Kevin Mcdermott Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

Some representative engagements:• Thought-leadership strategy in collaboration with AT Kearney partners, notably in innovation and healthcare. Added as Executive Agenda peer reviewer in 2012.• Produced Masters of Innovation (March 2015) for AT Kearney. Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum said of the book “by providing a wide range of engaging case studies Masters of Innovation highlights the practical ways that companies can continuously improve and execute their innovation strategies.” Reprinted one month after publication. Soon to be translated into German and Chinese.• Coauthor of “Unintended Consequences” series on HuffingtonPost.• Collaborated in creating an ambitious case-study and webinar series informed by the goal of United Way of America’s organizational transformation—a series christened Transformation Diaries. Wrote and researched the cases that became the foundation of UWA’s leadership-development program.• Used an online-strategy engagement to compel founders in a financial-services startup to articulate a vision for the new firm that previously eluded them. Transformed a conventional content-development effort into a pillar of the young company's business strategy, accelerating its early-stage growth.• The 8th International Conference on Knowledge, Culture & Change in Organisations spotlighted lessons from CI’s client work at Cambridge University.• Peer reviewer for California Management Review.

My continuing scenario-planning work partnership with FSG has included an “alternative-futures” summit with foreign-policy experts in and out of US government; a 20-year strategic view for the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey; and a ground-up reimagining of medical residencies in the early 21st Century for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Greater New York City Area

Wide-ranging thought-leadership portfolio including speeches and conference prep for chairman Ginni Rometty.

Recruited by Taproot to help lead strategy scan and organizational-development work for a large New York City waterfront-development nonprofit.

Greater New York City Area

• I was for six years under a full-time retainer to McKinsey & Co. developing the firm’s first global intranet. In addition to sketching the initial architecture of the wireframe for the effort I helped devise a content strategy explicitly hardwired into the firm’s knowledge-development effort around the world.• Originated a method of delivering rigorous narratives of client work intelligently linked to research and available for immediate application among McKinsey’s clients around the world. These narratives were married to multiplatform elements--digital, print and video--in ways prefiguring Web 2.0.• Less than a year after starting the project the McKinsey tools were the subject of my presentation to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology forum on “Groupware & Electronic Communities”.

Before the launch of Collective Intelligence my training as a reporter and then as a managing editor was profoundly important to nourishing a talent for recognizing patterns among seemingly unrelated ideas and for expressing insight in lively, concrete ways.Entrepreneurial projects include reporting for The Atlantic Monthly in Haiti, The New York Times in Britain, and The Washington Post and Saveur in France. I made a specialty of international business and finance reporting for such publications as Business Week, The Economist and Business International, now part of the Economist Intelligence Unit. As managing editor of D&B Reports, the leader among the former Dun & Bradstreet’s stable of business titles, I created the magazine’s first consistent coverage of international news.

Ma, American Studies

Ba With Honors, Political Science & English

Activities and Societies: Senior Honor Society