Best Consulting Firms for Diversity
Vault's Diversity ranking is based on how well firms perform in five individual diversity categories as well as an overall ranking.

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2025 Overall Diversity
Aminad Consulting
Aminad is a boutique management consulting firm dedicated to generating realistic and implementable change. The firm works with federal agencies, with a specific focus on the Department of Defense. Aminad (pronounced ah-min-odd) is a portmanteau that that firm says “represents determination, generosity, and kindness.”
View ProfileSCORE 9.733
2024 Ranking
#2

Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is the second largest consulting firm by revenue and consistently ranks high in our top consulting firms. The firm’s diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise to organizations, helping them to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact. Purpose-driven, the firm strives to drive lasting impact for its employees, clients, and society. "You will be challenged... and rewarded," say insiders.
View ProfileSCORE 9.604
2024 Ranking
#5

ghSMART
Boards, CEOs and investors seek ghSMART’s advice for their most high-stake leadership challenges. And often, ghSMART’s clients see them as the most influential professional relationships they have. Those who aspire to be trusted advisors who have a background in management consulting, private equity, and organizational psychology should take a closer look at ghSMART.
View ProfileSCORE 9.487
2024 Ranking
#1

Iberia Advisory
Iberia Advisory helps federal agencies deliver superior outcomes for the American public. Based in Washington, DC, this consultancy specializes in financial and strategic management, ranging from audit support and remediation to internal controls and enterprise risk management, from budget planning and execution to data strategy and governance.
View ProfileSCORE 9.458
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked

Putnam
Beyond Putnam's commitment and expertise to revolutionizing life sciences consulting is a determination to “bring out the best in each other.” Putnam’s commitment to development makes it a great choice for anybody looking to acquire practical knowledge of the industry by training alongside an enthusiastic team of like-minded professionals while delivering exceptional value to clients.
View ProfileSCORE 9.417
2024 Ranking
#4

Bain & Company
Arguably the most employee-focused of the Big 3 strategy players, Bain is a name that will open doors for the rest of your career. That’s if you’re interested in leaving, of course: The firm invests a lot of time and energy in training and development. Couple that with a glittering client roster and top-of-the-market compensation, and it’s easy to make a case for staying at Bain for the long term.
View ProfileSCORE 9.414
2024 Ranking
#3

Clarkston Consulting
Clarkston Consulting has focused on the consumer products, retail, and life sciences industries for over 30 years. Reflecting this targeted approach, the firm has never pursued aggressive expansion, instead applying energy to the careful cultivation of its client base.
View ProfileSCORE 9.243
2024 Ranking
#7

Kenway Consulting
Kenway Consulting strives to bring value to clients through tailored business and technology solutions. In keeping with their vision "to transform business by doing what is right," their stated focus is helping businesses achieve their objectives through the enablement/enhancement of process and technology ... by providing clients the right skills at the right time in the right volume for the right duration, resulting in the best possible solution for the lowest cost. The "doing what is right" vision permeates the company culture; the firm is often included at the top of the ranks of the best companies for work-life balance.
View ProfileSCORE 8.839
2024 Ranking
#12

BPM LLP
BPM’s Advisory practice group provides services related to business transformation, managed services, and technology solutions.
View ProfileSCORE 8.745
2024 Ranking
#6

Stax
Stax is a global strategy consulting firm specializing in commercial due diligence, value creation, and exit planning for private equity firms, PE-backed companies, hedge funds, and investment banks across a broad range of industries. The firm partners with clients to provide data-driven, actionable insights designed to drive growth, enhance profits, increase value, and make better investment decisions.
View ProfileSCORE 8.680
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked

OC&C Strategy Consultants
OC&C Strategy Consultants is an international consulting firm that advises the senior management of major multinational corporations and leading national companies. OC&C clients include private equity firms, infrastructure funds, growth capital firms, family offices, and corporate acquirers. The firm works with these organizations through acquisitions, portfolio supports, and exits.
View ProfileSCORE 8.677
2024 Ranking
#11
SciVida
SciVida is a boutique management consulting firm that focuses exclusively on life sciences. Headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC, the company combines deep industry and functional area knowledge with specialized expertise in market assessment, analytics, and strategy development to provide life science organizations services across brand and portfolio strategy, pricing and market access strategy, business development and medical affairs.
View ProfileSCORE 8.666
2024 Ranking
#9

Ignyte Group
Tech-savvy jobseekers who live on the cutting edge of digital transformation will spark to Ignyte Group: a fast-paced, DC-based boutique that specializes in the automation and modernization of business processes. At just around 100 employees, Ignyte maintains a close-knit and entrepreneurial culture akin to what you’d find in Silicon Valley. The firm lives and breathes its core values of innovation, cross-functional collaboration, ownership, and creativity, all in service of its niche focus on merging traditional management consulting with professional branding.
View ProfileSCORE 8.642
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked

Roland Berger
As the first consultancy native to Europe to expand internationally, Roland Berger’s identity is deeply entwined with the concept of global community. The firm operates on the idea that businesses must focus on the long play: sustainable economic, environmental, and social change on a global scale instead. Jobseekers who lead with heart and future-forward priorities should seek out a firm working actively to bring meaning to the consulting industry.
View ProfileSCORE 8.621
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked

Censeo Consulting Group
A boutique in the government contracting space, Censeo is known as a work-life friendly company, making it the perfect choice for anyone looking for flexibility in their schedule while not compromising on the quality of assignments they get to work on. The firm offers strong on-the-job training as well as a close-knit, collegial environment.
View ProfileSCORE 8.620
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked

LeapPoint, an OPMG Company
LeapPoint, an Omnicom Precision Marketing Group (OPMG) company, is a digital advisory firm to watch in the years ahead. Providing clients with transformational support to streamline, upgrade, and organize processes and marketing technology, LeapPoint's enterprise-level innovation and cross-functional expertise covers a range of industries, including financial services, healthcare and life sciences, retail, travel and hospitality, media and entertainment, higher education, government, and more.
View ProfileSCORE 8.603
2024 Ranking
#8

Potomac Point Group
Potomac Point Group is a boutique management consulting firm. Since 2011, the firm has worked closely together with its clients to help them innovate, tackle change, and make lasting enhancements to their businesses. Some of Potomac Point Group’s clients have included large and small banks, hedge funds, and government-sponsored enterprises in the single-family and multifamily mortgage industry.
View ProfileSCORE 8.567
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked

Chartis
Chartis is a comprehensive healthcare advisory firm dedicated to helping clients create a healthcare system that works better for everyone. The firm works across the healthcare continuum serving more than 900 clients annually. In 2024, it received a majority investment from private equity firm Blackstone.
View ProfileSCORE 8.551
2024 Ranking
#21

Eagle Hill Consulting
Eagle Hill is a firm that prides itself on “unconventional consulting”: an outside-the-box, “living lab” approach to client engagement. Innovative ideas and creative solutions are tested and validated within the firm before being brought to market, which puts people at the heart of the process and measures the real impact of business strategies before they are proposed to clients. The result is a working environment that encourages boldness and experimentation.
View ProfileSCORE 8.533
2024 Ranking
#19

Epsilon Economics and Epsilon Life Sciences
Epsilon Economics and Life Sciences provides specialist economics, litigation and governance services, with a strong focus on the life sciences sector. The firm currently operates two separate but connected consulting units in economics and life sciences.
View ProfileSCORE 8.518
2024 Ranking
#16

Spaulding Ridge
Spaulding Ridge is an IT consultancy that advises businesses on cloud infrastructure—specifically, it creates infrastructure for the offices of business’ CFOs and CROs. Spaulding Ridge works with companies to find cloud solutions that work for them and is able to integrate many of the most commonly used business applications (Anaplan, Salesforce, and DocuSign, to name a few) into its products. The company is based in Chicago, Illinois, and its founder and CEO is Jay Laabs.
View ProfileSCORE 8.482
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
ScottMadden, Inc.
ScottMadden is a generalist boutique with deep expertise in the Energy and Corporate and Shared Services sectors. The result is a combination of strategic focus and a diversified approach to consulting across a range of capabilities and services—perfect for jobseekers searching for the unique benefits of working at a smaller firm while still leveraging a wide array of skillsets and experiences. If the prospect of working ‘on the ground’ with your clients excites you, then ScottMadden might be a fit.
View ProfileSCORE 8.446
2024 Ranking
#13

Kaiser Associates
Kaiser Associates is a global growth consulting firm that translates original insights into strategy for ambitious organizations around the world. Since its founding in 1981, the firm has grown substantially while continuing to stay true to its founding ethos of “fact-based” strategy. The firm’s global client portfolio, collegial community, and wide-ranging opportunities make Kaiser Associates a great place to work.
View ProfileSCORE 8.413
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked

Kearney
Kearney—one of the original global management consulting firms—has long specialized in operations and supports clients through large transformations. The firm works with more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500, as well as governmental and nonprofit organizations. A solidly midsize firm with a strong international reputation, Kearney is poised to offer consultants the best of both worlds: the flexibility and opportunities for exposure of a boutique supported by the infrastructure of a much larger firm. The result is a great balance of collaboration and independence—the benefits of scale with the ability to individualize.
View ProfileSCORE 8.408
2024 Ranking
#25

Advancy
Advancy offers a range of consulting services, from corporate strategy to private equity. With its team of more than 280 consultants, the firm has an entrepreneurial spirit to go along with its services, offering its clients the jumpstart and guidance their businesses need.
View ProfileSCORE 8.395
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
