The Global Leaders in Consulting: Leslie Raimondo

As the Deputy Chief Transformation Officer, she helped stand up the very first Chief Transformation Office as part of a multi-year transformation journey at Booz Allen called Vision 2020. "Across 400 locations and 20 countries, this dedicated and proactive investment in our firm and talent has already put large-scale strategies into place that enable Booz Allen to be a bolder, more adaptable, and more data-driven firm," she says. "As global environments and markets change around us, we are strategically positioned as an enterprise to continuously transform to remain relevant and resilient."

Her areas of expertise include human capital, strategic workforce planning and analysis, change management, organizational assessment and design, labor and employee relations. Leslie is a lead advisor to the firm's human capital and learning community, which provides a forum for the firm's professionals to share information, capabilities, and methodologies. 

"When I look back at my 29-year consulting career so far, I'm most proud of how I've been able to build high-performing teams and how I have played a role at Booz Allen to build the next generation of talent at the company," Raimondo says. "While client achievements have been pivotal for me, the opportunities I have been given to shape our future leaders is what will enable meaningful and successful client work to keep moving forward." 

When people talk about their success factors, Raimondo says she often hears it relate back to a particular passion or skillset. For her, a different theme consistently comes to mind when thinking about her successes—resiliency. "Since joining Booz Allen in 1989, I have time and again been stretched and asked to work outside my comfort zone," she says. "The biggest factor to my success has been the ability to tap into this resilience during times when I have been pushed to transform and try something completely new—from serving clients to transforming the way our business operates."

And Raimondo is about to embark on a brand new challenge with an upcoming move to Abu Dhabi in early 2019, where she'll serve as a leader in the Middle East and North Africa offices.

"As a consultant, you have the benefit of having diverse experiences as project change, diverse clients, and most pivotal for me—diverse team members internally, each of which teaches you something new," she says. "This ever-changing set of experiences, and therefore growth opportunities, is what has kept me in the consulting profession and at Booz Allen."

Q&A:  What does being recognized as a Global Leader in Consulting mean to you? Your firm? Your clients?

Raimondo: This is incredibly meaningful because of where we are as a firm—we're no longer just operating globally at Booz Allen, but we're a global company today that's incorporating perspectives, best practices, and cultures around the world. Personally, it's an honor to be one of the drivers behind that, and I am humbled by the daily opportunity to engage with our talent and shape how clients experience Booz Allen.