Roles in this career area involve formulating, planning and implementing business strategy via transformation and integration projects. This could apply to any function or area of a company’s value chain from market entry and exit decisions, to product and service portfolio strategy, to operations strategy and optimization. Professionals in this area work in corporate strategy departments, corporate innovation units, venture-building units and as consultants in management consulting firms and firms specialized in strategy consulting and industry analysis.

Professionals in this area focus on every company’s most strategic asset—people.  It’s about developing and managing the implementation of strategies for hiring, engaging, training and developing talent. It’s also about designing organizational structures, building an organizational culture, and implementing employee-centric systems and initiatives that drive well-being, engagement and performance.  Roles in this area are in talent departments, HR departments, learning & development units and corporate universities. Professionals in this area also work in the talent and organization groups within management consulting firms and firms specialized in talent and organizational consulting and training.