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Net Zero: 2022 Perspective

For a third consecutive year, Eden McCallum welcomed Lord Turner to discuss what has changed over the past 12 months in the prospects for a successful shift to a world of “Net Zero” carbon emissions. He is ideally placed to do so as Chairman of the Energy Transitions Commission (ETC), a global coalition of major…

Implications of a Net Zero Carbon Economy

Our planet is warming, and the need to prevent further damaging climate change is urgent. The good news is that while this task is daunting, it is also doable. This was the conclusion of a fascinating breakfast seminar hosted by Eden McCallum at London’s National Portrait Gallery on 5 February. The event was focusing on…

February 2020

Breakfast audience with Elizabeth Mohr on ‘Behavioural science in organisations: The neuroscience of influencing others’

We recently held consultant breakfast events in our Amsterdam and London offices, and were joined by Elizabeth Mohr who spoke about ‘Behavioural Science in Organisations’ to packed audiences in both. She led that while consultants are often very strong in facilitating strategic decision making and often deploy meticulously honed ‘influencing techniques’, they often do not…

November 2019

Celebrating the UK's Annual Pro Bono Week

For the UK’s annual Pro Bono Week, I thought I’d write about a charity project I did a few weeks ago. One of the reasons I joined the Eden McCallum Analyst Programme a year ago is because of the opportunities to contribute to work with their NGO partners. A year later, some time between projects…

November 2019

Eden McCallum’s NGO Partnership: an analyst’s perspective

Eden McCallum launched our unique NGO Partnership in 2008 with Impetus and Virgin Unite as our two founding NGO Partners.  Save the Children UK and The Royal Foundation joined as Partners in 2014 and 2018 respectively.  In the last 11 years, our consultants have delivered over 140 pro bono projects in the UK and abroad,…

August 2019

Findings from the Eden McCallum LBS Future of Consulting survey 2018

Jobs are changing, and so is the language we use to talk about them. Flexibility has been a watchword, and perhaps sometimes an abstract principle, for a long time, but it is now more prevalent in practice.

March 2019

The surprising power of people and computers thinking together: Professor Thomas Malone on 'Superminds'

Summary of discussion hosted by Eden McCallum at the Royal Society

“We often over-estimate the potential of AI. It is easy to imagine computers as smart as people, but unfortunately it is much harder to create them. On the other hand, we often under-estimate the potential of hyperconnectivity, perhaps because it is easier to…

January 2019

Highlights from the Eden McCallum-LBS Future of Consulting Survey 2018

January 2019

Nick Brown joins Eden McCallum as Managing Partner

Eden McCallum is happy to announce that Nick Brown has joined the firm as Managing Partner.

January 2019

Business gloom grows as Brexit reality draws near

Levels of pessimism are up, investment is down, while the struggle to find good people intensifies Britain’s business leaders are braced for an extremely difficult 2019 as the reality of Brexit hits. The sixth annual Eden McCallum economic outlook survey of 192 senior business leaders has found that optimism is currently in very short supply….

December 2018

Eurozone anxiety grows as Dutch business looks ahead

Former optimism slips as the situation in Europe and globally proves a cause for concern Dutch business leaders’ optimism has lost some of its shine in the past 12 months, recognising dangers which seemed to represent much less of a threat only a year ago. That is the clear message to emerge from this year’s…

December 2018