Katy George

Senior Partner and Chief People Officer, McKinsey & Company

Katy is McKinsey’s Chief People Officer, as well as a Senior Partner and leader in the firm’s Operations Practice. Based out of New Jersey, she has partnered with clients on their transformations, including operational performance improvement, operations strategy linked to business strategy, and operating model design.

About

In recent years, Katy has focused on advanced technology development and adoption, and the workforce development required to capture the value from these new technologies. She coleads McKinsey’s partnership with MxD, a 250-member consortium of leading government academic and corporate organizations.

Prior to McKinsey, Katy worked as an associate analyst at an economic consulting firm. She holds a high honors degree in economics and government from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University. Her doctoral work focused on labor economics and production/work system design in the apparel industry.