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In the early part of the 21st century, as the boundaries between international, political, and technological affairs collapsed, the industry known as consulting emerged to play a new and expansive role in what some described as a system of globalization.
The following 25 profiles reveal who were counted among the most influential consultants in early 2005. They were elected by the leaders of 13 leading firms, and while few of the 25 would likely identify themselves as a globalist, their firms were already playing a unique and sizable role in shaping the global economy. Here’s what we learned about them.
(Consultants apprear in alphabetical order):
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Robert Suh - Accenture
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 The knock against Accenture is the same one consulting rivals have thumped out for more than half a decade.
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Sylvester Schieber - Watson Wyatt Worldwide
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 At a time when “thought leadership” flows trippingly off too many tongues too quickly in the consulting profession, Watson Wyatt Worldwide Director of U.S. Benefits Consulting Sylvester Schieber simply rolls his eyes at the term.
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Rodney Rogers - Adjoined Consulting
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 Adjoined Consulting CEO Rodney Rogers launched his firm in 2000 based on the principles of “efficient consulting.” Given how, and where, the former Accenture consultant internalized those principles, “empathetic consulting” seems an equally fitting description of Adjoined’s approach.
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Robert Pryor - Capgemini Energy LP
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 Capgemini CEO Chell Smith foresees a day when utility companies — under pressure to reduce costs — turn to outside providers to manage their back-office processes. In May 2004, Capgemini took a first, dramatic step toward that goal by forming Capgemini Energy LP, a joint venture with TXU Corp. that began when the consulting firm won a 10-year contract to manage back-office operations for the energy giant — the largest business process outsourcing deal in the history of the utility industry.
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Stephen Pratt - Infosys
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 Two years ago, a couple of thoughts struck Stephen Pratt, then a partner with Deloitte Consulting, as he scanned a high-tech client’s office filled with 200 of his consultants pecking away on their laptops: Our consultants are miserable from the standard cross-country commute and hotel existence we subject them to. And, Our bills are making our client miserable.
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Greg Baroni
Neil de Crescenzo
John Drzik
Mark Gottfredson
Gary Holdren
Doug Lattner
Paul Laudicina
Brent Longnecker
Cesare Mainardi
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