Today’s workforce mandate requires speed, agility, and flexibility—especially where outsourced resourcing is concerned. Accessing the exact skills and expertise needed to move forward on your most pressing projects and priorities is paramount, which is why the ability to engage and leverage perfect-fit talent—remote or on-site, part-time or full-time, individuals or teams, anywhere in the world—accelerates competitive advantage in our increasingly complex business environment.
When it comes to “typical” talent from Business Talent Group (BTG), our network of carefully curated, vetted consultants, subject matter experts, operators, executives, and interim leaders are anything but typical. They’re leaders, thinkers, and doers hailing from Big 3 consulting firms and boutique and specialty firms, as well as Fortune’s 50 most admired companies across industries and functions. In fact, more than 50% of the F100 and hundreds of other leading companies trust BTG to curate, vet, and compliantly deliver talent who fuel growth, innovation, and performance improvement.
Starting with stats: a BTG typical talent overview
Among our network of 35,000+ experts, we have:
- Senior operators and executives specialized in moments of transformation, innovation, and expansion
- Project leaders skilled in integrations, product launches, standing up new business lines, upgrading key functions, and more
- Top management consultants and project and program mangers “unbundled” from the traditional consulting firm model
- Cutting-edge specialists with data science, AI, and other emerging, in-demand skills
Your perfect resourcing solution might not be a one-in-a-million unicorn. It could be a duo, trio, or team of experts. It might be a project split into multiple phases, each requiring differing skills and a seamless hand-off to execute effectively. It could be an interim leadership engagement. Regardless of your needs, BTG can deliver your ideal talent, with the skills, expertise, and capacity you need to move onward and upward.
BTG talent go far beyond bullet points on a page. They are in-demand experts with illustrious backgrounds and a wealth of industry and functional expertise. Instead of just telling you what (and who) we have to offer, today we’re going to show some examples of the highly skilled independent professionals available in the BTG talent community.
Management consultants
When internal problems or special projects arise, the corporate instinct is often to turn to the Big Three. In addition to brand name recognition, these firms deliver expertise from skilled management consultants with experience from a single firm—but it’s often fulfilled through pre-packaged frameworks completed by large, pyramid-shaped teams composed of new analysts and junior consultants. The fees are fixed (and high, at that) which can make this avenue high-risk for varied rewards.
With BTG, on the other hand, clients can quickly access in-demand talent with consulting firm expertise to solve specific business problems, maximize value, and deliver savings of up to 63%. Our streamlined, targeted engagements deliver cost-effective custom talent configurations in addition to a dedicated BTG team that supports, scopes, curates, and vets to find the perfect solution and ensure quality execution.
The former big firm consultants in BTG’s talent network are seasoned experts who excel at diagnosing complex business problems and implementing effective strategies. They bring a wealth of industry experience and analytical prowess to each engagement, ensuring that organizations achieve strategic objectives. Whether it’s driving growth, optimizing operations, or transforming business models, our management consultants deliver actionable insights and tailored solutions with precision and impact.
Join us as we share a few examples of talent profiles and the engagements they have worked on with and through BTG.
International Integration Lead
A former KPMG consultant and managing director of Hitachi Consulting with over 20 years’ experience driving business transformation, organizational restructuring, and turnaround projects across multiple industries. With commercial, due diligence, carve-out, and post-merger integration expertise, this leader has managed and delivered countless integration initiatives, operational restructurings, and turnaround projects in the healthcare, industrial, private equity, and professional services sectors.
BTG Placement:
When an international consulting firm was seeking a senior leader to support post-merger integration efforts, this consultant led the integration initiative, oversaw related workstreams, and supported the client’s growth targets.
Strategy & Transformation Consultant
A former BCG strategy consultant with extensive experience defining, shaping, and realizing ambitious transformations in asset-intensive sectors across Europe. Experienced in cost reduction, PMO, carve-outs, organizational restructuring, change management, and more, this leader’s tenacity for rolling up sleeves and getting work done alongside colleagues, senior leadership, and the like is evident on every project he’s placed on.
BTG Placement:
When a PE-backed European specialty chemicals company needed the support of a transformation leader, this expert collaborated with senior leadership while effectively overseeing and leading the transformation through completion.
HR Leader & Strategic Advisor
A renowned consultant, coach, and adjunct professor with more than 25 years of experience creating and implementing initiatives to drive positive social and community impact, foster diversity and inclusion, and enhance ESG and sustainability performance, having held roles like chief ESG and people officer and global head of D&I, corporate responsibility, and ESG.
BTG Placement:
When the leadership team of a Fortune 500 convenience store chain recognized the importance of maturing their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) approach and wanted to establish an office of sustainability for the Americas to prioritize related strategic initiatives, this consultant conducted a comprehensive assessment of the existing ESG roadmap. After performing gap and opportunity analyses, the talent identified and prioritized improvement areas and offered recommendations on establishing the new sustainability office.
Interim leadership
Our pool of interim leaders contains highly skilled professionals who are equipped to step into critical roles to provide executive leadership during times of transition or transformation. With a proven track record of navigating corporate challenges, they offer immediate stability and strategic direction. An interim leader from BTG can drive performance, manage change effectively, and achieve sustainable results, ensuring business continuity and long-term success.
In this year’s High-End Independent Talent Report, we found that demand has increased for experienced and capable interim leaders at all levels (+23% YOY, +170% since 2022) to address critical challenges, guide strategic initiatives, and maintain stability during times of transition. Not only that, but the report shows that the finance function still leads the pack with interim placements. Continually we’ve seen significant increases in requests for interim CFOs, ringing in at 54% of all interim C-suite needs (+46% YOY), as well as SVP/VP-level finance leaders like Controllers and heads of FP&A (+114%). Additional areas of high demand include leaders in human resources (#2 interim function) and digital, data, and IT (#3 function, +47%).
Interim CFO
An experienced interim CFO and former Deloitte Senior Manager with right-fit strategic, financial, accounting, and operational expertise across financial services, private equity and venture capital, retail, professional services, and tech. This leader is adept at partnering with financial sponsors, management teams, and boards of directors to drive sustainable change and value and has a knack for utilizing creativity to design and execute innovative business solutions.
BTG Placement:
A private equity firm with $4.5 billion+ in assets under management was looking for an interim CFO to lead a portfolio company’s finance team through the carve-out of two business units. This perfect-fit interim executive supported the stand-up of the businesses and navigated FP&A staffing, organization, and a complex multi-unit ERP implementation.
Interim Operations Director
A demonstrated contact center leader and transformation consultant with experience in all aspects of the customer lifecycle, both in-house and with outsourced multi-site contact center operations. This executive’s wealth of knowledge includes customer service, sales management, operational excellence, cost control and reduction, engagement, performance analysis, and more.
BTG Placement:
When a UK-based financial services firm sought an interim operations leader to steady the ship during the period between the incumbent director’s departure and the start date for the replacement, this leader provided critical coverage during the leadership gap as the client explored long-term solutions and additional supporting roles.
Interim Operations and Client Experience Expert
A strong and accomplished transformational enterprise technology leader with deep B2B SaaS experience and a proven record delivering and developing sales leadership, product enhancements, and client services for large financial institutions. This expert also possesses M&A, turnaround, system integration, Six Sigma process reengineering, and rapid growth expertise.
BTG Placements:
For the former, the consultant provided critical transformation expertise and supported the client in streamlining billing and invoicing operations amid a larger leadership structure transformation. The talent focused on achieving revenue targets, client satisfaction, and more effective team management while leading the overall business and providing strategic direction, leadership, and guidance for both day-to-day activities and broader strategic initiatives.
For the latter, the talent focused on developing segment journey experience strategies to grow segments that drive customer satisfaction and loyalty. They demonstrated success by creating a customer experience improvement plan and coordinated onboarding of retail colleagues on the effective use of CX principles, ensuring consistent application across the business.
Project managers, product managers, and program managers
These skilled project leads are adept at steering complex initiatives from inception to completion. They possess a deep understanding of project management methodologies and best practices, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and under budget. Their robust skillset encompasses strategic planning, resource management, and risk mitigation, enabling organizations to execute high-impact projects that drive innovation and competitive advantage.
Independent Life Sciences Consultant
A renowned scientist turned project manager specializing in pharma and biotech research and development (R&D) with experience seamlessly integrating quality organizations. Broad experience in corporate and entrepreneurial strategic planning, business development, sales and marketing, process optimization, and change management make this expert an effective solution for life science leaders today.
BTG Placement:
With business process optimization and change management know-how, this talent developed and executed a detailed integration plan for a large pharmaceutical firm after it had acquired a biotech company. The expert designed tailored communication strategies for various stakeholders and oversaw quality assurance to standards and regulatory requirements.
Pharma Strategy & Transformation Consultant
A former Gemini Consulting practice lead turned operational strategy and transformation consultant with expertise in post-merger integrations for quality and compliance systems, PMO and remediation management, analytics and AI, and supply chain
BTG Placement:
When an F100 pharma company sought integration and regulatory expertise, this leader supported several initiatives, including accessing source data and documents, populating inspection readiness templates, and quality checking transcribed data to ensure cohesiveness during the integration period.
Product Management Consultant
Skilled strategy, digital transformation, and product management leader and McKinsey data product owner with over 18 years of experience in innovation with startups, and agile product management and development.
BTG Placement:
When the AI and machine learning team at an F500 chemicals company needed a product manager to support ongoing digital transformation efforts, this PM led product strategy efforts by focusing on product vision and creating a roadmap for success using data gleaned through validation efforts—namely, the validation of relevant customer, value proposition, growth and viability, and ROI assumptions. This work paved the way for a holistic digital transformation.
Operators and executives
Our operators and executives bring practical knowledge and a results-oriented mindset to their roles. They are adept at optimizing business processes, driving efficiency, and enhancing organizational performance across various functions. With a focus on achieving measurable outcomes, these leaders empower businesses to scale operations and sustain growth, ensuring agility and resilience in ever-changing market conditions.
Former CEO, Board Member, Angel Investor and Independent Business Leader
A former Senior Advisor at Bain and General Manager at L’Oreal, Hatch Beauty, and Kate Somerville, with experience developing brand strategies and international growth plans. This talent has an established aptitude for brand management, assessing market opportunities, value creation, growth, and strategy related to the cosmetics and personal care, luxury goods, food and beverage, and private equity and venture capital industries.
BTG Placement:
When a PE-backed French perfume brand sought support and strategic expertise to construct a five-year plan, this exceptional executive stepped in quickly to assess the current state of the business and refine brand positioning for a more modernized approach through historical data and KPIs. By doing this, the talent was able to scope future opportunities for the brand and enhance brand depth and category awareness.
Entrepreneur and Business Executive
A former CEO and management consultant with a PhD from the University of California and over 20 years’ experience providing guidance to F100 corporations, private companies, and government entities. This leader is adept with business and management consulting, process improvement, growth and planning, joint ventures, operational streamlining, profitability, and more.
BTG Placement:
A restaurant brand was selling off a sub-brand and needed to develop a robust growth plan for its remaining fast casual chain. The talent’s ability to solve complex problems and find innovative, cost-effective solutions allowed them to step in quickly and pull together information to help the restaurant group determine how to grow beyond the regional market ahead of a significant deadline.
Healthcare Consultant, Author, and Digital, Data, and AI Leader
A former cardiologist, McKinsey consultant, and founder and CEO of a digital health company. This healthcare and life science leader specializes in market assessment and strategy, digital technologies, drug development and commercialization, real world data and analytics, and artificial intelligence.
BTG Placements:
- Industry thought leader to lead internal training session on AI
- Clinical digital strategy and technology market landscape
In the first example, a large pharma company sought support assessing digital efforts and creating a digital technology investment roadmap to maximize asset potential. This deeply knowledgeable healthcare consultant outlined a five-year roadmap highlighting the best opportunities to integrate digital technologies that would improve clinical development and enhance adoption, with a business case for each featuring required investments, timelines, and plans for implementation.
In the latter, the talent provided a full assessment of the digital health investments and initiatives to date compared against organizational objectives and industry best practices. The five-month project concluded with the consultant team delivering recommendations for several options along with a cost/benefit analysis and high-level implementation plan for each.
Subject matter experts (SMEs)
BTG’s subject matter experts (SMEs) are distinguished by their deep domain knowledge and specialized skills. Drawing upon years of experience in their respective fields, they offer unparalleled insights and technical expertise to tackle specific business challenges. Whether it’s regulatory compliance, IT systems, or market analytics, our SMEs provide the critical knowledge necessary to make informed decisions, innovate, and maintain a competitive edge.
What that looks like today: as digital transformation is top of mind across the board and leaders seek to prioritize data-driven decision-making, BTG’s clients rely on our 10,700+ talent with today’s most in-demand digital skills, including data science, AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics. This on-demand solution is of particular interest for those struggling to keep up with rapid technological advancements and near-constant change who want to expand bandwidth to stay competitive and grow.
Professor and Internationally Renowned Scientist and Entrepreneur
An award-winning scholar and entrepreneur with a PhD from MIT in artificial intelligence, deep experience in technical and strategic consulting across several key industries, over fifteen years of technical and strategic consulting experience in former roles such as a director of data science at S&P Global and as a strategic consultant with BCG. This talent is the lead inventor on multiple US patents, wrote a widely consumed book on health informatics, and has authored over 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers.
BTG Placements:
The CIO of a global insurance company needed a consultant who could leverage data, lead cross-functional teams, and utilize AI and machine learning to conduct a proof-of-concept for these data initiatives. This leader effectively supported the buildout of a data science capability within the business and identified opportunities for growth through data science methodologies.
In the latter case, an even more specialized situation, a multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation sought to validate its Long COVID model, generalize an AI model, and establish disease definition workflows to other disease types. The talent also developed a tool to map features from literature to features in Optum and generalized the algorithm and modeling framework for prediction to create data-driven disease definitions while providing advice and insights on best practices and strategies for conducting and translating technical work to be used by a variety of audiences.
Speaker, Thought Leader, and Innovation Consultant
A new markets specialist with experience finding whitespace opportunities and assessing markets, building business plans, creating market entry and adjacency strategy, developing new models, and building corporate innovation units and capabilities to support their endeavors.
BTG Placements:
- AI thought leader to assess market opportunities and support growth strategy efforts in tech
- Developing an innovation plan for a fast-growing mattress company
When an intelligence technology company sought to better understand the emerging world of AI (specifically as it pertains to exploring and taking advantage of recent AI developments within a manufacturing environment), this consultant evaluated the customer base and built recommendations for the top emerging areas in AI by industry vertical and furthered the client’s knowledge base on the latest developments and opportunities.
In the second case, over the course of three months, the talent was able to work collaboratively to audit capabilities and analyze gaps, prioritize initiatives, define new organizational units, establish metrics, provide an overarching change management plan, and, finally, sequence the rollout of a key innovation initiative.
Inspired by these success stories? Let’s find your perfect-fit talent
With a network as vast as ours, these examples of Business Talent Group’s typical talent serve as a starting point to showcase the breadth and depth of our capabilities. For a more exhaustive overview of how we can support your unique problem, priority, pain point, or project, reach out today to schedule a quick conversation about your needs.
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