INTEGRATIVE THINKING AND YOUR CAREER IN...
 Consulting

The Rotman Strategic Management faculty is widely considered to be one of the world’s best, alongside Harvard, Kellogg and Yale. In the competitive world of business education, Rotman has one key advantage that no other school can match: an innovative approach built on Integrative Thinking.

Our students receive a solid grounding in all the functional areas of business: Strategic Management, Marketing, Organizational Behaviour, etc. But they also learn how to think beyond them to consider the big picture, approaching each challenge with creativity, a willingness to consider multiple perspectives, and the ability to build new and better models. Our groundbreaking approach can help you shape your business — and the world— for the better.

Currently, more than 1,000 Rotman alumni work in professional services. Meet some recent graduates who are putting Integrative Thinking to work in the world of Consulting:

Margi Moscoe (MBA), Senior Associate, Infosys Consulting, New York City : "Integrative Thinking has taught me to separate my ego from the effort and time that I put into developing my work.  I now realize that the best solution will be generated in collaboration with the client.  When presenting to clients I focus on working with them to build a better model rather than quickly trying to defend my team’s chosen approach and ‘solution’.  I concentrate my efforts on training the client to understand that they 'own' part of the solution and that success is defined by an outcome that integrates our differing mental models."

 

Karamjot Singh Bains (MBA), Consultant, Monitor Group, Toronto:
"A profession in client advisory services requires me to bring to bear not only the highest quality analysis and insights but also the ability to empathize with and understand client perspectives. Such important yet undervalued skills are what Integrative Thinking has allowed me to learn and deploy in my role."






Ravi Prashad (MBA), Consultant, The Boston Consulting Group, Toronto: "Integrative Thinking is the cornerstone of success in consulting.
Our clients ask us to partner with them in tackling challenges that are big, complex and unique to them. To deliver impact, we must apply three things: theory-driven deductive logic, data-driven inductive logic, and ‘the art of the possible’, or abductive logic. Integrative Thinking is critical in ensuring that we design a solution that resolves the most salient issues in an ocean of interrelated challenges. At the same time, we must articulate the different mental models in the organization in order to bring new facts to light and ensure that our stakeholders ‘own’ the answer. Being trained in Integrative Thinking gives me a definite advantage over those who are first exposed to these complex concepts on the job."

Erez Eizenman (MBA), Senior Associate, McKinsey & Co., Toronto: "Rotman, and the Integrative Thinking curriculum in particular, have prepared me well for the associate role at McKinsey. There are two features of the integrative thinking curriculum that have been especially important for me: considering multi-directional and non-linear causality between salient features of a problem and keeping the 'big picture' in mind while working on individual parts of a problem. At McKinsey, our clients expect us to bring our expertise and knowledge to bear on the problems that we help them solve; I have been able to do this and suggest creative solutions to problems my clients face by identifying salient features between different industries that I have served. As an associate, I am responsible for a specific workstream or facet of a problem, but my Rotman training has taught me to keep the big picture in mind, thus allowing me to provide clients with the top management thinking they expect of McKinsey."


Professional Services firms recruiting at Rotman in the past two years include:

Prospective students interested in careers in Consulting will want to: