The L.E.K. Summer Consultant Program is an 8-week internship. Summer consultants at L.E.K. are typically the most experienced case team members, dedicating 100 percent of their time to a single engagement; as a result, the role of the summer consultant has a high level of responsibility for guiding and managing the case team, including:

• Identifying the critical issues: Summer consultants work with partners and managers to outline the key business issues needing resolution. L.E.K. summer consultants develop the business acumen necessary to quickly identify the key issues early in their career.
• Structuring analyses: Once the key issues have been identified, the summer consultant typically forms a plan to find the answers to these critical questions. The summer consultant will lay out the strategy to the team for finding information on market growth drivers, competitive profiling, or broad market trends.
• Managing the team’s day-to-day activities: L.E.K. hires two undergraduates for every one summer consultant, implying that management of less experienced colleagues is as much a part of the summer consultant role as solving business issues. A significant responsibility for L.E.K. summer consultants is guiding and mentoring more junior associates on a day-to-day basis
• Solving the case: At the end of the day, our clients expect high-quality, actionable answers to their business problems. Summer consultants serve on point to ensure their team is on-track to accurately solve the problem and deliver an answer. Summer consultants supervise analyses, develop the structure for the final output, provide quality control, and—in most cases—participant in the delivery of the conclusion senior management at the client.