33. Liz Hilton Segel
Managing Partner of North America, McKinsey & Co.
2018 REVENUE $10 billion
(worldwide, for all of McKinsey)
NYC IMPACT Oversees 1,900 city employees; trustee of the Central Park Conservancy and the Conference Board
Liz Hilton Segel, 48, was on maternity leave when she was elected partner at McKinsey & Co., and worked part time for five years so she could pick up her son after school and spend more hours with her young daughter.
To create those opportunities for others, two years ago she helped launch the consulting firm’s dual-career initiative, which provides concierge services, backup child care and even training for executive assistants to coordinate schedules with an employee’s spouse.
Before she was promoted to her current job last year, Hilton Segel led the firm’s marketing and sales practices in the Americas and also headed the New York office, McKinsey’s largest and one that generates a sizable percentage of its annual revenue. She also serves on the company’s shareholder council, the equivalent of its board of directors.
The native New Yorker joined McKinsey in 1992 after graduating from Harvard University, where in addition to majoring in economics she served as business manager for the Harvard Crimson student newspaper.
Correction, June 18, 2019: McKinsey & Co.'s worldwide 2018 revenue and local employee count were slightly underreported in an earlier version of this article.