Best Consulting Firms in Each Practice Area
Consultants across the nation rate the top firms in their practice areas.
Explore Related Ranking Categories
2025 Best Consulting Firms for Environmental Sustainability Consulting
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.
36.89% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#2
McKinsey & Company
McKinsey consultants work in collaborative teams, have opportunities to make meaningful impact, and engage in challenges to stretch their abilities and further their expertise. McKinsey provides a culture that is distinctive and inclusive, focused on a personalized, flexible, dynamic environment that delivers high-performing and sustainable results. The firm is creating conditions for its colleagues to author their own journey and advance based on individual skills and impact.
33.61% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#1
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.
27.87% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#3
Deloitte Consulting LLP
Deloitte is a global provider of audit, tax, risk and financial advisory, and consulting. Services include everything from technology transformation and implementation to corporate strategy; marketing and sales growth solutions (also known as Deloitte Digital); mergers and acquisitions; human capital change management; manufacturing operations including supply chain; financial management; and sustainability, climate, and equity solutions.
17.21% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#4
PwC Consulting Solutions/Strategy&
PwC Consulting Services integrates functional knowledge across the globe to help clients address their most challenging business problems. The firm has the opportunities, mentorship, and technology to help take your career to the next level. Becoming a consultant at PwC will allow you to develop deeper expertise in your area of focus and establish yourself as a leader.
13.32% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#8
EY Consulting Practice NA
Ernst & Young is one of the global Big Four accounting firms. They are best known for providing audit, tax, business risk, technology and security risk services, and human capital services. Through four service lines—assurance, consultancy, strategy, and transactions—they help transform businesses.
12.50% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#5
KPMG LLP (Advisory)
One of the most recognized names in global business, KPMG is a multinational professional services network and one of the Big Four accounting firms. Organized as a network of firms that each bring services to clients, KPMG spans strategy and operations, analytics, business integration, business intelligence, business process management, change management, growth enablement, integrated business planning, organizational design, outsourcing, shared services, talent management, technology enablement, and transformation. On the risk management side, they offer advisory services in financial risk management, forensic, internal audit, risk and compliance, and IT. Mainly, however, they are known for and specialize in auditing, internal audit, accounting, forensic accounting, compliance, corporate recovery, assurance, tax, risk management, and financial advisory services.
12.30% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#7
Accenture
Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve performance and create sustainable value for stakeholders. The company fosters a “culture of cultures,” where its people experience a sense of belonging and can be their best professionally and personally. Creating this inclusive workplace means ensuring people feel comfortable engaging in honest, open dialogue about difficult topics—such as bias and inclusion—without judgment or career limitation.
11.27% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#6
Charles River Associates
A storied name in the consulting industry, Charles River Associates provides specialist economic, financial, and management consulting services. Clients engage CRA for their litigation- and regulatory-related cases, as well as for its strategic advice and problem-solving capabilities.
5.94% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#13
Oliver Wyman
Oliver Wyman is a firm in a hurry at present, rapidly adding headcount through hiring and acquisition to cope with a deluge of work. Consistently recognized throughout the industry as a “Best Place to Work”, the firm promises an “environment where exceptional people can thrive.” A large consultancy whose reach spans five continents, Oliver Wyman strives to provide its people with an entrepreneurial, non-hierarchical culture where talent people work alongside one another on complex, high-visibility client engagements. Go-getters who enjoy early responsibility and a fast-paced, driven environment will do well here.
5.74% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#10
ICF International, Inc.
ICF International is a global consulting and technology services company. The firm provides strategic planning, management, marketing, and analytics products and services to both government organizations and businesses. Consultants who work there are business analysts, policy specialists, technologists, researchers, digital strategists, social scientists, and creatives.
5.53% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#13
L.E.K. Consulting
L.E.K. Consulting is a global management consultancy that advises global companies that are leaders in their industries — including major corporations, private equity firms, and emerging entrepreneurial businesses. Headquartered in Boston, the firm’s reach spans five continents, touching almost every major market around the globe. That—coupled with deep industry expertise across a breadth of clients and capabilities—creates a wealth of “big firm”-like opportunities at a relatively midsize firm that can offer its employees a more personalized experience than some of its larger competitors.
5.33% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#11
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.
4.71% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#16
EY-Parthenon Americas
EY-Parthenon—the strategy consulting arm of professional services giant EY—is one of the largest global strategy consultancies, with more than 700 offices worldwide. By harnessing the infrastructure of its parent organization and its international network of talented professionals, EY-Parthenon offers a near-unparalleled learning experience for jobseekers looking to deepen their expertise while expanding their skillsets.
4.10% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
FTI Consulting, Inc.
FTI Consulting is a global consulting firm that works with organizations facing crises and transformative periods. It primarily helps organizations like multinational corporations, law firms, banks, and private equity firms manage and mitigate financial, legal, operational, political & regulatory, reputational, and transactional risks. The firm has been an advisor in some of the most headline-grabbing moments in history, including the Bernie Madoff investigation, the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, the Bush vs. Gore dispute, the Major League Baseball steroid case, the Ed Sheeran copyright infringement case, and many more.
3.89% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
NERA Economic Consulting
NERA provides economic advice, analysis, expert testimony, and regulatory insight for global clients in North America, Latin America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific. The firm has been advising government authorities and the world’s leading law firms and corporations for over half a century, bringing academic analysis and rigor, objectivity, and real-world industry experience to bear on issues arising from competition, regulation, public policy, strategy, finance, and litigation.
3.89% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#12
Capgemini
Capgemini SE is a multinational consulting company that provides consulting, technology, professional, and outsourcing services. The firm helps companies transform and manage their business through technology—from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms.
3.69% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#9
PA Consulting Group
PA Consulting Group is a consultancy that specializes in strategy, technology, and innovation. PA has clients in both the private and public sector, ranging from startups to national governments. The firm's work spans many industries, including consumer and manufacturing; defense and security; energy and utilities; financial services; public services; healthcare and life sciences; and transport.
3.48% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
Tata Consultancy Services
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is a global provider of IT services, business solutions, and outsourcing. Through its network delivery model, TCS offers services in e-business, application development and maintenance, architecture and technology consulting, engineering, security, infrastructure development and management services. Industries include communications and information technology, engineering, materials, services, energy, consumer products and chemicals.
3.28% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#19
Malk Partners
Malk Partners is an ESG-focused advisor to private market investors and their portfolio companies. Based in La Jolla, CA, the company works with clients on setting and sharing commitments, due diligence, monitoring, reporting and more.
2.87% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
