Kearney is a global management consulting partnership with roots stretching back to 1926, when our predecessor firm was founded in Chicago. For nearly a century, we have served as trusted advisors to the world's foremost organizations — from Fortune Global 500 companies and governments to nonprofit institutions — helping them achieve immediate impact and growing advantage on their most mission-critical issues. Operating across more than 40 countries with over 5,300 professionals, we bring together deep sector expertise and bold strategic thinking with a relentless commitment to execution. Our advice-plus-action philosophy — embedded in our DNA since founder Tom Kearney insisted consultants roll up their sleeves alongside clients — means we don't stop at strategy. We stay by our clients' side until the change is real. As an independent partnership, each of our 300+ partners holds an equal vote on governance matters. That structure reinforces our culture of accountability, entrepreneurialism, and shared purpose — and ensures the interests of our clients always come first.

As one of the original firms, we've never lost sight of the fact that consulting is a people business. A global partnership in more than 40 countries, our people make us who we are. We're individuals with different passions and strengths who take as much joy in the work we do as from those we work with. Our strategic operations heritage means we've always known that a plan is only as good as the outcome it inspires. In practice, our teams bring the perspective, understanding, and hands-on know-how to build the future as our clients see it. We are doers by nature — never sitters on the sidelines — and we count on everyone to join in. Working together, we see big ideas through to working realities, helping our clients move from keeping up to breaking through.

We work with clients across the full spectrum of strategic and operational challenges — from digital transformation and mergers and acquisitions to procurement excellence, organizational redesign, and sustainability. Our practice areas span Strategy and Growth, Operations and Performance, Digital and Analytics, Procurement, Organization, Mergers and Acquisitions, Sustainability, Transformation, and Product Excellence and Renewal. Whatever the issue, we combine analytical precision with sector-specific experience and a bias toward tangible, lasting outcomes — not just recommendations.

We are driven to be the difference — between a big idea and making it happen, between good intentions and meaningful change, between strategy and results. We aim to make a positive social impact through our client engagements, pro bono projects, and sustainable choices, working to regenerate businesses in ways that create a future that works for everyone.

Our five core values fuel everything we do and define what it means to be a Kearney Original. Each year, our Kearney Value Awards celebrate colleagues across the firm who embody these values in their work and in the way they show up for each other. They are the foundation of a culture built on the conviction that doing the right thing is not just good ethics — it is good business.

What sets Kearney apart is our ability to link high-level strategy with hands-on execution. Our strategic operations heritage — developed over nearly a century — means we have always been as comfortable on the shop floor as in the boardroom. We serve three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500 and regularly rank near the top of global management consulting firm rankings, including Vault's Consulting 50 and Consulting magazine's Best Firms to Work For. As an independent partnership, we are free from the conflicts that can arise within larger conglomerates. Our 300+ partners each hold an equal vote, ensuring that our governance, our advice, and our culture remain firmly client-centric. And through flagship thought leadership platforms — including the FDI Confidence Index®, the Global Retail Development Index™, and the Global Cities Index — we bring global intelligence to every engagement.

Kearney became the first management consultancy with SBTi-approved net-zero targets, committing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris Agreement while investing in carbon removal technologies and projects. We are actively working across our offices and supply chain partners in more than 40 countries to reduce our environmental footprint — from greener ways of working and reduced business travel to sustainable mobility practices and improved waste reduction. For our clients, we deliver sustainability consulting across five platforms: ESG transformation, net zero, promoting sustainability and diversity in supply chains, circularity, and equitable and inclusive societies. In 2023, we worked on more than 300 sustainability projects globally. Our Supplier Sustainability and Diversity Program engages all new active suppliers through an annual survey on their sustainability and equity practices, and we have committed to double our share of spend with diverse suppliers.

Kearney aims to make a positive social impact through our client engagements, pro bono projects, and the sustainable choices we make as a firm. We are a longstanding partner of the World Economic Forum — a relationship that began in 1971 — advising on global platforms, regional agendas, and serving as a member of the Alliance of CEO Climate Members and Racial Justice in Business. Our Impact Networks, Kearney Foresight, Kearney Innovate, and Kearney Activate platforms extend our reach beyond traditional consulting to drive systemic change in society.

At Kearney, diversity, equity, and inclusion is backed by our equal employment opportunity policy, which prevents discrimination and ensures equitable outcomes across our entire employee life cycle — from recruiting and learning to performance management. We are a founding member of the WEF's Racial Justice in Business Partnership and the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Community, driving action on racial equality, gender parity, LGBTQIA+ equality, and disability inclusion. Across our offices, we hold Allyship in Action learning programs for all colleagues, including senior leaders — focused on putting allyship into practice through intentional, courageous action. We are committed to progressing gender equity in leadership roles by 2030, and we are enhancing inclusiveness and accessibility within offices through wellness rooms, all-gender restrooms, and accessible facilities for employees and visitors with disabilities.