The 2018 Rising Stars of the Profession: Jordan Sternlieb

Early in Jordan Sternlieb's career, he worked with someone who stressed the importance of always doing your best work. While that sounds simple—he says he's realized that it is a good guidepost for just about every situation he faces, personally and professionally.

Today, Sternlieb is a director in West Monroe Partners' Financial Services practice, based in Los Angeles. He has more than 10 years of business and technology consulting experience across key industry disciplines, including commercial banking, treasury management and bank operations.

He says he's particularly proud of the opportunity he's had to launch and develop the firm's Los Angeles office. He joined West Monroe in 2012 as the second employee in Southern California, and at that point, he was working remotely without a physical office until the firm opened one in 2014.

"Since then, we've seen it grow to nearly 50 employees with a strong presence and client list. It was like starting up a new business—it took a lot of hard work that went well beyond my professional consulting focus on the financial services industry," he says. "Looking back, it's amazing how far we have come."

His many professional highlights include serving as account director for a top-20 bank that is a multi-million-dollar annual account and leading the treasury management customer work stream for one of the largest and most successful bank mergers in U.S. history.

There are a number of factors that have played roles in his success, he says, but the biggest, by far, is being around and working with great people, both at West Monroe and at clients. "Having great teammates and great support at all levels of the organization motivates me to come to the office every day and produce my best work," he says.