Management Consultant, Boston Consulting Group

>> My name is Chris Gomes [assumed spelling]. I am a management consultant. That very ambiguous term means that I am basically a guidance counselor for CEOs. So my company will come into a client's situation, generally large, Fortune 500 companies or government agencies or large nonprofits any time they have a problem. It could be that their revenues are down, or it could be that they just need a new strategic plan, and we act as an outside perspective on their own business and the business that they're a part of. So we will analyze some of their documents. We will analyze the markets. We will do interviews with people in order to ultimately provide a recommendation back to the client. Like I said, kind of a guidance counselor. For the past six months, I've been working on the five-year strategy plan for an environmental conservation organization in DC. So that's been really fun. We basically came into this organization. We implant ourselves in the organization. So we get a room in their building. We interview their staff. We get to know them. We understand their business. We also conduct interviews with external stakeholders, such as their partners, the people who fund their conservation. The people who receive the conservation dollars to actually do the conservation on the ground and with all of those inputs, we basically then made a recommendation for how they should organization themselves and what markets they should pursue for the next five years.