Chris Gagnon, MBA
Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company Austin
Chris is former leader of our Global Organization Practice. He works with clients to improve their performance and health by taking an integrated approach to align Org design with culture, talent, change management and leadership. He has worked with clients in many sectors including consumer products, technology, private equity and hospitality and leisure.
Chris leads our OrgSolutions- McKinsey’s efforts to bring “hard” data, tools and analytics to the “soft” topics of organization. A few of the tools Chris developed with the OrgSolutions group include the Organizational Health Index (OHI), OrgLab, People Analytics, and INSPIRE.
Recently, Chris has led McKinsey’s research into “Organizing for the Future”- learning from the most aggressive organizational experiments and approaches in the world. This research is helping bring new approaches to our clients that are faster, more tech-enabled, and more human centered.
He has published numerous articles in the Harvard Business Review and the McKinsey Quarterly. He also led the team that cowrote the book Real Change Leaders: How You Can Create Growth and High Performance at Your Company.
Chris lives in Austin, TX. In his free time, Chris enjoys working out, chess, blues harmonica and he coaches youth (AAU) basketball.
podcasts
“Going from fragile to agile,” McKinsey & Company, December 2015
published work
“The Nine Traits of Future Ready Companies”- McKinsey Interactive
“Organizing for the age of urgency”, McKinsey Quarterly, January 2018
“Safe enough to try: An interview with Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh”, McKinsey Quarterly, October 2017
“Organizational health: A fast track to performance improvement,” McKinsey Quarterly, September 2017
“Organizing for the future,” McKinsey Quarterly, January 2016
“Leadership in context,” McKinsey Quarterly, January 2016
“Agility: It rhymes with stability,” McKinsey Quarterly, December 2015
“Why agility pays,” McKinsey Quarterly, December 2015
“Decoding leadership: What really matters,” McKinsey Quarterly, January 2015
education
Amos Tuck School of Business Administration
MBA
Dartmouth College
AB