The Strategy Podcast
FIRMSconsulting hosts some of the world’s most popular business strategy podcast channels — with more than 14 million downloads, more than 28,000 subscribers, and an archive of conversations with business leaders, authors, and operators on strategy, leadership, communication, and the emerging technologies reshaping how companies work.
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The 6,500+ in-depth strategy training episodes live on StrategyTraining.com — our subscription video platform. The podcasts on this page are the free public channels; the training library is where the full curriculum sits.
Our podcasts routinely rank in the top-5 worldwide for careers, and often #1 in many countries like India, Singapore, etc.
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Strategy Skills, the flagship channel:
Our Guests
Our guests are business leaders across industries — strategy practitioners, authors, professors, operators, and executives — in conversation on leadership, strategy, communication, and emerging technologies. A few recent examples:
McKinsey Senior Partner and core leader of the Corporate Finance Practice.
Ex-BCG & McKinsey Senior Partner, founded McKinsey’s Marketing Function, was a close friend of Marvin Bower, and leads numerous programs on FIRMSconsulting.
Ex-McKinsey Senior Partner and the Worldwide Strategy Practice Co-Leader, and the CEO Transitions Practice Leader, and leads numerous programs on FIRMSconsulting.
McKinsey Senior Partner and Global Organizational Practice Leader.
Bain Senior Partner and the current Global Operating Model Practice Leader.
Bain Senior Partner and a leader in the firm’s Customer Strategy & Marketing practice.
McKinsey Senior Partner and global leader of the communications function and Digital B2C practice.
McKinsey Senior Partner and leader on Organizational Health.
Ex-Bain senior-partner, former HBR senior editor and worked closely with Michael Porter.
Featured shows
Competitive Strategy with Kevin P. Coyne
44 episodes plus 13 Q&As on the strategy mechanics that work at Fortune 500 scale, hosted by Kevin P. Coyne.
How to Solve Big Problems
The structured approach senior leaders use to crack open the kind of problem that doesn’t fit a framework.
How to Be Successful, Influential, and Make an Impact
What senior leadership really requires — the unwritten layer beyond performance.
How to Become a McKinsey Partner
The mechanics of the partner-track that nobody inside top firms writes down.
The Bill Matassoni Show
The marketing of strategy itself — how leading firms build and defend their brands.
Strategy Skills Podcast
The flagship show. Deep conversations with strategy authors, business leaders, and operators across industries on how strategic thinking actually gets done.
As featured by Ivey Business School
Kristina Safarova, MBA ’12
In her role as CEO at FIRMSconsulting.com, Kristina Safarova oversees two successful podcasts that harness the power of critical thinking, creativity, and storytelling to help listeners solve some of the world’s toughest problems.
The Case Interviews & Management Consulting podcast was launched in 2011 and now boasts over 350 episodes. This was followed in 2015 by The Strategy Skills podcast, which has more than 80.
“We are listened to in more than 150 countries and routinely rank in the Top 10 for careers podcasts,” says Safarova. “We have had more than 3.5 million downloads.”
The podcasts are a key way to promote the company’s strategy training membership services, and to reach listeners unable to join the one-on-one coaching and paid online membership programs.
“We stick to just two topics: case interviews and strategy. There is so much to cover.” Listeners appreciate the unscripted nature of the podcasts, which feature in-depth discussions about strategy engagements and the management consulting industry with global leaders in the field. “Our audience wants to learn in an entertaining and engaging format. It’s about authenticity and offering content that does not exist anywhere else.”
The Podcast Boom
Meet two Ivey grads producing podcasts — and here’s why they do it.
Cover-featured by Ivey Business School’s alumni magazine for building one of the most-listened-to strategy podcast catalogues in the world.
Podcast channels
Strategy Skills Podcast Channel
Includes our new program, Monday Morning 8am, where we distill the insights from the noise. In addition, we interview business leaders across industries on strategy, leadership, communication, and emerging technologies, teach strategy thinking, and document one strategy study in great detail — developing the corporate strategy and transformation program for a multi-billion dollar energy giant.
Building a Consulting Firm Podcast Channel
The best-practices and advanced strategies to grow a consulting firm/office, plan, generate sales, write proposals, negotiate contracts, develop marketing content and more.
Featured episodes
A few clips from recent conversations on the show, exclusive to FIRMSconsulting.
Are you willing to live by your values?
Kevin P. Coyne, FIRMSconsulting program host and former Worldwide Co-Leader of the Strategy Practice at McKinsey, discusses the importance of values.
Kevin P. Coyne is a FIRMSconsulting mentor, co-founder of the Coyne Partnership, and a former director and co-leader of both McKinsey’s Worldwide Strategy and CEO transitions practices. Kevin has co-written 6 Harvard Business Review articles, 12 McKinsey Quarterly articles, 2 recommended business books and many cited articles across influential business publications.
Trailer to The Bill Matassoni Show, Season 1
Bill Matassoni discusses an entirely new approach to solving complex problems. Bill was a McKinsey senior partner for almost 20 years, focused on building McKinsey’s reputation and protecting its brand. He worked closely with Tom Peters, Jon Katzenbach, Kenichi Ohmae, John Sawhill, John Stucky, John Hagel, and at BCG with George Stalk, Michael Silverstein, Philip Evans, Yves Morieux, Hal Sirkin and others.
What listeners say
Not just for aspiring consultants
“This podcast is great for anyone that wants to think more effectively, solve problems, engage others in a professional manner, and especially for those who work at any level.”
One of the best episodes ever
“So precise description of implementation!”
Where to listen
The full FIRMSconsulting podcast library is also distributed across major podcast directories so you can subscribe in whatever app you already use.
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