Debbie Lovich is a Managing Director & Senior Partner in the Boston office of Boston Consulting Group and coleads the global Leadership and Talent Enablement Center (LTEC). The LTEC combines BCG’s understanding of client's goals, organization, and culture with deep expertise in delivering business results and insights into how to develop world class leaders. 

As the Americas LTEC lead, Debbie works with her clients to build leader capabilities at all levels, from the C-suite down to front line managers. Her work includes:

  • Defining overall leadership and talent strategy to build the leaders and talent required to deliver business results
  • Designing and delivering accelerated leadership development programs to build required capabilities
  • Refining leadership and talent systems to reinforce and maintain desired behaviors 

Debbie has worked on a broad range of issues for her clients, including sales force effectiveness, product, customer segmentation, and business strategy development and execution. In addition, she has extensive experience in postmerger integration across a variety of industries. The focus of Debbie's current practice is on driving business results for her clients through building the capabilities of their leaders and talent, and ensuring they have the talent systems in place to drive long-term impact. 
Debbie also led the development and rollout of BCG's global PTO (predictability, teaming, open communication) program to improve BCG's culture and work-life balance. Debbie built and grew the program, leading an internal team that grew to almost 40 full-time consultants dedicated to the global rollout of this program. Today, PTO is a key factor in BCG's consistent ranking as one of the top companies to work for by Fortune. 

Debbie has spent 20 years at BCG in a variety of roles, including head of consulting and administrative staff for the Boston office and member of the BCG Executive Committee.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Leadership enablement
  • Culture and change management
  • Talent management
  • Digital enablement
  • Postmerger integration

EDUCATION

  • MBA, Harvard Business School
  • BS, economics, summa cum laude, Barnard College, Columbia University

Publications and Videos

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The How-To of Hybrid Work

A systematic approach to postpandemic ways of working can capture the upsides of these models while mitigating the risks.
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The CEO Innovation Agenda

Leadership engagement drives innovation outperformance. C-suites are concentrating on five key areas.
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Embracing the Human Side of the Bionic Insurer

Six steps can help insurers build a robust balance of technology and human enablers to ensure short-, medium-, and long-term success.
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Smart Work – The Future of Work Post COVID-19

Our survey of over 1,500 employees and 200 employers in Central Europe shed light on how a company or a leader could gain competitive advantage and prosper via Smart Work in the post-COVID era.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Still Matter in a Pandemic

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Still Matter in a Pandemic

The current crisis may seem like an existential threat that supersedes all other objectives. But building a more inclusive workforce isn’t a distraction—it’s a critical part of the solution.
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Work Will Never Be the Same—Savvy Business Leaders Are Adapting to Change That’s Already Here

The COVID-19 crisis has opened a rare window of opportunity for companies to reinvent how they serve their customers and support their employees.
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Transforming Beyond the Crisis with Head, Heart, and Hands

In the heat of the pandemic, leaders instinctively made people their priority. As they move forward to transform, how do companies keep employees front and center?
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Hybrid Work Is the New Remote Work

Leaders should be managing remote working conditions amid the uncertainty of today and prepare for and optimize the hybrid working models of tomorrow.
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What 12,000 Employees Have to Say About the Future of Remote Work

Learn how your company can hold onto the valuable productivity gains made during the pandemic.
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It’s Go Time for Digital Transformation

People support their companies’ efforts to work in new ways, but many feel the transition could happen even faster.
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Remote Work Works—Where Do We Go from Here?

Assessing which roles are best suited to remote, onsite, or hybrid working models will help establish a long-term ambition for the future of work.
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Own Your Digital Transformation with Build-Operate-Transfer

This approach helps organizations overcome the challenges associated with the speed of change.
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