Wondering what are the most common exits are for MDs or partners from these firms. Appreciate your input!#consulting
In some cases, depending on market size and kind of work done, they can also go to senior general management roles at top tech companies. The South East Asia head of Avanade became the GM of Microsoft Singapore so there is hope in case you're looking to move into tech
Seeing a good amount of ex-consulting SM/MD doing BD/enterprise sales at AWS, GCP, Azure
Oh trap!! Don’t fall for that! Go big CxO roles a plenty start in a smaller org and grow
Typically senior consulting exits to Industry will be at best, one step away from a C-Suite role. Typically VP level but could be SVP, if they have decent industry experience already. Boards typically want to see if the Consultant can walk the talk.
Accenture md won’t make director in some cases in F/G especially in tech ladders where l7 ranges from 700+ which would be a substantial jump
If you can sell yourself and the profits that you’ve generated, you’ll crack C-Suite; each case is different. Best of luck!
you do realize tech companies do not have difficulty in generating profit neither are obsessed with it; most highly paid roles do not have a profit target. You have to be in c-suite in Accenture to crack c-suite at faang or any leading tech startup (e.g instacart). A random md or even a random l2 md won’t make it to Csuite.
Leave the assumptions out of your responses. ...And no, you don’t.
From my experience at BCG: - Random director role in Google and then boomeranged back to McK once he realized he made a mistake - BCG office lead retired to lead some billionaire’s charitable trust (e.g. retirement) - heart attack(s) way too young and too-often-divorced
Accenture placements are going to be different from BCG or McKinsey partner
MBB partner to director in a non-tech role (usually non pm) is more common and is usually the path. Accenture will be l7 for junior md (first 3 years) and director after
I worked at both firms. The most common exit opportunity is to work for a client as some mid-senior IT leadership role. Accenture will actively encourage this- I was offered it twice during my tenure. I have not seen exits to the C-suite from MD/Partner except in the case of people going to start ups/extremely small companies (uncommon but have seen it). I saw MD/Partners going to other consulting companies when they followed a client who was redirecting business. I saw “wash outs” go to sales roles at Amazon, Google, Microsoft (extremely common but a clear sign of a wash out).
I launched a biz. Also retirement/investments/independent consulting.
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Common exits: 1) MD role at a peer consulting firm (ie big4). 2) MD role at smaller consulting firms to be a bigger fish. 3) Industry role in their industry or specialty (i.e., Head of Strategy, Head of Transformation). Not often big4 or Accenture MDs end up in C suite roles vs. MBB where it's much more common.