Scott coleads McKinsey's CEO and board excellence work on behalf of the Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice. He spends the vast majority of his time serving Fortune 100 CEOs and top teams in leading enterprise-wide, multiyear change programs, often also playing a direct coaching role to CEOs during their transitions and beyond.



Scott is the cofounder and lead faculty member of McKinsey's Change Leaders Forum and Executive Transitions Master Class, is a featured speaker at multiple CEO and senior executive roundtable events including at the World Economic Forum, and is also a guest lecturer at the USC's Marshall School of Business and University of Dublin's Trinity Business School.


Scott has authored seven books in the field of organization effectiveness, including his two most recent: Leading Organizations: Ten Timeless Truths, coauthored with Mary Meaney, and Beyond Performance 2.0: A Proven Approach to Leading Large-Scale Change, coauthored with Bill Schaninger. He has also written numerous articles that have been featured in the McKinsey Quarterly and Harvard Business Review.


He is also the founder and leader of a global affinity group for parents of special-needs children.