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Future-proof your business with Toptal’s Digital Strategy Consulting. Our consultants deliver tailored digital strategies that maximize technology potential, promote operational efficiency, and facilitate exceptional customer experiences.
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35,000+
Total Vetted Professionals
30,000+
Toptal Total Projects Delivered
85,000+
Years in Business
15+
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Our Services
Toptal Digital Strategy Consulting Services
Transform your business with Toptal’s Digital Strategy Consulting services. Drive your digital transformation journey, enhance customer experiences, and prioritize operational efficiency for sustainable growth with our consulting services.
Digital Technology Advisory Services
Drive innovation with specialized guidance on emerging technologies, optimizing your tech stack for growth.
Customer Experience Consulting
Design exceptional digital experiences that boost customer engagement, loyalty, and satisfaction, advancing your business objectives.
Digital Platform Consulting
Optimize digital platforms to meet business goals through seamless integration and long-term capability enhancements.
Digital Customer Insights
Gain insight into customer behavior online to drive personalization, boost retention, and enhance digital experiences.
Advanced Decision Intelligence (ADI)
Empower your strategy with AI-driven analytics, forecasting models, and automation tools that enhance decision-making.
Digital Marketing Strategies
Craft effective digital marketing strategies that expand your reach and resonate with your target audience, driving leads and conversions.
Digital Transformation Strategy Consulting
Shape a future-ready business with a tailored digital strategy that aligns people, processes, and platforms.
Business Process Optimization
Streamline operations with digital-first strategies that leverage automation, data insights, and modern workflows.
AI and Intelligent Automation
Use AI and intelligent automation to streamline operations, increase productivity, and stay competitive in a fast-changing market.
Market Trends and Competitive Analysis
Track evolving market dynamics and competitor strategies so you can adapt your roadmap for long-term growth.
Digital Investment Strategy
Build a digital investment roadmap that prioritizes impact, optimizes resources, and supports long-term, sustainable growth.
Personalization Strategy and Implementation
Deliver personalized digital experiences at scale using behavioral data, segmentation, and automation to boost engagement.
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How We Deliver Digital Strategy Consulting Services
Our digital strategy consulting team, with experience at leading companies, will work with you to develop and deploy tailored solutions that meet your business needs and unique industry demands, providing you with sustainable results and long-term success.
1
Discover
A leader from our team works with you to understand your business challenges, pain points, and strategic goals to uncover new opportunities and identify the options to reach your objectives.
2
Define
Toptal leaders collaborate with your team to define your specific goals and service needs, evaluating multiple approaches and aligning requirements with your strategic objectives to define the best solution.
3
Develop
Once your service is defined and you have your talent or team on board, they will create your unique project timeline, process, and initial proposals, whether you’re enhancing customer journeys or formulating a digital investment strategy.
4
Deploy
Toptal will get to work, tracking quality assurance, handling project management, and maintaining the delivery schedule.
Matthew McNaghten 
Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead
Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice LeadAs Toptal’s Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead, Matt focuses on helping clients address critical issues and drive value across their enterprises. He brings 35 years of senior-level consulting experience, having held leadership roles at Cognizant, Accenture, IBM, and Deloitte.As Toptal’s Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead, Matt focuses on helping clients address critical issues and drive value across their enterprises. He brings 35 years of senior-level consulting experience, having held leadership roles at Cognizant, Accenture, IBM, and Deloitte.
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Digital Strategy Consulting Services That Deliver Value
Toptal delivers leading digital strategy consulting services through its diverse talent network and flexible delivery models. We implement the right skills at each project phase, blending expertise from various roles for seamless execution.
- End-to-End Delivery by Toptal
- On-demand Talent and Teams
End-to-End Delivery by Toptal
Comprehensive project delivery, tailored to your specific requirements.
Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead
Delivery Manager
Digital Strategy Consultant
Digital Experience Consultant
Digital Strategy Consultant
Innovation Consultant
Business Transformation Consultant
Strategy Consultant
Matthew McNaghten
Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead
As Toptal’s Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead, Matt focuses on helping clients address critical issues and drive value across their enterprises. He brings 35 years of senior-level consulting experience, having held leadership roles at Cognizant, Accenture, IBM, and Deloitte.
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Experience
35+ Years
Rachael Karaffa
Delivery Manager
Rachael serves as a Delivery Manager at Toptal with a focus on leading diverse global teams in developing innovative solutions for our clients. She works across multiple disciplines, including technology, marketing, and management consulting. Rachael specializes in managing people and client relationships, process optimization, and driving teams toward optimal business outcomes.
Previously Managed Client
Experience
9+ Years
Serhiy P. Bulat
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
20+ Years
of Experience
Digital Strategy Consultant
Serhiy is a management consultant with more than 20 years of experience managing large organizations and working with international companies such as P&G, Deloitte, Lafarge, Alexander Proudfoot, and USAID. Specializing in world-class management practices, Lean Six Sigma systems implementation, complex operations optimization, performance and profit enhancement, cost reduction, troubleshooting, crisis and change management, Serhiy is willing to share his experience to help businesses grow.
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Michael Ang
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
28+ Years
of Experience
Digital Experience Consultant
An MIT MBA graduate, Michael served large corporations at Bain and helped build new businesses at firms backed by top-tier VCs (Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield, Softbank). He's led pricing work at a Silicon Valley firm acquired for $185 million and joined Toptal to work on challenging business problems. His work has led to the discovery of multimillion-dollar business optimization opportunities and contributed to a client’s multi-fold revenue increase.
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Arvind Kumar
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
10+ Years
of Experience
Digital Strategy Consultant
Arvind is a consultant with more than 10 years of experience, including at KPMG Global Strategy Group, Goldman Sachs, and EY across the Middle East, America, India, and Europe. He has delivered 30+ projects, including growth strategies and business plans; M&A and financial analyses; pitch decks; and go-to-market, branding, and digital strategies. Arvind has a demonstrated track record in planning and delivering complex transformations ranging from $2 million to $1 billion. He holds an MBA from HEC Paris.
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Fabian Schvartzman
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
13+ Years
of Experience
Innovation Consultant
Fabian is a Stanford MBA with 13+ years of experience in business strategy, business development, and leadership. He led two healthtech startups and closed deals with leading pharma companies, built a business development unit at AeroFarms that partnered with Fortune 500 companies, such as Cargill, AB InBev, and Roche; saved Intel $400 million in its run rate through an out-of-the-box solution; and raised money from prominent VCs.
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Rich Adams
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
26+ Years
of Experience
Business Transformation Consultant
Rich is an award-winning leader specializing in answering his clients' business growth, operations, and change management questions with innovative techniques. He has over 26 years of experience in business development, operations, management, and market strategy, working with private equity and Fortune 100 companies like Kroger, Cigna, and Blue Cross Blue Shield. Lately, Rich has founded DART, an organization focusing on innovative digital health solutions.
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Barbara Close
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
36+ Years
of Experience
Strategy Consultant
As a former KPMG and PwC consultant and Fortune 1000 executive, Barbara has collaborated with CXOs in diverse industries for 36+ years. She has diversified industry expertise across consumer and industrial products and services, manufacturing, logistics, e-commerce, retail, and technology, which gives her a multi-dimensional approach to problem-solving. Functionally, her work has spanned core operations and front- and back-office processes. Barbara is a mechanical engineer and Kellogg MBA.
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On-demand Talent and Teams
20,000+ vetted experts, ready to deploy individually or in teams.
Digital Experience Consultant
Business Strategy Consultant
Business Transformation Consultant
Growth Strategy Consultant
Digital Transformation Consultant
Process Optimization Expert
Digital Strategy Consultant
Strategy Consultant
Technology Strategy Consultant
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
14+ Years
of Experience
Digital Experience Consultant
Gustavo is an expert in management consulting with extensive experience working with digital native tech companies and retail, energy, and telecom corporations. He combines strong analytical, abstract thinking and problem-solving skills with a remarkable capacity to connect strategic, product, and commercial perspectives.
Previously at
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
30+ Years
of Experience
Business Strategy Consultant
Rick is a business strategy, financial planning, and operations expert with over 30 years of experience as a chief operating and strategy officer and a Big 5 management consultant. He has led three company turnarounds, including one for a $500 million multinational firm, growing revenue by 28% and increasing profitability by 21% within two years. Leveraging his experience with companies of all sizes and across industries, Rick is willing to start delivering value and results in new projects.
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Verified Expert in Project Management
27+ Years
of Experience
Business Transformation Consultant
Mihai is a seasoned program and project manager and transformation consultant with extensive experience in digital transformation, process optimization, automation, software development, and technology integration. He strategically navigates change and manages senior relationships within tier 1 banks, global blue-chip companies, and startups. He restructures troubled projects, solves problems, and devises operating models and Agile methodologies, fostering collaboration and long-term success.
Previously at
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
11+ Years
of Experience
Growth Strategy Consultant
Krittika is an experienced strategy professional who has executed numerous deals for Fortune Global 500 corporations while working at KPMG. Adept at conducting commercial due diligence, go-to-market and growth strategies, benchmarking, and competitor analysis, she is also skilled in data analytics. Krittika is enthusiastic about taking on new challenges and providing her clients with exceptional consulting services.
Previously at
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
14+ Years
of Experience
Digital Transformation Consultant
Reid partners with executives to quickly uncover new value by transforming their operating models and organizations. In his decade of experience at two of the largest international consulting firms, he has worked with CEOs, CFOs, and CHROs on the operating model and organizational assessments, organizational redesigns, shared services transitions, and digital transformations. Reid has helped executives identify over $350 million in cost savings and over $600 million in revenue uplift.
Previously at
Verified Expert in Product Management
19+ Years
of Experience
Process Optimization Expert
Kristine is a product director with more than 19 years of experience. She garnered high ratings on the App Store and increased the NPS score by over 20% for a major car rental company. That app became the #1 car rental app of 2019. She has successfully launched or overhauled over ten products, both B2B and B2C. Her previous nine years of expertise includes project management, sourcing, operations, and research. Kristine excels at leading diverse teams through challenging builds and pivots.
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Verified Expert in Management Consulting
11+ Years
of Experience
Digital Strategy Consultant
Fabian is a seasoned consultant who has been building growth strategies for SaaS, FMCG, and service companies, as well as for his own ventures for 11+ years. His fields of expertise include market research, financial analysis, omnichannel marketing, and outbound and inbound sales strategy. Fabian combines his full-stack programming skills with his entrepreneurial acumen to drive results as he enjoys helping businesses plan, analyze, and expand their operations.
Previously at
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
13+ Years
of Experience
Strategy Consultant
David is a seasoned professional with over a decade-long record of helping clients deliver exceptional results, including advising Facebook's initial public offering (IPO) and acquisitions of WhatsApp, Instagram, and Oculus. His background includes working at McKinsey & Company as their consumer and retail practices lead and now as a strategy lead at the largest food company in North America. David joined Toptal to continue advising clients to solve some of the most challenging problems.
Previously at
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
20+ Years
of Experience
Technology Strategy Consultant
Akshay is an entrepreneur, executive, and management consultant focused on solving key business problems. As a technology strategy executive, he has worked with Fortune 500 organizations on data platforms, AI, machine learning, and launching data products. Akshay has a proven track record in bringing products to market and managing technical, operational, and financial risks.
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Our Talent Has Worked With Top Companies
Having previously worked with these leading global companies, our talent brings valuable insights and expertise to deliver world-class outcomes.
WHY ORGANIZATIONS CHOOSE US
Toptal in Action
Discover the cutting-edge benefits our clients enjoy with the global Toptal network.
CSR Limited’s digital transformation results in boosted sales performance and operational savings.
Challenge: Faced with increasing competition and escalating customer needs, CSR Limited, a global leader in the construction supply industry, was looking to offer more.
Solution: Toptal and CSR created CSR Connect, an application with a range of solutions. It digitizes ordering and payment processes for customers, manages accounting, and enables delivery tracking. The app uses JavaScript at its core, and the back-end platform is built on Amazon Web Services.
Impact: CSR boosted sales with enhanced customer experience and saved accountants’ time by automating monthly tasks.
Toptal helped us achieve our goals by bringing the resources to bear with very short notice, and very high-quality resources to boot.
Elmar Platzer
Digital Transformation Leader, CSR Australia
Toptal Ranked #1 Most Reliable Professional Services Company in America
Newsweek and Statista’s rankings were based on an independent survey of more than 2,400 decision-makers at Fortune 500s.
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