CIL Stories

CIL prides itself on bringing together entrepreneurial, curious and kind individuals to create exceptional work. In this series of interviews, we sit down with these CILers to discover their stories and discuss how they navigate their careers.

Knowing your strengths

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Leah Daniel, a Director in CIL’s Consumer practice, talks about her journey from joining CIL straight after university to where she is now and her experience of being a woman in consulting.

Balancing your time

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Ben Park, talks to us about starting his career in consulting and how he balances his busy work-life with playing semi-professional hockey in the Premier League.

Navigating your career at CIL

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For Liam McGuinness a career as a strategy consultant was not one he had considered growing up. However, working in his family businesses across the South West of the UK and learning about how they work from his entrepreneurial father ignited a spark. Here, he talks to us about how he came across CIL and the advice he would give others starting on the journey.

Making Partner as a single parent

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Tabitha Elwes joined CIL in 2017 to set up and develop its Media practice, having run her own firm for five years. Here, she joins us to talk about juggling single parenthood with being a Partner and how she achieves that ever important work/life balance.

Creating a work-life balance

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Alex Marshall discusses how he manages to keep the balance between his family life and his work.

The importance of social mobility

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Jon Whiteman, CIL’s Managing Partner and head of our Industrial Products and Services practice, discusses the importance of championing social mobility in consulting and how CIL aims to improve it.

Why we strive for diversity

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Ronak Joshi discusses his experience as a Senior Analyst at CIL, how we approach DEI and our partnership with upReach.

Building a more inclusive company

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Naomi Curtis joins us to talk about how CIL approach DEI, the initiatives we’re working on and why we think an employee-driven approach is the way forward.