Asutosh Padhi

Asutosh is a senior partner and the managing partner for McKinsey in North America, leading the firm across the United States, Canada, and Mexico and serving as part of McKinsey’s 15-person global leadership team. He is also a member of McKinsey’s Shareholders Council, the firm’s equivalent to a board of directors. He is co-author of The Titanium Economy: How Industrial Technology Can Create a Better, Faster, Stronger America.

Since joining the firm, Asutosh has helped high-performing, iconic industrial companies with functional, business units and enterprise transformations by drawing on his strategic, organizational, and operations expertise. Previously, he coled the firm’s global advanced industries sector that includes automotive and assembly, aerospace and defense and electronics and industrial.

Asutosh is a coach and advisor on performance transformations that involve revenue acceleration, new business models, technology and innovation, margin and cash flow improvement, and large-scale operating model redesign.

He founded the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility, which helps business leaders and policy makers lead change and prepare for a more autonomous, interconnected future. He is also the executive sponsor for McKinsey & Company’s work with the Rework America Alliance, a Markle Foundation initiative that seeks to advance opportunities for millions of unemployed and low-wage workers to transition into better, more skilled jobs, and emerge from the economic crisis stronger.

Asutosh regularly convenes CEOs and board members on myriad topics, including driving sustainable value creation. He also serves on the Field Museum’s board of trustees, one of the top ten natural history and science museums in the world.

After graduating with a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, Asutosh received his post-graduate in management from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad in 1995.