Drew leads McKinsey’s culture and experience solutions group, where he develops scientifically driven methodologies that push the boundaries of organizational excellence. Drew provides hands-on, personalized advisory support to clients across industries, guiding them on a journey toward attracting top-tier talent, fostering inclusivity, and optimizing organizational design for peak performance.
With a focus on creating tools that matter, Drew empowers leaders to benchmark crucial aspects of the workplace culture and experience and take a data-backed approach to driving change. At the helm of a team of more than 100 experts, he orchestrates efforts to continually enhance and innovate the full portfolio of these groundbreaking solutions, ensuring that each tool delivers tangible results.
Drawing on extensive experience, Drew works with company leaders to apply cutting-edge organizational diagnostics that go beyond conventional wisdom to help measure and assess the behaviors and practices that contribute to success. Most notably, he leads the Organizational Health Index (OHI), hailed as the single best predictor of an organization's future operational and financial performance. Across more than 100 deployments of the OHI, Drew has provided leaders with incisive insights into “how to run the place.”
Drew’s portfolio also includes the Inclusion Assessment, a landmark tool that he helped to create, which is used by hundreds of organizations globally to define, measure, and address inclusion and enhance workplace performance.
Examples of his recent client work include the following:
- guiding a biotech company through an organizational health transformation, identifying change agents, strengthening the executive team, and enabling new ways of working to achieve strategic growth targets
- orchestrating a comprehensive revamp of talent management and acquisition for an energy company by resetting strategy and reorganizing and re-engineering processes to meet evolving business demands
- leading an end-to-end transformation for a private-equity group and its portfolio companies focused on increasing inclusion; the effort set a three-year strategy, built capabilities, shifted behaviour, and tracked results
- conducting a workforce study for a meal-delivery company to anticipate how increased demand and new regulatory changes could impact the business; the team used demand scenarios to create a dynamic strategic plan for scaling the workforce
- heading an inclusive leadership program at a global bank, enriching the capabilities of C-suite and top executives and making inclusion a competitive advantage during a time of extreme disruption for the organization
Interested in sharing perspectives and insights, Drew is a sought-after speaker, returning regularly to talent and HR conferences such as Culturati, Workhuman, and America’s Public Media Summit. He also publishes frequently on organizational health and inclusion topics.
Before joining McKinsey, Drew helped assess company cultures and teach businesses about investing in the workplace. He is the original creator of the Fortune 100 “Great Places to Work” list.
