Who are your consultants and what qualifications do they have?

The best people we can find — that’s the honest answer. We run cohort-based screening, which means we evaluate candidates in batches rather than rolling hires, and we only take the strongest from each group. The process includes blind reviews where multiple experienced members of our team assess a candidate’s actual work product with no résumé attached. No name, no alma mater, no professional background visible. We want to know: can this person diagnose a profile, identify the real strategic opportunity, and coach a student toward it? If the work doesn’t speak for itself on its own, the résumé won’t change our mind.

We hear from prospective consultants regularly — people evaluating firms the same way our clients do — that our process is unlike anything else in this industry. The consultants who make it through tend to share a specific quality: they can’t help but coach. It’s how they’re wired. They’re not here for the paycheck — they’re here because mentorship is the thing they’re genuinely best at and most energized by. That’s the quality we select for, and it’s the quality you’ll feel from your first conversation.