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Consulting Experience

Grow key analytical skills. Serve a real client. Get MBB mentorship. Join the next Strategy Sprint.

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A 1-week Virtual Consulting Project

There’s no substitute for real-world experience, especially in today’s increasingly competitive job market. Get mentorship from an MBB consultant, build core consulting skills, and serve an actual client on a 1-week engagement.

It’s best-in-class training and real-world consulting experience you won’t find anywhere else. Our team will even help you integrate the experience into your resume after project week! Plus, you’ll receive a Certificate of Completion upon the program’s conclusion.

Apply here to be considered. There are 18 total spots available. *If you are a Black Belt or former Strategy Sprinter, you do not need to apply.

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An experience to launch your consulting career

MC Strategy Sprint

For accepted applicants, a 1-week consulting project experience:
  • April 21 - May 21: 5 hours of self-paced training & homework
  • May 6: Virtual Case Competition
  • May 22-26: Virtual consulting engagement led by MBB consultant
  • Certificate of Completion (shareable on LinkedIn)
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$1200

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Don't just learn from the pros, work alongside them

An internship experience should grow skills, push you on real experience, and stretch you past what you thought were your limits. Strategy Sprint does just that – you get dedicated pre-project training from former MBB consultants, and then are staffed on an actual consulting engagement.

Your project leader is an MC coach and former MBB consultant, and you are one in a small team of analysts, each owning your own workstream – meaning your inputs will make or break the project. There’s nothing like the thrill of arriving at cutting-edge insights for a client that is hungry for answers.

Training

What do you need to know to be an all-star consultant? We'll take you through a self-paced, video-based curriculum to help you build core consulting skills like analysis, presentation, and more. Plan to carve out 6 hours over 2 weeks to complete the modules and do the homework.

Experience

During project week, we launch you into the real world. You are staffed on a consulting engagement for an incredible organization facing a real strategic challenge with measurable impact. For example, last year, an internship team created over $2M of impact for a web-based business based in California.

Mentorship

You get plenty of rope to run your own workstream, but we don't leave you alone to sink or swim. Each consulting team is managed by an ex-MBB consultant. You'll get five 1:1 meetings with your mentor (M-F of project week) and 4 group check-ins to ensure you are on the right track. Your mentor will also join your final presentation on Friday!

The project was a great challenge!! Definitely stretched my abilities in terms of knowledge and understanding, and increased my appreciation for consulting! I will be exploring areas of consulting that will leverage my experience and expand my career options!

Training

We kick off with multiple modules of video-based, interactive training that is focused on core consulting skills like Accelerated Excel, Pyramid Principle, Data Insights, and Executive Presentations. We pair that with interactive homework exercises that will ensure that what you learn actually "sticks."

Whether you are a student or mid-career switcher, you'll gain the skills needed to succeed as a consultant.

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Experience

Many organizations offer consulting classes, but when firms look at your resume, they value actual experience more.

You can't claim to have built consulting skills without, well, actually consulting. You'll run fast, so you'll make mistakes and your analysis might be messy, but you'll get feedback along the way. At the end of the week, you'll offer real-life implementable suggestions for a client that sorely needs it. Now that's the kind of experience that looks great on a resume and sounds great in an interview (heck, we'll even help you add the experience to your CV!).

I'm Ready

Mentorship

Experience coupled with mentorship is the most powerful form of learning. That's why your small team is led by a former McKinsey, BCG, or Bain consultant. You'll have a 1:1 check-in with that consultant each day of the engagement.

Learn firsthand how an MBB consultant approaches data, manages a client, and drives a project forward.

It's Time to Start

Loved the experience. I learned so much about approaching business issues and using/analyzing data effectively to come up with solutions and recommendations. There's no way this would have been possible without the extensive support from my coach.

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An experience to launch your consulting career

MC Strategy Sprint

For accepted applicants, a 1-week consulting project experience:
  • April 21 - May 21: 5 hours of self-paced training & homework
  • May 6: Virtual Case Competition
  • May 22-26: Virtual consulting engagement led by MBB consultant
  • Certificate of Completion (shareable on LinkedIn)
Apply here (do not purchase before being accepted) Learn More
$1200

4 Spots Remaining

 Add to cart

MC Strategy Sprint - Sponsor a Team

Secure spots for a team of 6 from your school or alma mater Learn More
$5970 Add to cart

FAQs

Great question! See below for an overview.

  • April/May 2023: Self-paced pre-work (10 hours)
    • Video-based lessons exclusive to Strategy Sprint focused on teaching core consulting skills: top-down communication, Excel, storyboarding, and more
    • Homework associated with each training module so you can apply what you’re learning
  • May 6, 2023: Virtual case competition (6 hours)
    • Continue to apply what you learned in a project setting
    • Meet your case team and MBB case team leader (CTL)
    • Client reveal!
  • May 8-19, 2023: Preparation (5 hours)
    • Work with your team and CTL to develop a hypothesis and develop a data request for the client
  • May 22-26, 2023: Project week (40 hours)
    • Kickoff Meeting on Monday AM
    • Daily 1:1 check-ins with your mentor
    • Daily team meetings
    • Mid-week Partner check-in
    • Final Presentation: Friday AM