Consulting Led Learning Platform Hires Two Chief of Staff Roles with MBB Talent

Client Profile

A consulting led learning and capability building company founded and operated by former McKinsey consultants. The business works closely with senior leaders and enterprises, blending structured problem solving with practical execution across learning, growth, and operations.

Given the founders’ background, the bar for talent was exceptionally high. They were specifically looking for profiles with top tier consulting training and strong analytical rigor.

Challenge

The client wanted to hire for two senior roles that sat at the intersection of strategy and execution:

• A Chief of Staff role focused on learning design and program strategy
• A Chief of Staff role focused on growth and commercial execution
These were not support roles. Both positions required people who could:
• Operate with founder level ownership
• Break down ambiguous problems into structured workstreams
• Work across data, stakeholders, and execution
• Match the pace and thinking style of ex McKinsey leadership

Finding candidates with this level of rigor and versatility through traditional hiring channels was proving difficult.

Solution

Hey Recruiting placed two MBB trained professionals into these roles.

One hire brought experience in growth, experimentation, and data driven decision making, with prior exposure to Bain style analytical frameworks, A B testing, and large scale business impact work. Their background included working on complex consumer and retail problems and driving measurable outcomes through structured execution.

The second hire brought deep experience from McKinsey in people and organizational performance, operating model design, and leadership advisory work. They had led multiple global engagements, worked directly with senior stakeholders, and brought strong capability building and internal transformation experience.

Together, these hires closely matched the founders’ consulting DNA while extending capacity across learning design and growth execution.

Results

• Filled two senior Chief of Staff roles with MBB trained talent
• Matched the founders’ consulting rigor and execution style
• Strengthened learning design, internal strategy, and growth initiatives
• Added high ownership operators capable of working across ambiguity

Client name available on request.