visit our website and click ‘Contact us’.
227 West Monroe Street
Chicago, IL 60606
Employer Type: Private
Managing Partner and Chairman: Bob Willen
2025 Employees (All Locations): 5,700
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