Consulting firms with the best employer branding globally

Employers that distinguish themselves as a great workplace are able to attract and hire the best talent. For consulting firms anywhere in the world, this is a crucial differentiator as the quality of the services offered is for a large part determined by the skills and capabilities of talent. Meet the consulting firms with the best employer branding. 

Building a strong employer brand requires a close interplay between the marketing, brand management, human resource and recruitment teams of consulting firms. With a unique employer branding and value proposition, consultancies can not only attract candidates the best candidates for their firm, but also improve their retention of employees. 

There are several large employer review platforms that track the employer branding of consulting firms, and globally there are several more surveys and rankings that measure how appealing brands are according to consultants themselves and candidates. Consultancy.org keeps track of thousands of data points per year, and based on our unique database, here are the consulting firms with the best employer branding in the world.

Consulting firms regarded as a great place to work:

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KPMG
KPMG international operates as a network of member firms offering audit, tax and advisory services. We work closely with our clients, helping them to mitigate risks and grasp opportunities. Member fi...
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Deloitte
“Deloitte” is the brand under which tens of thousands of dedicated professionals in independent firms throughout the world collaborate to provide audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk managemen...
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EY
At EY, we are committed to building a better working world — with increased trust and confidence in business, sustainable growth, development of talent in all its forms, and greater collaboration. We...
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Bain & Company
Bain & Company is one of the world's leading management consulting firms. We work with top executives to help them make better decisions, convert those decisions to actions, and deliver the sustainab...
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Alvarez & Marsal
Companies, investors and government entities around the world turn to Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) for leadership, action and results. Privately held since its founding in 1983, A&M is a leading global pro...
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Boston Consulting Group
The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and the world's leading advisor on business strategy. We partner with clients from the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors i...
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McKinsey & Company
McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm. We are the trusted advisor to the world's leading businesses, governments, and institutions. We strive for world-shaping client impact We wo...
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PA Consulting
PA Consulting is an internationally leading management consultancy with a large variety of services in areas such as Strategy, Digital Business Design, Agile, Business Intelligence & Analytics and IT...
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L.E.K. Consulting
We’re L.E.K. Consulting, a global strategy consultancy working with business leaders to seize competitive advantage and amplify growth. Our insights are catalysts that reshape the trajectory of our c...
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Mazars
Mazars specializes in accountancy, tax advice and consultancy. Based on knowledge in these fields, we work for (international) companies, organizations in the public sector, SME entrepreneurs and wea...
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BearingPoint
BearingPoint is an independent management and technology consultancy with European roots and a global reach. The company operates in three business units: Consulting, Products, and Capital. Consultin...
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Capco
Capco is a global management consultancy with a focus in financial services including banking and payments, capital markets, and wealth and asset management, plus a dedicated energy division. We comb...
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Elixirr
The Challenger Consultancy Elixirr is a global award-winning challenger consultancy. With roots in strategy consulting, their capabilities are constantly evolving as they grow, ranging from business ...
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Korn Ferry
We are a global consulting firm in over 50 countries with more that 7.500 people. We help organizations get their strategy, structure, and talent aligned. What does that mean? We help companies desig...
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North Highland
North Highland is a global management consulting firm known for helping clients solve their most complex challenges related to customer experience, performance improvement, technology and digital, an...
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Cordence Worldwide
Cordence Worldwide is a major global management consulting partnership made up of independent Member Firms, each of which is a leader in the regions it serves. By maintaining their independence, each...
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OC&C Strategy Consultants
OC&C Strategy Consultants is a global strategy boutique. We have more than 30 years of experience at unpicking the most complex business challenges with simple, uncommon sense. We are strategy specia...
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Maine Pointe
Maine Pointe is a global supply chain and operations consulting firm trusted by many chief executives and private equity firms to drive compelling economic returns for their companies. This is achiev...
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Nous Group
Nous Group is an international management consultancy with over 700 people working across Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada. Our broad consulting capability spans strateg...
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Delta Capita
Delta Capita is a leading global financial services provider of managed services, technology solutions and consulting. Delta Capita has a unique combination of experience in Financial Services and te...
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Synergy Group
Founded in 1999, Synergy has grown to become one of Canberra’s leading professional services firms. We are government specialists delivering a truly collaborative approach to navigate important chall...
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Valcon
Valcon is the premium operations consulting firm in Europe, and that means that we are the champions of connecting strategy and operations and making it work. We call this The HOW. Valcon’s HOW is ou...
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dss+
With over 900 professionals in 40 countries, we are a world-class operations management consulting firm with a purpose of saving lives and creating a sustainable future. From our solid legacy as DuPo...
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Analysys Mason
Global leaders in TMT management consulting Analysys Mason is the world's leading management consultancy focused on telecoms, media and technology (TMT). We give clarity and confidence in answering o...
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LanciaConsult
At LanciaConsult, we work with our clients to help them get ahead in competitive environments through robust programme delivery, business consulting and innovative technology platform implementations...
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Nextcontinent
Our “citizens” are independent key players in their respective markets, sharing a unique entrepreneurial vision. Trust is the key word they share with their clients through this worldwide citizenship...
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R/GA
Founded in 1977, the agency has been a pioneer at the intersection of technology, design, and marketing with work spanning web, mobile, social, retail, product innovation, brand development and busin...
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CIL Management Consultants
CIL is an international management consultancy with offices in the US and Europe. We help businesses grow, build value and invest wisely. We are rigorous in our approach, confident in our conclusions...
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Comatch
What would it be like if every consultant could work on their own terms and if every client could find the perfect consultant without searching in a matter of hours and to a fair price? It’s the ques...
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Point B
Point B is a consulting company dedicated to helping organizations with critical initiatives in the areas of customer engagement, growth investments, workforce experience and operations excellence. O...
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Sia Partners
Sia Partners is an international management consulting firm focused on corporate and operational strategy, with expertise in all aspects of the value chain and its supporting functions. Sia Partners ...
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SparkOptimus
SparkOptimus is the leading digital strategy consultant of Europe with a 100% focus on helping organisations to realise new technology driven growth. At SparkOptimus we have a passion for the possibi...
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NMS Consulting
NMS Consulting is a global management consulting firm providing strategic counsel to private and public organizations and the individuals who lead them. The combination of our diverse skills, global ...
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Pollen Consulting Group
Creating great things from small humble beginnings defines the ethos of Pollen Consulting Group. We are fast becoming the go to people for value chain transformations, bottom-line performance and fos...
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Projective
In 2006, Projective's founders, Stefan Dierckx and Filip Bosschaert, felt there was a gap in the financial services project management landscape. There have always been a host of traditional consulta...
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UMS Group
UMS is a boutique consultancy firm specialized in technical and commercial asset management. Since 1989, we are helping our customers in power generation, industry, gas & electricity transmission and...
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Q5
Q5 is an international award-winning consulting firm that specialises in "organisational change". At our heart, 'Q5ers' help business leaders develop organisational strategy then implement it -- thro...
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CCG Catalyst
CCG Catalyst Consulting is a global management consulting firm specialized across financial services focused on banking and fintech. The financial services industry is in a disruptive stage. The velo...
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Curzon Consulting
We are an award-winning management consultancy who deliver tangible and enduring results for our clients. The Financial Times and Statista named Curzon Consulting as one of the UK’s Leading Managemen...
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Emerton
Emerton is one of the few global, high-standard strategy consulting firms. Our team is mobilized to bring speed to a few clients in each of the sectors we cover, both in their strategic decision-maki...
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Kepler
Four Levers of Consulting Excellence KEPLER is an international business management consulting firm. Founded in 2007, the firm is built around four areas of excellence – Innovation, Procurement, Supp...
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Coeus Consulting
Coeus Consulting, a Wavestone company, is an independent award-winning IT advisory that empowers technology, business and procurement leaders to deliver strategic change. We help leadership teams del...
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Dogma Alares
Management Consulting is dying! Long live next-generation consultants. Fortunes are gained and lost faster than ever. Consumers are adapting new products, services and technologies fast. The best sol...
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Genioo
Genioo is an innovative consulting firm, working with ambitious leaders to help them bring their vision to life. The challenge for any leader is bridging the gap between thinking and doing. We work a...
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Horváth
Horváth & Partners are independent, international management consultants with over 900 highly qualified employees. Founded in 1981 and headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, we have offices at location...
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INNOPAY
We are a consultancy firm specialised in digital transactions. We help companies anywhere in the world to harness the full potential of the digital transactions era. We do this by delivering strategy...
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Marktlink
We are Marktlink – an involved M&A specialist with an independent, discreet, and no-nonsense working method. Since 1996, we support entrepreneurs in company acquisitions and mergers, using our in-dep...
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Anderson MacGyver
Anderson MacGyver achieves business value through smarter use of IT and information. No longer 'IT and the business', but together one vision and strategy towards the end customer. This translates in...
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BlinkLane Consulting
BlinkLane is a leading consultancy organization, focused on organizational transformation in a digital era. We strive for a significant and meaningful impact on organizations and society. “Blink is a...
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First Consulting
First Consulting is a rapidly growing, no-nonsense consultancy organisation with a passion for operational processes. We were founded in the Netherlands in 2006, and expanded to the UK in 2017. Our g...
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GEP
GEP® delivers transformative supply chain solutions that help global enterprises become more agile and resilient, operate more efficiently and effectively, gain competitive advantage, boost profitabi...
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Zanders
We are an independent firm with a track record of innovation and success across the total spectrum of treasury, risk and finance. Our Business Values are the ingrained principles of the company and o...
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Alfa Consulting
Alfa Consulting is a global consulting firm, renowned for the design of pragmatic strategies and the improvement of the execution capabilities of large companies. Our group, Cordence Worldwide has mo...
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ARCH
A pragmatic approach has been our trademark since 20 years. Our consultancy assignments are only truly completed when we have guided our clients to the preconceived result. To them, we act as a ‘trus...
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B2E Consulting
B2E is an innovative consulting company, created in 2004, with a flawless record of delivering projects with and for our clients. B2E Consulting is different because we have developed a “gig economy”...
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BJSS
Your strategic technology partner BJSS is the leading technology and engineering consultancy for business. Trusted by our clients, we collaborate to deliver complex, innovative technology, engineerin...
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Bonfiglioli Consulting
Since 1973, Bonfiglioli Consulting, an Italian management consulting company, has been working side by side with organizations to support their growth and success in global markets. We support our cl...
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Comatch
What would it be like if every consultant could work on their own terms and if every client could find the perfect consultant without searching in a matter of hours and to a fair price? It’s the ques...
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Digital Power
Digital Power is a team of specialists with a passion for data. We help organizations, large and small, to work effectively with data. Our people specialize in Data Analytics, Technical Web Analytics...
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Eurogroup Consulting France
Eurogroup Consulting is a Management and Strategy firm. It was created in 1982 and is of European essence. The firm is known and recognised for its interventions across all sectors, in the public and...
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Eurogroup Consulting Italy
Eurogroup Consulting is a project founded in France in the ’80s, with the ambition to become the first management consulting group with a European breather and culture. In July 2007, Improvance, toge...
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