Brooke Weddle, Ph.D
Partner at McKinsey & Company, Washington D.C.
As a leader in McKinsey’s People & Organizational Performance Practice, Brooke helps organizations across the world achieve sustained performance through transformation. Globally, she leads our work on People and Organizational Performance for Advanced Industries, which includes aerospace and defense, semiconductor, industrial, and automotive and assembly practices. In addition, she leads the Change Leaders Forum, our executive capability-building series on transformational change, McKinsey’s Culture and Change Management service line in North America and our External Relations for the DC/VA/MD region. She is co-Host of McKinsey Talks Talent podcast.
Most recently, Brooke led the firm’s portfolio of digital solutions, overseeing global client delivery of proprietary analytics tools for performance and health transformations. Brooke helped build the portfolio which now encompasses more than 15 solutions deployed across thousands of clients. It includes the Organizational Health Index, OrgLab, and People Analytics, among others.
In her more than 15 years as a consultant, Brooke has worked with company leaders to achieve organizational transformations across diverse industries and regions, including Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and North America.
Examples of her recent client work include the following:
Operating model redesign at a $200B+ global payments company to better align the organization to its performance objectives
Org transformation at a Fortune 50 healthcare company to drive more speed and organizational agility
Org transformation for a global medical supplies conglomerate that resulted in both operating-model redesign and cultural transformation
Digital transformation at $60B+ advanced industries company, including an end-to-end culture transformation
Brooke frequently publishes on organizational topics and is an in-demand speaker internationally, having spoken at hundreds of conferences and been featured on CBS News and in Le Figaro, Le Monde, The Washington Post, and The Financial Times. She is a member of the Economic Club of DC, and leads executive roundtables on talent priorities in the area.
Prior to joining McKinsey, Brooke served as a US Department of State Fulbright scholar in Peru.
expertise
Advanced Industries
published work
“Government transformations in times of extraordinary change: Key considerations for public-sector leaders,” McKinsey & Company, August 2021
“Culture in the hybrid workplace,” podcast, McKinsey & Company, June 2021
“Organizing for speed in healthcare in a post-COVID-19 era,” McKinsey & Company, April 2021
“Seizing the moment: Talent challenges and opportunities in aerospace and defense,” McKinsey & Company, April 2021
“The need for speed in the post-COVID-19 era—and how to achieve it,” McKinsey & Company, September 2020
“Organizing for speed in advanced industries,” McKinsey & Company, August 2020
“Call to action: How A&D companies can build the workforce of the future,” McKinsey & Company, August 2020
“Driving organizational and behavior changes during a pandemic,” blog entry, McKinsey & Company, August 2020
“Thriving during a pandemic: What moves the needle on organizational health,” blog entry, McKinsey & Company, July 2020
“Establish a performance culture as your ‘secret sauce,’” blog entry, McKinsey & Company, July 2020
“How can utilities protect and strengthen their culture during the COVID crisis?,” blog entry, McKinsey & Company, July 2020
“Building the tech talent pipeline,” McKinsey & Company, December 2019
“What makes an organization ‘healthy’?,” McKinsey Quarterly, March 2019
“The symbiotic relationship between organizational health and safety,” McKinsey Quarterly, November 2018
“Your organization’s health: the ultimate competitive edge,” blog entry, McKinsey & Company, August 2018
“The yin and yang of organizational health,” McKinsey Quarterly, November 2017
“Screening the organizational health of Korea’s companies,” McKinsey Quarterly, August 2016
education
Stanford University
PhD, international education policy
MA, economics
MA, Spanish
University of Virginia
BA, economics and Spanish