Michael Shanahan, formerly the leader of The Boston Consulting Group's Insurance practice in North America, is currently a Senior Advisor to the practice.

Michael joined BCG in 2002, and he has worked with leading organizations around the world and across all functions of the value chain. He has especially deep expertise in organizational work, partnering with clients on transformation, restructuring, postmerger integration, change management, leadership development, and strategy.

Prior to BCG, Michael was a long time partner at Arthur D. Little, the global management consulting firm.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Insurance
  • Financial services
  • Large-scale transformation
  • Organizational design
  • Corporate Functions
  • Postmerger integration
  • Leadership development
  • Change management

EDUCATION

  • BA, honors, University of Cambridge

Publications and Videos

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Why Transformation Needs a Second Chapter

Many corporate-transformation efforts fail to deliver lasting competitive advantage. BCG has identified the factors that lead to successful transformations—and the common traps that characterize failures.
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How ING Bank Took Change to Heart

When ING Bank set out to merge its two separate banking units, it got the results it sought by sticking to Change Delta principles.
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Changing Change Management: A Blueprint That Takes Hold

Organizations can successfully manage change—and make sure the changes stick. BCG’s Change Delta offers a proven approach.
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Adaptive Leadership: A Critical Capability for the Public Sector

Adaptive leadership will help the public sector face rising levels of accountability and growing pressure to offer increasingly complex services and to adapt to new technologies.
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Technology-Enabled Reorganization

Reorganizations are critical but also notoriously difficult to implement. BCG’s software tool brings greater transparency, accuracy, and efficiency to an unwieldy process.
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