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At a Glance

Uppers

“The culture, salary, and learning opportunities through early responsibility at work.”

“Prestige, opportunities and salary.”

“The people and work-life balance arrangements.”

“The small size and personal culture, global footprint and opportunities, and possibility to create your own path.”

Downers

“Cross-regional communication.”

“The firm is risk averse.”

“The small scale results in a lack of structure in knowledge management and general processes.”

“Long working hours and weekly travel.”

About Kearney EMEA

Kearney is a leading global management consulting firm with more than 5,700 people working in more than 40 countries. Kearney has been trusted advisors to the world’s foremost organizations for almost a century and continues to live by the principles established by its founder Andrew Thomas (Tom) Kearney so long ago: “Our success as consultants will depend on the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good.”

Kearney is a partner-owned firm with a distinctive, collegial culture that transcends organizational and geographic boundaries—and it shows. Regardless of location or rank, its consultants are down to earth, approachable, and have a shared passion for doing innovative client work that provides clear benefits to organizations—both in the short and long term. Kearney proudly focuses on being the difference for their people, clients, and communities—ensuring a culture that builds the firm’s capabilities and, as a result, best serves its clients.

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 annual 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.

Culture

Kearney’s culture is nurtured and shaped by being committed to the same set of organizational values—curiosity, generosity, boldness, solidarity, and passion. The firm believes having clear, shared values helps to achieve greater consistency, clarity, and cohesion internally and externally, ensuring they value the diversity and originality of the firm.

Kearney EMEA

227 West Monroe Street
Chicago, IL 60606

Firm Stats

Employer Type: Private
Managing Partner and Chairman: Bob Willen
2025 Employees (All Locations): 5,700

Major Office Locations

National
Global

Affiliated Companies
Major Departments & Practices

  • Analytics
  • Digital
  • Leadership, Change & Organization
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Operations & Performance
  • Procurement
  • Product, Design, and Data Platforms
  • Sustainability
  • Transformation Services
  • Global Business Policy Council
  • Aerospace & Defense
  • Automotive
  • Chemicals
  • Consumer and Retail
  • Energy
  • Financial Services
  • Health
  • Infrastructure
  • Industrial Goods & Services
  • Media
  • Metals & Mining
  • Private Equity
  • Public Sector
  • Technology
  • Telecommunications
  • Transportation & Travel