Leading Professional Service Firms

Who Is Right for the Program

Leading Professional Service Firms is specifically designed for company and practice leaders around the world who are responsible for defining and executing company or service-line strategy. As different types of service firms face similar challenges, participants represent a range of industries, including consulting, legal, accounting, architecture and engineering, marketing and advertising, venture capital, investment banking, computer software development, and technology systems integration. Typical attendee titles include:

  • Chief executive officer
  • Executive vice president
  • Partner
  • Principal
  • Managing director
  • Office manager
  • Practice leader

Visit the admissions section for details about our application process.

Past Participants Represented:

Industries Nationalities
1% Chem/Pharm/Bio 2% Africa
1% Communications 4% Asia
1% Consumer Products 8% Australia/NZ
6% Financial 46% Europe
1% High Technology 2% Latin America
1% Manufacturing 1% Middle East
2% Nonprofit Services 36% North America
2% Other 1% Other
6% Other Services
72% Professional Services
1% Raw Materials/Energy
5% Real Estate/Construction
1% Utilities/Telecommunications

Participating Companies Have Included:

Allen & Overy
Barclays Bank plc
Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.
Brunswick Corporation
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Ernst & Young Global Limited
Forrester Research, Inc.
Grey Global Group, Inc.
Hammonds Technical
   Services, Inc.
Hewlett-Packard Company

KPMG InternationalLinklaters
Microsoft Corporation
Moody's Investors Service, Inc.
Oracle Corporation
Strutt & Parker
Royal Bank of Scotland
   Group plc
Towers Perrin
Unisys Corporation
White & Case LLP

"Leading Professional Service Firms was a challenging and enlightening program. Interacting with peers from different types of professional service firms enabled me to examine pertinent and compelling issues in ways that departed from the 'law firm' context. As a result, I can analyze my own individual practice, my group's practice, and our entire law firm's operations from much broader and more meaningful perspectives. This refined focus on the 'business' of practicing law will prove invaluable as we continue to grow our firm and intelligently manage our resources."
Robbie Poplin [Partner; Practice Group Leader], Kilpatrick Stockton, U.S.