Chris Bradley

Chris Bradley is a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and serves as a director of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), where he leads research on the economic and business issues most critical to the world’s companies and policy leaders. He brings insights from a wide repertoire of industries and 25 years McKinsey experience. He previously led McKinsey’s Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice across Asia and developed many of our firm’s modern strategy frameworks.

Chris helps major institutions make big moves in response to new industry dynamics through enterprise-wide strategic transformation and growth programs, blending strategic pivots and accelerated performance improvement enabled with technology. His recent client work spans software, media, banking, retail, consumer packaged goods, and telecommunications.

Chris leads research on productivity and growth, industrial development, demographics, and the energy transition. His recent publications include: The next big arenas of competition; Dependency and depopulation? Confronting the consequences of a new demographic reality; and The hard stuff: Navigating the physical realities of the energy transition. His series On the Cusp of a new era? offers a provocative view of how the accepted realities that made our world the way it is have irrevocably and profoundly shifted—a discussion he has held with several dozen management teams across the world. In his home market of Australia, he is at the forefront of the debate about how to restore productivity growth.

He is the coauthor of the internationally best-selling book Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick (John Wiley & Sons, 2018) and originated McKinsey’s Ten Timeless Tests of Strategy.

Chris is a passionate guitar player, skier, and adventure motorcyclist, and a father to three daughters.