The 2025 Best Firms to Work For: Whiteshield

CONSULTING SERVICE LINES: AI Economics, strategy, education, trade, labor markets, risk, operations, HR and more

We are a global advisory firm known for our ability to respond to global challenges rapidly and incisively. By integrating public policy and AI economics expertise with cutting-edge tools and technology, our team of leading international experts engages decision-makers to tackle society’s most significant challenges. We are recognized for our rapid decision support, innovative solutions, data science algorithms and deep policy knowledge. Our specialty is in “connecting the dots” between policy, business, and enhancing the lives of citizens.

The Whiteshield Group provides three types of services via its Whiteshield technology arms: Whiteshield X, its advisory arm Whiteshield Advisory, and the Whiteshield Academy Quantum Education. Our technology services include four main SaaS products delivered in collaboration with Google. The advisory business provides a full range of public policy and AI economics services, including 24 algorithms, and the Academy offers more than 30 courses tailored to policymakers and companies alike. The group delivers these services in combination to drive value by creating new jobs in different countries while promoting socioeconomic development.

CMAG: What characteristics and elements would you attribute to your firm’s inclusion as a Best Firm to Work For?

Whiteshield is a firm that prides itself on the responsibility and ownership given to its employees. At Whiteshield, everyone is trusted and expected to make a significant contribution from early on in their careers. They can gain real experience in dealing directly with high-level clients and learning from having real input to our impactful projects. We are always growing and support our employees in pursuing new innovative ideas and business lines wherever possible. This gives them a real opportunity to pursue their passions and solve client problems through their own entrepreneurial approaches.

CMAG: Are there any specific programs or initiatives that contributed to you being included as a Best Firm?

Whiteshield has been relentlessly focused in recent years in improving both its employee journey and its L&D focus to ensure that we offer best-in-class experience for our employees. In recent years, we have supported employees taking long sabbaticals to travel, or to undertake educational courses of their choice in top universities across the board. Furthermore, we have an in-depth training program that ensures from day 1 employees have the support they need to learn new skills and thrive within the firm.

CMAG: In describing your firm, what would you say sets it apart from other consulting firms?

Innovation. At Whiteshield we try and solve today’s problems with tomorrow’s approaches. We constantly try to look beyond traditional methodologies and solutions and identify what could really be game changing solutions for our clients. This has led us to rapidly spearhead the integration of AI-driven economic advisory along with our ever-increasing product solutions for clients – with offerings ranging from calculating GDP from satellite imagery to building bespoke AI-use cases for government agencies. At Whiteshield, our clients trust us to provide a different, modern perspective, and that truly sets us apart in the market.

CMAG: Where your workforce is concerned, what would you say your priorities look like for the upcoming year and beyond?

We have three core priorities for our workforce going into 2026. Firstly, we want to continue attracting the best talent in the world to support our business growth. Secondly, we want to diversify our talent mix, ensuring we are bringing in a range of skills from consulting, tech, AI, product and beyond. Lastly, we want to keep our focus on ensuring our internal experience and training is best-in-class to ensure our valued employees have the best platform in which to grow and display their skills.

CMAG: What opportunities do you see as the most promising?

Currently, we are seeing the world in the midst of a huge transformation as the impacts of AI become more apparent on governments, businesses and society. How this is managed will transform societal outcomes at every level. This is a major challenge, particularly in the public sector. However it is also an incredible opportunity. Following years of R&D investment and research in the area, Whiteshield is well positioned to support clients in harnessing this opportunity and positioning themselves as leaders for the coming decade.

CMAG: What market forces do you see as the most challenging?

The macro-environment is challenging right now for all consultancies. There has been a general slowdown across the board in consulting expenditure in both the public and private sector. This is a sectorial issue but in reality it reflects a change in priorities that we must adapt to. Clients are moving away from wanting one-size-fits-all solutions and reusable templates. Instead they want long-term trusted advisors that tailor to advice to the clients needs and the dramatically changing global environment. Whiteshield is well placed to compete in this market environment given our brand and relationships are built on long-term trusted engagements with our clients, but also software that we developed that help accelerate transformation like our innovative Job Accelerator in collaboration with Google.

CMAG: What impact do you think Best Firm to Work For honors will have on your employees? The firm overall? Clients?

We hope the honors will inspire pride in both our employees and our clients. For our employees, this award is a reflection of their own excellence. A top workplace is not something that can be imposed top down from executive level. Instead it is the combination of the millions of interactions between colleagues on a day-to-day basis. We have some of the most intelligent consultants in the world, focused on solving interesting problems. Their combined efforts make the experience what it is. For clients, we hope that it makes them proud that they have chosen Whiteshield to support them in facing the challenges of today. We thank them for their trust and engagement in important issues and look forward to the relationship continuing over many more years and awards.