Carolyn Dewar leads the CEO Excellence practice for consultancy McKinsey and Company, where she is also a Senior Partner. Carolyn coaches many Fortune 100 CEOs to maximize their effectiveness in the role, including business aspiration-setting, organization shifts, top-team effectiveness, managing external stakeholders, board engagement, and resetting their own personal operating model. She works extensively with clients to drive performance at pivotal moments—such as mergers, strategic shifts, crisis and lead large-scale improvement programs integrating strategic, operational, and cultural initiatives.

Carolyn also leads ongoing research on CEO and leadership effectiveness and has published widely, including her new book CEO EXCELLENCE which draw on intimate interviews with 67 of the world’s best CEOs to understand the mindsets that set them apart.

Carolyn is a Canadian and British citizen, and currently lives in San Francisco with her two children and husband.

Vik Malhotra is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company. He currently leads the firm’s Professional Standards Committee. From 2004 to 2017, Vik served on McKinsey’s Board of Directors chairing the People Committee and the Governance & Risk Committee. Vik has also served as the Managing Partner of the Americas, and over time has led parts of our Banking Practice and Insurance Practice.

Vik joined the Firm in 1986 and has spent his career in the New York Office. During his time at McKinsey, his consulting experience has covered a broad range of assignments on performance transformation, corporate strategy, business unit strategy, growth strategies, organizational effectiveness, and operational improvement. Much of Vik’s current focus is on counseling CEOs and Boards on a range of issues.

Vik is also active with major non-profits outside McKinsey. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Board at the Wharton Graduate School (University of Pennsylvania).

He is also a Trustee Emeriti of The New York City Partnership, the Asia Society, and the Conference Board.

Before joining McKinsey, Vik graduated from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Prior to receiving his MBA he worked at the accounting firm of Ernst & Whinney in London, England. Vik received his undergraduate degree in economics from the London School of Economics in 1980.

Scott co-leads McKinsey & Company's global CEO and Board Excellence practice as part of his position as a Senior Partner in the firm's Southern California office.

A Mechanical Engineer by training, he spent most of his early consulting years working on business strategy and operational topics, until his life was turned upside down by his second child who was born with profound special needs. After taking time off to tend to his family, Scott returned to McKinsey with the clarity to bring the best of psychology, social science, and the field of human potential into the workplace.

Ten years later, Scott coauthored the Inc.com bestseller, Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage (Wiley, 2011). He has since written six more books on leadership and organization effectiveness, including his latest, the New York Times bestseller, CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest. He has also published over fifty articles for the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Chief Executive Magazine, The Conference Board, Inc.com, and the McKinsey Quarterly, and is a featured speaker at multiple CEO roundtables and guest lecturer at Harvard Business School, among many others in the US and around the world. The bulk of his time, however, is spent directly counselling CEOs and their teams on maximizing the performance of their organizations.

Outside of McKinsey, Scott is a cofounder of Digital Divide Data, a multi-award-winning social enterprise. Further afield, Scott is a heavy metal music aficionado featured musician in Rock Camp: The Movie (2021), has played guitar on multiple movie and TV soundtracks, and is also credited as a songwriter and music and documentary producer. He also loves to travel and is one of a few hundred people in history verified by NomadMania to have traveled to every country in the world. His favorite place, however, is Southern California, where he lives with his family.

Kurt Strovink leads McKinsey’s CEO special initiative globally. He works at the intersection of strategy, personal leadership, mission building, and enterprise transformation. A Senior Partner in our New York office, he has expertise in CEO transitions and the role of the CEO as organizational catalyst. Kurt is a member of McKinsey’s Board of Directors, and he has led its global insurance practice and its New York office as managing partner.