I, uh I went to Columbia University for undergrad, and then after that, I went McKinsey and company, which, uh, firm, uh, where I primarily work on a plate he thinks banquet at at Generation A USA, which founded by, uh, at the that. Those provide. I have recently left the McKinsey. Um, I I left a week, Uh, at a lot of that is my that my, um I think more broadly, uh, I wasn't exactly Did you graduate? I knew I was interested in relation. That was closely was also I thought that once they leave, Iraq begins. Uh, and so all of that kind of came together in my junior year. I interned the credit analyst, um, which was interesting, but I felt like I was getting my entire time modeling on doing very narrow and out of this, um, which again I found meaningful. But I felt like I wanted a daughter. Just what I got to go see where. Wait about this when you were it's less in the act and you're not looking. I would penetrating There's much important thing about how does a bag systemically and it will bring up, uh, but make at the UN Financial, Um, as well as outside of the banking I worked World Apart Super PAC company on their data strategy to make sure that they were compliant. That was interesting. I found it was a very cool way being of the neck making. That's how I got to my very particular form of 40. But I think there's a lot of varieties, Uh, I think even for myself getting attacked, Difficult Lord built at, you know, within within at least at least I think bigger, big people. Great hoping no within the third type of permanently definitely indicate the baby. Um, you can and gift around a lot and find a niece that you other you will have a general. It's jump up now. Is that believing?

as a strategy consultant. What you do is provide on support for essentially senior to mid senior level executive decision. Uh, the way that you could think about it a certain degree is when a business decision is being made him to be concrete. For example, um, a project that I that I worked on waas Ah, the financing change of the credit card company where instead of using ah corporate debt to back, you know, the payments on their credit cards, they were considering shifting and becoming a bank in depository institution, and so they needed to understand. Okay, what are gonna be the regulatory implications of becoming a bit? This decision is being made at the executive level. They need some analysis stock, right? This analysis is more of a one time nature. You need to evaluate. Hey, is there gonna be a regulatory risk? You don't need to stand up a whole new department in order to evaluate a one time risk, Which is why we come into evaluated for that. That is the type of project that you're generally going to be on your gonna be stepping in to fill in, uh, deep. Generally time intensive on time constrained analysis to inform a major decision being made by by an executive, either at the top of the firm at the CEO level. Or maybe at, you know, one of the C O minus water to levels. Um, there are exceptions to this, of course, where sometimes you're providing longer troller support on something where the firm just doesn't have the capabilities to do it. We did find ourselves doing this sometimes in the regulatory space where if a firm, if a company was going through the extended prices, we might be there for a little while, just providing advice and oversight. Um, so that's big picture of the type of responsibilities you're doing very tactically. What does this mean? You're doing Excel? Modeling an example analysis, although for a lot of what I did that was less of a focus. But then is something you should expect if you go into consulting, Um, something like a pricing model. If you're examining the new products, uh, something like understanding consumer demographics into that you will do a lot of interviews. Ah, very important. Part of the job is person to person interaction trying to come across organizational layers, and then you make a lot of power point pages on, and you basically make presentations synthesizing information probe. You are Excel analysis from your interviews from, uh, surveys that you may do ah into insights for four for the four for the executive sponsors for the clients. Um, this usually happens on a weekly cadence. Eso. You'll have what we call a steering committee. Usually that's once or twice a week on, and you will present your findings at the end of the week of that, um, weekly work hours. Very uh, I would say generally would be somewhere between 60 anywhere from 55 at the very best to 9100 at the very worst, but it won't be 90 to 100 on a regular week. That's only if you're in a very crisis situation. Really. I think where you could expect to land is about 9 a.m. To 10 p.m. Monday through Friday. Weekends are almost always very respected. Um, some projects it will be easier. I thought projects where I was working 9 to 6 I that projects around was working 7 to 11. Um so it just it varies because as you could understand the the task that the executives give you these things air fast. You have five weeks, and so you just need to be ready for flexibility for travel. You generally fly every week. I would usually wake up early on Monday mornings. Ah, fly into the client side. No. You know, I'd land probably 9 a.m. On. And then I fly back on Thursday and Friday, work out of the office. Um

you know the thing that every consult will tell you that you know, you're you're a powerful person. Ah, our point is here Is that where you live? It's how you learn the the way of telling the story and communicating your message within power Point Obviously use Excel. Ah, two supports of analysis and also just part of the delivery balls. Now, beyond that, um, from a software perspective, it really just depends on the type of work that you're doing. I know people who do code and do stuff in python or her job or whatever. They're usually more on the analytic side of things we have. You know, I'm McKinsey. There's ah, Lower Research Center and Walter in a large amount of analytics support that we have on. Actually, there are, you know, integrated consultants who happen analytics and to them. So I think you can definitely do more advanced analytics and we're serving clients the very cutting edge of that. It's just on my personal experience. So I didn't really use any other particular Softwares, um, frameworks, though I think it is important to understand that I think the common sort of misconception o r. Claim thrown around about consulting. If you just read about it's like, Well, why are they bringing in a bunch of 20 year old kids? Ah, to solve a fundamental business problem. Um, why don't they just do themselves? I mean, And that answer to that is actually, you are a translator. Usually as a business analyst, your problem solving you're trying to adapt frameworks Teoh that exist that have been developed to experience at in an industry to to its client situation. Well, you're almost never or you are correct. It practically all in there. No situation starting from scratch. Uh, so you're leveraging the deep experience of the partners. Ah, and the frameworks, which you know, actually, you know, both are firm, and every other firm has a wide variety of frameworks that exist that you can use to really quickly catch up on an industry. How we think about it. You usually would get on a couple of very quick phone calls with experts in the industry to understand what is the cutting edge thinking on this topic? This type of war designed this type of transformation, this type of product launch. Um, you'll hear, you know, Okay, This is what we've been doing. This is the you know, this is obviously sanitized to make sure that you're not, You know that you're only getting the firms thinking and I p, but it is very formalized. There's very structured process for getting the knowledge readily available. Ah, to to get you going. So I think a lot of a lot of what you do, it's interpret, refine and rebuild frameworks that are applicable to the problem that you were here.