People Consulting for Peak Organizational Performance

Your people are your most valuable asset. Work with Toptal’s people consultants to equip them with a world-class organizational design and change management framework that ensures agile and sustainable performance.

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Team Leader

Featured Full Team of People Consultants

Reid Quade

Organizational Strategy & Design Expert

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 to transform their organizations for maximum impact.

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Management Experience

14+ Years

Marita Castro

Management Consultant

Marita is a senior executive with 13+ years of experience in human resources and operations. She has led change management projects, impacting businesses in the financial, retail, manufacturing, and automotive sectors, and performed recruitment, selection, salary analysis, career path development, and work environment examination. Marita holds a bachelor's degree in services administration, an international MBA, and postgraduate studies in human management.

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Management Experience

13+ Years

Francine Baroni Fernandes

Change Management Expert

Francine is a passionate professional with 7+ years of experience as a change management consultant. Her work has supported huge multinational companies to achieve new or improve business results through technology and organizational development. Francine focuses on assisting clients with their transformation projects and programs and bringing a change management experience.

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Management Experience

7+ Years

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OUR SERVICES

People Consulting

Build a more responsive, agile, and innovative workforce that is future-ready in the face of increasing market changes. Toptal’s people consultants have a proven track record in world-class organizational design and change management to help empower your people and organization for agile and sustainable performance.

CUSTOMIZED SOLUTIONS

People Consulting Solutions That Drive Impact

Toptal delivers leading people 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.

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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

Business Strategy Consultant

Transformation Consultant

Change Management Expert

Lean-Agile coach

Business Transformation Consultant

Agile Coach

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+

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

Rick Ferrone

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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Michael Mihai Diaconescu

Verified Expert in Project Management

27+ Years

of Experience

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.

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Rich Adams

Verified Expert in Management Consulting

26+ Years

of Experience

Change Management Expert

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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Morné Wiggins

Verified Expert in Project Management

24+ Years

of Experience

Lean-Agile coach

Morné is an experienced leader and enterprise Lean-Agile coach. He has an outstanding track record of leading organizational transformation projects at Fortune 500, 200, and 50 companies. Morné also has extensive experience working in cross-cultural environments from the US, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

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Nuno Anjo e Silva

Verified Expert in Management Consulting

31+ Years

of Experience

Business Transformation Consultant

Nuno has worked for more than 31 years in consumer packaged goods at Unilever and B2B at the Navigator Company. In 2020, he started working as an independent consultant, often managing McKinsey and Eurogroup transformation teams or doing freelance work. With his skills and expertise, Nuno will be a great addition to any team.

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Alan David Walker

Verified Expert in Project Management

34+ Years

of Experience

Agile Coach

Alan Walker is an international insurance digital transformation strategist and implementer, currently based in the US. He has helped some of the world's largest insurers to figure out how to respond to new technologies and changing customer demands—to the benefit of both their customers and themselves. Alan has delivered in multiple roles as a program director, change director, program manager, project manager, and scrum master.

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On-demand Talent and Teams

30,000+ vetted professionals, ready to deploy individually or in teams.

Business Transformation Consultant

Change Management Consultant

Strategy Consultant

Growth Strategy Expert

Reestructuring Consultant

Business Transformation Consultant

Business Consultant

Agile Coach

Management Consulting Expert

Verified Expert in Management Consulting

12+ Years

of Experience

Business Transformation Consultant

Aishwarya is an SPJIMR and Cornell exchange MBA graduate in finance with 12+ years of experience in strategy, business planning, and financial services. She has collaboratively built an early-stage startup from scratch, worked with industry leaders like Deloitte, and is adept in financial modeling, asset optimization, and business transformations. Aishwarya appreciates the opportunity to work remotely with passionate entrepreneurs and management teams to unlock growth in their organizations.

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Verified Expert in Management Consulting

20+ Years

of Experience

Change Management 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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Verified Expert in Management Consulting

11+ Years

of Experience

Strategy Consultant

Dave is a lead strategy and execution expert with a solid track record advising clients in B2C retail, CPG, pet, and consumer-focused PE industries through a combination of strategy, commercial ops, and interim executive roles. He spent nearly a decade consulting at McKinsey and Monitor Deloitte. Dave led McKinsey's service line focused on driving B2C top-line growth transformations and, most recently, was an executive of a pet supplement startup, leading sales and business development.

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Verified Expert in Management Consulting

28+ Years

of Experience

Growth Strategy Expert

Neel is a finance leader and change agent with 28+ years of experience and a track record of impact in Fortune 50 companies. He has driven transformations to the tune of $250 million, EBITDA uplift of $100 million+, and sustainable change by managing mandates in multinationals, SMEs, and startups. Neel is adept at navigating across countries, regions, and cultures, and he brings an entrepreneurial and creative mindset, drive, and passion to design and execute win-win solutions for his clients.

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Verified Expert in Management Consulting

18+ Years

of Experience

Reestructuring Consultant

John is a highly commercial, entrepreneurial leader who speaks six languages. His proudest achievement was founding his own travel technology startup, CultureMee, which won global awards in business and leisure travel. He is also proud to have led a Europe-wide, cross-functional supply chain project, which drove a €40 million reduction in working capital in CRH Plc, one of the largest construction companies in the world.

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Verified Expert in Management Consulting

28+ Years

of Experience

Business Transformation Consultant

Desmond is a change and transformation leader experienced across a range of industries. For more than 28 years, he's architected and guided change initiatives for corporations, governments, higher education, and nonprofits. This work involves processes and technologies, but at the core, people are those who determine project success or failure. Desmond brings field-proven methods and tools to help senior leadership, program directors, and project teams achieve success.

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Verified Expert in Management Consulting

13+ Years

of Experience

Business 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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Verified Expert in Project Management

6+ Years

of Experience

Agile Coach

Kamil is an agile project manager and scrum master with a robust business analysis and change management background. He has extensive experience leading teams and implementing Agile scaling practices at international companies, including BAE Systems, an FTSE100 company and the largest defense contractor in Europe. Kamil is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, PMP, and PMI-ACP.

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Verified Expert in Management Consulting

16+ Years

of Experience

Management Consulting Expert

Francesco has 16+ years of experience in finance, consulting, business management, and sustainability. Throughout these years, he has worked on more than 20 projects as a consultant at Bain & Company and launched Uber operations in Turin, Italy. Lately, he has founded Tondo, an organization spreading circular economy concepts, and Tondo lab, a company driving the implementation of clean and circular innovations. Francesco is passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship.

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WHY ORGANIZATIONS CHOOSE US

Toptal in Action

Discover the cutting-edge benefits our clients enjoy globally from the Toptal network.

Toptal's people consultants enable a Fortune 100 client to create a world-class product organization.

Challenge: A global financial services company faced a significant organizational effectiveness challenge. The combination of making a series of acquisitions and an outdated organizational design was inhibiting growth and increasing internal inefficiencies. The client’s pain points included suboptimal product delivery, misalignment to customer needs, culture conflict, role redundancies, and organizational capability and capacity gaps.

Impact: Efficiencies gained by implementing the new model will drive up to 35% efficiency gains and improve employee engagement.

Toptal helped us get to a better outcome, faster than anyone else could have. Their talent brought the right expertise for the job, without the overhead and costs that a traditional consultancy would bring.

Executive Managing Director, Global Operations

Global Financial Services Company

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.

Microsoft — Newsweek's Most Reliable Companies in America 2026 ranking. Toptal is ranked #11, the highest-ranked professional services firm.

IBM — Newsweek's Most Reliable Companies in America 2026 ranking. Toptal is ranked #11, the highest-ranked professional services firm.

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Methodology for the Rankings

How likely the respondent is to recommend the selected company to others.

Measures the convenience of interaction with the company and efficiency of processes.

Measures the company’s cost-effectiveness and quality relative to price.

Measures whether the company consistently meets or exceeds expectations in quality and timeliness of deliverables.

Measures the company’s ability to consistently fulfill commitments and maintain customer trust.

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Collaboration that works

How to Work with Toptal for Your People Consulting Needs

Toptal matches you directly with global consulting leaders from our network in hours—not weeks or months.

Talk to a People Consulting Lead

A leader from our team will work with you to understand your goals, business needs, and team dynamics.

Get the Perfect Solution

From full end-to-end delivery to team augmentation—choose the best model for your business and project needs.

The Right Fit, Every Time

Work with Toptal’s People Consulting team on a trial basis (pay only if satisfied), ensuring that your needs are ultimately met.

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Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead

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OUR THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

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Andy Deighton

Verified Expert in Project Management

Andy is an Agile expert and Professional Scrum Master who has introduced and implemented Agile practices at Lloyds Bank, National Grid, and others. A former Java web developer for BMW, Andy brings his deep understanding of software development teams to his work as a coach for both startups and multinational companies.

Expertise

Agile Development Agile Coaching Project Management Consulting

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