The Consulting Report is pleased to present its selections for The Top 50 Consulting Firms of 2024. From advising on digital transformation and operational efficiency, to navigating regulatory complexities and fostering sustainable practices, these leading firms were selected for their consistent performance in providing clients with exceptional consulting services.
Over the past two decades, the consulting industry has evolved into a $300 billion market, leading to more competition and the need for firms to offer unique, unprecedented expertise and highly focused client care in order to best serve clients. By the same magnitude, the world’s largest organizations and governments are increasingly facing global competition, regulatory changes, and technological disruptions, requiring the most advanced and innovative insights to achieve continued growth. This year’s awardees have established reputations as the trusted partners to some of the globe’s largest corporations, governments, and organizations.
As the consulting industry continues to evolve and the diverse needs of businesses worldwide become increasingly complex, the awardees on this year’s list stand out for their distinct leadership and unmatched success in shaping industries, driving growth, and fostering resilience across global markets. Please join us in recognizing The Top 50 Consulting Firms of 2024.
1. Kearney
Kearney is a leading global management consulting firm with 5,700 people working in over 40 countries. The firm works with more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500, as well as with the most influential governmental and nonprofit organizations.
Kearney is a partner-owned firm with a distinctive, collegial culture that transcends organizational and geographic boundaries. Regardless of location or rank, Kearney consultants are down-to-earth, approachable, and have a shared passion for doing innovative client work that provides clear benefits to the organizations the firm works with in both the short and long term. Nearing the 100th anniversary of its founding, Kearney has accelerated growth and expansion with several recent strategic acquisitions.
2. Infosys
Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, enabling clients in more than 56 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With over four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, Infosys steers clients in more than 56 countries as they navigate their digital transformation powered by cloud and AI.
Infosys enables clients with an AI-first core, empowers businesses with agile digital at scale, and drives continuous improvement with always-on learning through the transfer of digital skills, expertise, and ideas from its innovation ecosystem. Infosys is committed to being a well-governed, environmentally sustainable organization, where diverse talent thrives in an inclusive workplace.
In 2022, consulting industry veteran and Europe leader Andrew Duncan became CEO of Infosys Consulting. Since then, IC has become one of the fastest-growing units within the Infosys group.
3. CohnReznick
As a top advisory, assurance, and tax firm, CohnReznick provides a fully integrated range of advisory services, across three distinct business groups. Value360, one of the firm’s leading advisory services, provides a suite of solutions including transaction advisory services comprising due diligence, SPAs and purchase price disputes, restructuring, bankruptcy, forensic accounting, and loan workout services. The practice provides project finance solutions for developers, investors, sponsors, and P3, valuation services and valuation-related litigation, performance improvement services spanning strategy, operations, revenue growth, efficiency, cost reduction, post-acquisition integration, and a range of M&A insurance advisory services.
Global Consulting Solutions, the firm’s fastest growing advisory practice, offers specialized services focused on risk management, government contracting, digital innovation, and business performance improvement. Key GCS solutions include cybersecurity and enterprise risk management, CFO Advisory, managed services and outsourcing, digital transformation, AI and data automation, and enterprise resource planning. A dedicated team of GCS advisors provide government contractors with a suite of services to help them win and manage contracts. Government advisory provides audit and tax, program management, integrity monitoring, and other solutions for federal, state, and local government agencies.
4. Mercer
Mercer, a premier American consulting provider, believes in building brighter futures by redefining the world of work. Mercer’s business solutions reshape retirement and investment outcomes, and unlock real health and well-being for their client’s employees. People are at the forefront of Mercer’s core offerings. The firm prides itself on using strategic data analytics to improve the lives of organizations’ colleagues. Mercer’s service offerings range from talent and reward management to M&A advisory and retirement consulting.
Mercer’s more than 20,000 colleagues are based in 43 countries and the firm operates in over 130 countries. Mercer is a subsidiary of Marsh McLennan, the world’s leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people. With more than 85,000 colleagues and an annual revenue of $23 billion, Marsh McLennan helps clients navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex environment with its market-leading businesses which include Marsh and Guy Carpenter, its risk and insurance businesses, and Oliver Wyman, a traditional management consulting firm.
5. Publicis Sapient
Publicis Sapient is a digital business transformation company with 20,000 employees and over 50 offices, worldwide. The company partners with global organizations to help them create and sustain their competitive advantage in a world that is becoming increasingly digital. Publicis Sapient enables clients to unlock value and drive outcomes through integrated SPEED capabilities: strategy, product, experience, engineering and data and AI. Combined with their culture of curiosity and deep industry knowledge, these capabilities fuel the delivery of meaningful impact to clients’ businesses through reimagining the products and experiences their customers truly value.
Publicis Sapient serves clients in the retail, consumer products, energy and commodities, financial services, health, public sector, telecommunications, media and technology, transportation and mobility, and travel and hospitality industries.
6. Deloitte
Deloitte provides industry-leading audit, consulting, tax, and advisory services to many of the world’s leading brands, including nearly 90% of the Fortune 500® and more than 8,500 US-based private companies. It serves clients across various industries, including financial services, technology, healthcare, consumer, energy, and government, and provides consulting services in strategy, operations, technology, human capital, and digital transformation, among others. Deloitte is known for its industry expertise, innovative solutions, and commitment to delivering value to its clients.
Deloitte is also involved in thought leadership and research, producing reports and studies on topics ranging from emerging trends in business to economic outlooks and regulatory developments. Additionally, the firm is actively engaged in corporate social responsibility initiatives, focusing on areas such as education, sustainability, and community development. Deloitte brings over 175 years of service to its clients, with a network of member firms spanning more than 150 countries and territories.
7. ZS
ZS is a management consulting and technology firm that works side by side with companies to help drive customer value and solve their business challenges. The firm connects to its clients’ business model and product mix with calculated decisions about future opportunities to drive growth.
With a global team of more than 13,000 committed professionals partnering with over 1,200 clients in 17 countries in over 35 offices, ZS helps businesses make more intelligent decisions, deliver innovative solutions and improve outcomes for all. It leverages deep industry expertise, leading-edge analytics, technology and strategy to create actionable strategy and advisory, AI and analytics, digital and technology, life sciences R&D and medical, portfolio and pipeline, value and access, marketing, sales, supply chain and manufacturing solutions.
8. Jacobs
Jacobs Solutions is a global professional services firm offering a comprehensive range of consulting, engineering, project management, and operations and maintenance services. With approximately $16 billion in annual revenue and a workforce of over 60,000, Jacobs serves various sectors, including infrastructure, water, energy, environment, advanced facilities, and government services. The firm focuses on addressing critical issues such as urban development, environmental resilience, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery, and advanced manufacturing.
Jacobs emphasizes sustainability, resiliency, and digital transformation in its projects, and aims to create significant social, environmental, and economic impacts. The company provides a full spectrum of professional services, including consulting, technical, scientific, and project delivery for both government and private sector clients.
9. General Dynamics Information Technology
GDIT is a global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology, and mission services to every major agency across the US government, defense, and intelligence community.
The company’s 30,000 experts use technology to create value and deliver solutions for its clients. Operating across 30 countries worldwide, it offers leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, cloud, cyber, and application development. GDIT is part of General Dynamics, a global aerospace and defense company. For over 50 years, the company has closely aligned with its clients, gaining a deep understanding of their missions and complex environments to help them navigate through challenges.
10. McKinsey and Company
McKinsey is a global management consulting firm committed to helping organizations accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth. The firm works with clients across the private, public, and social sectors to help solve complex problems and create positive change for its stakeholders. McKinsey uses strategic approaches and advanced technologies to assist organizations in sustainable innovation, improving performance and developing resilient workforces for the present and future.
McKinsey invests more than $800 million of the firm’s resources annually in capability building, knowledge development, and learning. It established its in-house think tank, McKinsey Global Institute, in 1990 to develop research on major challenges and trends. McKinsey is located in 130 cities in over 65 countries. With more than 45,000 colleagues, its employees speak more than 140 languages and represent over 140 citizenships.
11. Simon-Kucher
Simon-Kucher is a global consultancy with more than 2,000 employees in 30 countries. The firm is focused on unlocking better growth and driving measurable revenue and profit for clients. Simon-Kucher employs deep insights into what customers want and value to optimize every lever of its clients' commercial strategy, including product development, pricing, innovation, marketing, and sales.
With almost four decades of experience in monetization topics of all kinds, Simon-Kucher is regarded as the world’s leading pricing and growth specialist. The global consultancy boasts a distinctive leadership model, overseen by co-CEOs, Mark Billige and Dr. Andreas von der Gathen. Privately owned by its more than 190 Partners, the firm is known for its entrepreneurial spirit, collaborative workplace culture, and diverse array of opportunities available to its employees.
Simon-Kucher was founded in Germany in 1985 by Prof. Dr. Hermann Simon, Dr. Eckhard Kucher, and Dr. Karl-Heinz Sebastian. Today, Simon-Kucher operates globally with 45 offices across Europe, APAC, the Americas, and the Middle East and serves clients from Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 firms to unicorns across 120 industries. Building on its heritage in pricing, the firm has diversified successfully into strategy, marketing, sales, digital transformation, and innovation.
12. Bain and Company
Bain and Company, a global management consulting firm, operating in 65 cities across 40 countries, collaborates closely with clients to achieve significant results, enhance competitive performance, and drive industry innovation. Bain and Company provides advisory services to businesses, nonprofits, and governments, helping them with strategy, operations, technology, organization, private equity, and mergers and acquisitions. Bain is known for its results-oriented approach, focusing on achieving measurable and sustainable improvements in clients' performance.
The firm operates in various industries, including consumer products, financial services, healthcare, industrial goods, retail, technology, media, and telecommunications, among others. The firm’s 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services, brings its talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today’s urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment.
13. RSM US
RSM US is a leading provider of professional services to the middle market. The firm’s clients are the engine of global commerce and economic growth. And RSM is focused on developing leading professionals and services to meet their evolving needs in today’s ever-changing business landscape.
RSM seeks to instill confidence in a world of change, empowering clients and people to realize their full potential. RSM’s key promise to clients can be recognized as The Power of Being Understood - a term coined to describe RSM’s unique ability to fully understand the client and its needs, before delivering tailored and cutting edge solutions that allow their stakeholders to make confident decisions about the future.
RSM US is the US member of RSM International, a global network of independent assurance, tax and consulting firms with 57,000 people in 120 countries.
14. L.E.K. Consulting
L.E.K. Consulting is a global strategy consultancy known for its expertise in strategy, M&A, and operations. The firm provides consulting services to a wide range of industries, including healthcare, life sciences, private equity, consumer products, retail, energy, and financial services.
L.E.K. Consulting helps organizations make informed decisions and achieve sustainable growth by providing insights into market dynamics, competitive positioning, and strategic opportunities. The firm's services include business strategy, performance improvement, organizational transformation, and market entry strategy. L.E.K. uses deep industry knowledge and analytical rigor to deliver practical and actionable solutions to its clients. Founded in 1983, L.E.K. Consulting maintains a global presence, with offices in major cities around the world including in the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific regions.
15. Virtusa
Virtusa Corporation is a global provider of digital engineering and technology services and solutions for Forbes Global 2000 companies in the financial services, healthcare, communications, media, entertainment, travel, manufacturing, and technology industries worldwide. At Virtusa, digital engineering is at the heart of everything they do. Virtusa's unique Engineering First approach means never presenting an idea they can't execute.
Virtusa Helio, their industry-proven generative AI solution, and their consulting offerings are guiding them into the future. As a certified Great Place to Work®, their agile teams, made up of world-class talent, think about execution early in the process because the earlier execution is considered, the earlier an idea can have an impact. Solving from the inside out enables businesses to respond swiftly to changing needs with improved quality, lower costs, and lasting results. They are committed to setting SBTI near-term and net-zero company-wide emission reduction targets to engineer with purpose.
16. Huron
Huron, a renowned global professional services, collaborates with clients to create sound strategies, optimize operations, accelerate digital transformation, and empower businesses and their people - putting the impossible into practice. By embracing diverse perspectives and encouraging new ideas, the firm creates sustainable results for the organizations it serves.
With deep industry expertise in healthcare, education and research, financial services, energy and utilities, industrials and manufacturing, and the public sector, Huron provides tailored solutions that drive growth, enhance performance, and deliver sustainable results. Its team of experts use advanced data analytics, cutting-edge technology, and innovative methodologies to address its client’s complex business challenges and uncover new opportunities.
Huron helps institutions and organizations navigate change, manage risk, and achieve their strategic objectives. Its comprehensive service offerings include operational improvement, technology implementation, strategic planning, and regulatory compliance.
17. Grant Thornton
Grant Thornton is the US member firm of Grant Thornton International, an independent audit and assurance, tax, and advisory firm. Its network comprises over 60,000 professionals in more than 135 countries, assisting public and private organizations of various sizes. The company focuses on building strong relationships and delivering high-quality, collaborative services, emphasizing a personalized approach to business.
With revenues of $2.4 billion for the fiscal year that ended July 31, 2023, and dozens of offices nationwide, Grant Thornton represents more than 9,000 professionals. These experts work in a range of industry groups and advise clients on nearly every aspect of business, from finance and technology to operations and compliance as well as risk mitigation, M&A, strategy and workforce management.
18. BearingPoint
BearingPoint is an independent management and technology consultancy with European roots and a global reach. The company operates in three business units: consulting, products, and capital. Consulting covers the advisory business with a clear focus on selected business areas, products provides IP-driven digital assets and managed services for business-critical processes, and capital delivers M&A and transaction services.
BearingPoint’s clients include many of the world’s leading companies and organizations. The firm has a global consulting network with more than 10,000 people and supports clients in over 70 countries, engaging with them to achieve measurable and sustainable success.
19. ERM
ERM is a global consulting firm specializing in environmental, health, safety, risk, and sustainability services. ERM’s diverse team of more than 8,000 experts in over 150 offices across 40 countries, combines strategic transformation and technical delivery to help clients operationalize sustainability at pace and scale. The firm offers a comprehensive service model that helps organizations to accelerate the integration of sustainability into their strategy and operations.
ERM assists organizations in identifying, assessing, and managing environmental and sustainability risks, as well as ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. The firm offers a wide range of services, including environmental impact assessments, risk assessments, pollution prevention, sustainability strategy development, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and stakeholder engagement.
20. EY-Parthenon
At EY-Parthenon, over 9,000 multidisciplinary professionals in teams across 120 countries, collaborate to provide EY clients with actionable corporate, transaction, and turnaround strategies, aimed at delivering long-term growth. Leveraging expertise in areas such as digital transformation, sector convergence, and financial and operational complexities, EY-Parthenon teams utilize data analytics, leading technology, and digital capabilities to address the toughest strategic issues faced by CEOs.
The firm offers a wide range of services, including corporate and growth strategy, M&A advisory, performance improvement, market entry and expansion strategy, and transaction support. EY-Parthenon's team of consultants works closely with clients to develop and implement strategies that drive sustainable growth, improve performance, and create long-term value.
21. Roland Berger
Roland Berger is a global management consultancy focused on transformation innovation, and performance improvement across all industries. Founded in 1967 in Munich, the firm has more than 50 offices and 3,500 colleagues around the world. Roland Berger provides a wide range of services, including strategy development, corporate performance improvement, restructuring, and marketing and sales.
The firm serves clients across various industries, ranging from automotive, consumer goods, and energy, to financial services, healthcare, industrial products, public services, and technology. Roland Berger focuses on helping clients address their most critical challenges,while capitalizing on strategic opportunities. The firm's consultants work closely with clients to develop and implement strategies that drive sustainable growth and competitive advantage.
22. Infinity
Infinity is an inside sales agency and consulting firm with more than 20 years of experience in helping B2B companies maximize sales and drive revenue. Using its proprietary revenue system known as Buyerlytics, Infinity helps clients develop actionable go-to-market plans for inside sales and service success, including strategy, systems, and execution. Infinity focuses on fostering a high-performance sales culture that enables teams to maximize data, technology, and people to achieve and exceed client goals.
23. Zones
Zones is a global provider of end-to-end IT solutions and delivers unmatched supply chain offerings for its clients. As a minority business enterprise, in business for over 35 years, Zones specializes in digital workplace, cloud and data center, networking, security, and managed, professional, and staffing services.
Operating in more than 120 countries, leveraging a robust portfolio, and utilizing the highest certification levels from key partners, including Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, Lenovo, Adobe, and more, Zones has mastered the science of building digital infrastructures that change the way modern organizations do business. With a global presence spanning four US-based and 12 international technology solution centers, Zones delivers cutting-edge technology solutions, tailored to clients’ specific business needs.
Zones is committed to driving sustainable practices, implementing various initiatives to minimize its environmental footprint, and promoting responsible business practices. Through efforts like energy-efficient systems, eco-conscious packaging, renewable energy transition, and partnerships with eco-friendly vendors, Zones is actively contributing to environmental preservation and creating a positive impact.
24. MathCo
TheMathCompany, also known as MathCo, is a global AI and analytics enterprise, trusted by some of the largest organizations across industries for its data-driven decision making. Founded in 2016, MathCo builds custom data products through its innovative hybrid model and transfers the ownership of intellectual properties to its clients. NucliOS, MathCo’s proprietary platform with pre-built workflows and reusable plug-and-play modules, enables the vision of connected intelligence at a lower TCO.
MathCo’s full-stack team provides a holistic range of services spanning strategy, advanced analytics, data engineering and governance, MLOps, GenAI, data visualization, and adoption advisory services.
25. Beca
Beca is an employee-owned professional services firm that has been delivering community-shaping engineering, advisory, and management consulting services across the Asia-Pacific region for over 100 years. The firm has more than 4,000 people in 21 offices and delivers projects in over 70 countries. Beca has had offices in Australia since 1969 and supports its customers across market segments, including minerals and metals, transport and infrastructure, energy, water, food and life sciences, advanced manufacturing, health, and defense.
Beca aims to understand client needs and deliver successful solutions, high-quality service, and enduring relationships. It uses its skills and systems to drive innovation, helping their clients shape communities, optimize their assets, and streamline their operations.
26. Wavicle Data Solutions
Wavicle Data Solutions is a trusted cloud, data, and analytics consulting and development partner, serving businesses that want to get more value from growing volumes of data. Well-known brands, across various industries, work with Wavicle’s team of data management experts, cloud migration consultants, and analytics professionals to modernize data environments, build robust analytics solutions, and leverage machine learning to improve predictive insights.
Combining its expertise in big-data architectures with artificial intelligence and machine learning concepts, the company helps enterprises imagine new ways to manage costs, increase sales, and become more efficient. Wavicle was founded in 2013, on the principle that modern organizations rely on data to drive their businesses, yet often lack the time, staff, or knowledge to leverage this valuable resource. Wavicle is headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, USA, and Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, and employs over 500 professionals, serving customers worldwide.
27. Tiger Analytics
Tiger Analytics, a global consulting firm specializing in AI and analytics, has a strong track record of guiding various Fortune 1000 companies to tackle their most complex challenges. The firm provides comprehensive AI and analytics services and solutions, enabling businesses to achieve measurable outcomes and value at scale. Its mission is to advance the capabilities of AI and analytics and help enterprises navigate uncertainty and move forward with confidence.
With a team of more than 4000 technologists and consultants based in the US, Canada, the UK, India, Singapore, and Australia, Tiger Analytics works closely with clients across CPG, retail, insurance, BFS, manufacturing, life sciences, and healthcare.
28. CSG Government Solutions
CSG Government Solutions is a national leader in the management of complex projects that modernize the technology and business processes of large government programs. Established in 1997, CSG has been a trusted advisor to the public sector for almost three decades. Its clients include more than 200 state government organizations across 48 states and territories, as well as federal government agencies.
CSG provides project-related services including planning and strategy, program and project management, independent verification and validation, quality assurance, organizational change management, testing, system security, and federal compliance. The firm is dedicated to helping clients implement modern systems for the benefit of everyone who depends on public services.
The firm prides itself on a well-established culture that emphasizes teamwork, communication, and consistent high-quality work, and has built a workforce of talented consultants and experts in the government programs they serve. The firm’s CSG Tech organization provides employees and clients with industry-leading research, training, and automated tools that maximize the productivity and quality of their project teams.
29. Egon Zehnder
Egon Zehnder, a global leadership advisory firm, has provided executive search, leadership development, and board consulting services for over half a century. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, the firm operates in over 40 countries with more than 70 offices worldwide. With 600 consultants across 64 offices in 36 countries, the firm comprises former industry and functional leaders who collaborate across geographies, industries, and functions to provide comprehensive support to every client.
Egon Zehnder partners closely with public and private corporations, family-owned enterprises, and non-profit and government agencies to provide executive search, leadership solutions, CEO search and succession, board advisory, and diversity, equity and inclusion. Its services include discovering leaders, developing leadership, advancing governance, shaping successions, and facilitating transformations. The firm partners with Mobius Executive Leadership to offer experiential, personalized, and transformational programs for senior leaders.
30. BTS
BTS consulting specializes in the people side of strategy. For over three decades, the firm has been designing powerful experiences that leave a profound and lasting impact on businesses and their people - helping the world’s leading companies turn strategy into results.
Henrik Ekelund founded the firm in 1986, with a unique mindset that serves as the core of the firm’s business model: strategy can only be properly executed when the people running the business sit at the forefront of its implementation. BTS puts people first, providing deeply customized, fun, and powerful experiences, with proven success.
The firm’s next-generation approach combines deep business knowledge with transformational development to help clients and their companies evolve together. It equips leaders for tomorrow, inspires new ways of thinking, builds critical capabilities, and makes strategy personal. Originally a Sweden-based firm, BTS has grown to a global scale and now serves 30 of the world’s largest companies and 60 of the Fortune 100.
31. Public Consulting Group
Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Public Consulting Group helps primarily public sector health, education, and human services organizations make measurable improvements to their performance and processes. For more than 35 years, the firm has assisted clients in maximizing resources, controlling costs, enhancing management decisions, streamlining processes, implementing and refining technology solutions, ensuring federal and state compliance, and optimizing client outcomes.
Public Consulting Group manages approximately 1,000 contracts concurrently, with operations spanning all 50 states, 6 Canadian provinces, and the European Union. Its global workforce of over 2,000 employees brings a wide range of expertise in both public and private sectors, including management consulting, Medicaid, special education, technology, workforce empowerment, and financial services, among other areas.
32. Stax
Stax is a global strategy consulting firm specializing in commercial due diligence, value creation, and exit planning for private equity firms, PE-backed companies, hedge funds, and investment banks. It serves a broad range of industries, including software and technology, industrials, business services, healthcare, consumer, and the events ecosystem. The firm partners with clients to provide data-driven, actionable insights designed to drive growth, enhance profits, increase value, and make better investment decisions. Headquartered in Boston, Stax also has offices in Chicago, New York, London, and Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2024, Stax has entered a significant growth phase following a 2022 platform investment by Blue Point Capital Partners. This growth includes geographical and product expansion and provides additional resources and opportunities for its global team while adding greater value to its global clients.
33. Russell Reynolds Associates
Russell Reynolds Associates is a global leadership advisory firm. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in New York City, the firm has more than 500 consultants in 47 offices who work with public, private, and nonprofit organizations across various industries and regions. The firm specializes in executive search, board advisory services, CEO succession planning, and leadership assessment and development and serves a diverse range of industries, including financial services, healthcare, technology, consumer goods, industrial sectors, and nonprofit organizations.
Russell Reynolds Associates assists clients in building leadership teams that skillfully meet contemporary challenges and anticipate trends in digital, economic, sustainability, and political spheres. The firm helps boards improve their structure, culture, and effectiveness, and specializes in identifying, assessing, and defining optimal leadership for organizations. With decades of expertise, its teams support clients in addressing complex leadership issues.
34. Williams Lea
Williams Lea is a global provider of tech-enabled business support services to financial, legal, and professional services firms. The company connects people, processes, and technology to streamline critical business and administrative functions, supporting companies in transitioning to a more virtual and digital workplace.
Williams Lea is a trusted global outsourcing provider for clients in highly regulated environments. The company operates in 20 countries across four continents and employs 7,000 people worldwide. Williams Lea is supported by Advent International, a leading global private equity investor.
35. Frost and Sullivan
Frost and Sullivan is a global consulting firm specializing in market research, analysis, and advisory services. The firm operates in various industries including healthcare, information and communication technology, automotive, energy, and chemicals. For the past 60 years, Frost and Sullivan has provided growth opportunities for companies, governments, and investors.
Frost and Sullivan provides clients with disciplined analysis that supports the generation and evaluation of growth opportunities, as well as best practices recognition to help implement growth strategies. Through its growth advisory service, the firm provides customized analysis to foster a visionary understanding of the market and develop and validate growth strategies through diagnostics. The firm also offers global events and growth coaching programs designed to help companies transform their organization through best practices and experiential learning.
36. Arthur D. Little
Arthur D. Little, a management consulting firm founded in 1886, is renowned for its expertise in strategy, operations, and technology management. Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, with 44 offices across 29 countries, the firm links people, technology, and strategy to help clients find original and pragmatic ways to accelerate performance, innovate through convergence and digital, and make a positive impact on the world. ADL offers a broad spectrum of services including corporate and growth strategy, digital transformation, operational excellence, and risk management, with a notable emphasis on innovation and R&D management.
The firm's industry knowledge spans various sectors such as telecommunications, energy, healthcare, automotive, and chemicals. Arthur D. Little's global presence and diverse clientele, which includes multinational corporations, government agencies, and nonprofits, benefit from its collaborative approach and strategic insights.
37. Davidson Consulting
Established in 2005, Davidson Consulting specializes in the management and execution of technology-driven projects. The firm is known for providing big data and artificial intelligence solutions through network and digital transformation, smart industries, robotics, telemedicine, finance training, research, and development services.
With a network of entities across France, the firm is also extending its reach internationally, with operations in Switzerland, Belgium, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, and Germany. Currently, Davidson employs over 2,000 individuals and has achieved a turnover exceeding €165 million, serving a client base of over 300 organizations who have placed their confidence in the firm.
38. North Highland
North Highland is a global consulting firm that provides strategic advisory, consulting, and technology services to clients across various industries. The firm prioritizes a client-centric approach, focusing on delivering practical solutions that drive sustainable business results. North Highland offers a range of services, including strategy and advisory, customer experience, operations, technology and digital transformation, and change management. The firm works with clients to solve complex challenges, improve organizational performance, and enhance customer engagement.
North Highland is part of Cordence Worldwide, a global management consulting alliance with over 2,600 consultants in 50 offices around the world. North Highland has more than 3,500 experts in over offices around the globe on hand to partner with clients.
39. dss+
dss+ is a global management consulting firm focused on operational risk management and performance. The firm's approach to implementing strategies, aimed to achieve transformational outcomes, is informed by a comprehensive understanding of risk at all stages of the investment lifecycle, from investment strategy to acquisition, value creation, and exit.
With an established reputation for working with multinational companies and investors, dss+ is recognized as a trusted partner, and assists clients in identifying and addressing key environmental, social, and governance as well as operational risks and opportunities. The firm focuses on delivering value to clients by transforming workplace processes and capabilities and in turn, provides sustainable solutions that achieve long-term results throughout the organization.
dss+'s industry and functional expertise is complemented by its acquisition of KKS Advisors. The addition of the KKS team, enhances dss+’s ability to create a world where business and investment decisions prioritize long-term considerations, incorporate ESG factors, and harness the power of capital to generate positive impact.
40. Implement Consulting Group
Implement Consulting Group a global management consulting firm, offers distinct consulting services in areas such as strategy, transformation, leadership, innovation, operations, and digitalization. It works across various industries, including financial services, manufacturing, energy, public sector, and life sciences and is undergoing rapid global expansion.
Headquartered in Copenhagen with offices in Aarhus, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmo, Oslo, Zurich, Munich, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, and Raleigh, Implement Consulting counts more than 1500 colleagues working globally with clients on projects of all shapes, sizes, and ambitions. The firm is distinguished by its focus on co-creating solutions with clients, emphasizing practical implementation and sustainable change.
41. Nordic Consulting Partners
Nordic serves as a strategic partner to health leaders around the world, helping them navigate complexity and harness technology to create healthier systems, businesses, and individuals. Its workforce offers deep clinical expertise and extensive technical knowledge, helping clients prioritize and refine their strategies, ensuring improved care quality and reduced costs. Nordic integrates leadership, IT, and operations to drive long-term success and positive change in the healthcare industry.
Nordic’s global team of more than 3,300 professionals combines deep clinical experience, extensive technical knowledge, insightful strategic vision, and proven operational capability to deliver transformational outcomes for providers and the people in their care. Nordic provides a broad range of consulting services, including strategic advisory, digital and cloud initiatives, implementation and support, and managed services. Nordic partners with over 700 clients to prioritize critical needs and achieve impactful changes that improve the health of health systems and their stakeholders.
42. CACI
CACI is a provider of technology solutions for government agencies and specializes in the defense, intelligence, and homeland security sectors. The company focuses on developing and deploying cutting-edge technologies to address emerging threats and optimize government operations.
CACI develops and delivers technological breakthroughs in order to transform and optimize government operations. It invests ahead of demand and rapidly prototypes technologies such as signals intelligence, electronic warfare, full-spectrum cyber, and photonics, to address emerging threats and support multi-domain operations. CACI is dedicated to enhancing the protection of vital communications and IT infrastructure, and its innovations in deep learning aim to solve complex problems at scale. Its data fusion and visualization technologies aid customers in decision-making, while its business process automation tools shorten timelines and enhance productivity.
43. Berkeley Research Group
Berkeley Research Group is a global consulting firm helping leading organizations advance in three key areas: economics, disputes, and investigations, corporate finance, and performance improvement and advisory. BRG offers expertise across a wide range of industries, including healthcare, construction, energy, financial services, and technology.
Headquartered in California with offices around the world, Berkeley Research Group is an integrated group of experts, industry leaders, academics, data scientists, and professionals, working across borders and disciplines. BRG's team comprises professionals with backgrounds in economics, finance, accounting, engineering, and various other disciplines, enabling the firm to provide comprehensive and multidisciplinary solutions to its clients.
44. Horvath
Horváth is an international, independent management consultancy with more than 1,300 employees across locations in Europe, the US, and other global markets. As a consultancy focused on transformation, performance management, and digitalization, Horváth leads companies and public organizations to sustainable success and generates long-term value creation. The firm offers a range of services, including strategy and innovation, organization and processes, IT management, and business transformation. Horváth works with clients across various industries to improve their efficiency, profitability, and competitive positioning.
The firm's expertise includes areas such as finance and controllership, operations and supply chain management, and customer and sales management. Horváth combines deep industry knowledge with advanced analytical and methodological skills to deliver tailored solutions that drive sustainable success for their clients. With a strong presence in Europe, particularly in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, Horváth is known for its focus on results and practical implementation support.
45. Charles River Associates
Charles River Associates is a global consulting firm that offers economic, financial, and strategic expertise to major law firms, corporations, accounting firms, and governments around the world. CRA’s experts bring a unique combination of cutting-edge research, state-of-the-art methods, and proven experience to help solve its clients’ most complex challenges.
CRA specializes in management consulting and economic litigation. Its senior-led teams include leading academic experts and business leaders with experience across industries. CRA’s proven track record of handling complex cases and distinct strength in delivering insightful analytics makes the firm a trusted advisor for clients in high-profile, high stakes, environments.
46. Analysis Group
Analysis Group is one of the largest international economics consulting firms, with more than 1,200 professionals across 14 offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Since 1981, it has provided expertise in economics, finance, healthcare analytics, and strategy to top law firms, Fortune Global 500 companies, and government agencies worldwide.
The firm’s internal experts, together with their network of affiliated experts from academia, industry, and government, offer clients a unique breadth and depth of expertise. Analysis Group has had a direct hand in some of the most significant antitrust and intellectual property cases to date, highlighting their distinct role in the economic consulting landscape. The firm also has a multidisciplinary healthcare practice, running in parallel to its consulting arm.
47. Centric Consulting
Founded in 1999 with a remote workforce, Centric Consulting is a management consulting firm that provides a wide range of services, including strategy, technology, and business transformation solutions. Headquartered in Ohio, with 1,400 employees and 14 locations, the firm focuses on helping clients improve their business performance and achieve strategic objectives through innovative solutions and partnerships.
Centric is known for its client-centered approach, providing clients with a trusted advisor and the best talent from across the United States and India in every project. Centric deliberately builds teams that can scale, up or down, quickly based on client needs, industry, and desired outcome.
48. Kantar
Kantar is a global data, insights, and consulting company, known for providing clients with valuable information and actionable insights through data analytics and research services. Kantar works across various sectors, including consumer goods, retail, media, healthcare, and public policy, and helps businesses understand consumer behavior, market trends, and brand performance.
Kantar’s expertise in market research, digital analytics, social media intelligence, and consulting services, delivers high-caliber solutions that help clients make informed decisions to drive growth and improve performance. Its services include audience measurement, marketing effectiveness, customer experience management, and innovation and product development. With a presence in over 90 markets worldwide, Kantar leverages its vast data resources and advanced analytics to deliver comprehensive insights to its clients.
49. Chartis
Chartis is a leading provider of research, advisory, and consulting services in the field of risk management and insurance. The firm works with more than 900 clients annually to develop and activate transformative strategies, operating models, and organizational enterprises that make US healthcare more affordable and accessible.
With more than 1,000 professionals, Chartis helps providers, payers, technology innovators, retail companies, and investors create solutions that reshape healthcare. The entire Chartis family of brands, including Jarrard, Greeley, and HealthScape Advisors, has a longstanding commitment to helping transform the industry.
50. Prophet
Prophet is a growth and transformation consulting firm that specializes in branding and marketing services. The firm helps companies define their purpose, position their brands effectively, and create compelling customer experiences. Prophet offers a range of services including brand strategy, marketing strategy, digital transformation, customer experience design, and innovation. It works with clients across various industries including consumer goods, technology, financial services, healthcare, and more.
Founded in 1992 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Prophet operates globally with offices in the US, Europe, and Asia. Its network spans 15 global offices and comprises over 600 strategists, data analysts, marketers, digital experts, and creatives. Prophet has collaborated with notable companies such as CVS Health, Home Depot, Marriott, Netflix, Electrolux, and UBS, supporting them from strategy development to in-market execution.
