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Mitch Kornman

Managing PartnerNew Zealand

Leader in McKinsey’s Growth, Marketing & Sales Practice, and office manager for McKinsey New Zealand

Mitch is passionate about empowering organizations in New Zealand and around the world to achieve their full potential.

With over 15 years of experience, Mitch has developed deep expertise in growth strategy, mergers, and acquisitions—and executing large-scale transformations. He excels in driving substantial growth for clients, particularly within consumer-focused sectors, such as agriculture, financial services, and consumer goods.

Some examples of his recent work include:

  • guiding a prominent New Zealand energy gentailer through its growth transformation, accelerating the organization’s decarbonization goals
  • leading the turnaround strategy for a large agriculture company’s consumer division, executing a comprehensive transformation across the value chain, including manufacturing, category management, innovation, and sales
  • helping various retail banks with strategy development, addressing digital attackers, channel strategies (including brokers), banking ecosystems, and branch optimization
  • leading operating model transformations in banking to transition product, marketing, and technology functions into cross-functional agile tribe/squad structures while designing and integrating the complete agile ecosystem
  • supporting the end-to-end customer journey transformation for a major bank, addressing governance, culture, and technology impacts

Before joining McKinsey in 2016, Mitch spent nine years at another consulting firm, serving clients in New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

PUBLISHED WORK

Five insights from the 2024 New Zealand CFO Forum: Navigating new frontiers,” McKinsey & Company, October 2024

Brokering growth in the mortgage market,” McKinsey & Company, November 2023

Survey: New Zealand consumer sentiment during the coronavirus crisis,” McKinsey & Company, June 2020

EDUCATION

University of Melbourne
MBA

The University of Auckland
BCom, accounting and finance