Dalibor Pajic
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
Management Consulting
Reimagine Success Through World-class Management Consulting
Toptal’s flexible, end-to-end management consulting solutions provide unparalleled speed and increased organizational agility. Leverage world-class capabilities from best-in-class management consultants and accelerate growth today.
The C-level talent in the Toptal network has completely exceeded my expectations.
Craig Stein
Chief Revenue Officer
Toptal helped us achieve our goals by bringing the resources to bear within very short notice, and very high quality resources to boot. So it really helped us out of a tight spot when we needed it.
Elmar Platzer
Digital Transformation Leader
Toptal is where we’ve always looked to augment our team with really good resources.
Eric Heisler
Digital Development Leader
The key to unlocking the power of the search market is in leveraging technology and AI. Toptal is our partner in creating that key.
Archie Jones
Managing Partner
Trusted By Thousands of Leading Brands
OUR SERVICES
Management Consulting Capabilities
Toptal’s leading management consulting teams drive businesses to stay on top of change, leap ahead of competition, and exceed customer expectations.
Strategy Consulting
From developing a clear vision to accessing digital opportunities, we work with you to define go-to strategies that move you from vision to value with a competitive edge.
Featured Case Study
Featured Strategy Consulting Articles
Pricing Strategies for Success: A Practical Guide
Financial Distress in a Crisis: You Can’t Predict, You Can Prepare
Jeff Anapolsky
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
What Designing Formula 1 Cars Can Teach You About Corporate Strategy
Isaac Prada y Nogueira
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
Pricing Strategies for Success: A Practical Guide
Dalibor Pajic
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
Financial Distress in a Crisis: You Can’t Predict, You Can Prepare
Jeff Anapolsky
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
What Designing Formula 1 Cars Can Teach You About Corporate Strategy
Isaac Prada y Nogueira
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
People Consulting
Optimize your workforce with Toptal’s People Consulting. From HR strategy to change management and organizational development, we help you build high-performing teams.
Featured Case Study
Featured People Articles
How to Facilitate Change Through Agile Servant-leadership
Alvaro Villena
Verified Expert in Project Management
Making Change Stick: How to Get Change Management Right
Alan David Walker
Verified Expert in Project Management
What Is Agile? A Philosophy That Develops Through Practice
Umar Ali
Verified Expert in Project Management
How to Facilitate Change Through Agile Servant-leadership
Alvaro Villena
Verified Expert in Project Management
Making Change Stick: How to Get Change Management Right
Alan David Walker
Verified Expert in Project Management
What Is Agile? A Philosophy That Develops Through Practice
Umar Ali
Verified Expert in Project Management
Finance Consulting
Toptal’s Finance Consulting supports business leaders in identifying and executing strategic transactions that drive value creation throughout the entire life cycle, from M&A strategy and due diligence to operational readiness and post-merger integration.
Featured Case Study
Featured Finance Consulting Articles
Valuation Drivers to Consider During the M&A Sale Process
Jonathan Wesner, CFA
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
Strategic Financial Leadership: 6 Skills CFOs Need Now
Puneet Sapra
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
IT Integration in Mergers and Acquisitions: Structuring Synergy
John S. Doss
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
Valuation Drivers to Consider During the M&A Sale Process
Jonathan Wesner, CFA
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
Strategic Financial Leadership: 6 Skills CFOs Need Now
Puneet Sapra
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
IT Integration in Mergers and Acquisitions: Structuring Synergy
John S. Doss
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
Operations Consulting
Achieve peak efficiency with Toptal's Operations Consulting. Leverage our expertise in supply chain, sourcing, manufacturing, and ESG to transform your operations and drive innovation.
Featured Case Study
Toptal powers CSR’s digital transformation in supply chain management.
Featured Operations Consulting Articles
Supply Chain Lessons and Opportunities: Learnings From a Crisis
Zachary Elfman
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
5 Key Tips for Smarter Sales and Operations Planning Implementation
Juan Franco
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
Principles of Organizational Design and Optimization: Lessons From The Great Recession
Chris Hearing
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
Supply Chain Lessons and Opportunities: Learnings From a Crisis
Zachary Elfman
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
5 Key Tips for Smarter Sales and Operations Planning Implementation
Juan Franco
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
Principles of Organizational Design and Optimization: Lessons From The Great Recession
Chris Hearing
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
PARTNER WITH MANAGEMENT CONSULTING LEADERS
Meet Toptal’s Management Consulting Leadership Team
Toptal’s Management Consulting leadership team unites deep expertise in business strategy, finance, and people and organizational transformation. With decades of experience delivering solutions for global enterprises, these leaders drive excellence in every engagement—advancing client outcomes through precision, agility, and world-class execution.
Matthew McNaghten
Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead
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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Engagement Models
Flexible Engagement Models to Meet Your Business Needs
From fully managed teams to end-to-end solutions and project-based support, Toptal offers flexible engagement models that align talent and delivery with your business needs, helping you scale efficiently and achieve lasting impact.
Advisory and Consulting
Solve your most complex challenges with tailored strategic advisory. We assess your goals, define the right approach, and connect you with top-tier professionals to help you achieve lasting results.
Talent and Teams
Access world-class talent or fully formed teams to expand your capabilities. Toptal connects you with highly skilled, on-demand professionals who seamlessly integrate into your organization.
Projects
Reach your business objectives with a Toptal-led project team. From planning through delivery, we manage every phase of your project seamlessly to ensure flawless, on-time execution and measurable impact.
Managed Services
Take full advantage of managed, end-to-end services. We define, manage, and optimize your business activities—continually tracking performance and adapting as needed to deliver value over time.
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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Highest ranked across all industries
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Methodology for the Rankings
How likely the respondent is to recommend the selected company to others.
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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.
Collaboration that works
How to Work with Toptal for your Management Consulting Needs
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 customized project plan, implementation process, and initial deliverables, whether you’re aiming to streamline operations, maximize productivity, optimize your costs, or redefine your business strategy.
4
Deploy
Partnering with you, Toptal will get to work, tracking quality assurance, handling project management, and maintaining the delivery schedule.
CUSTOMIZED SOLUTIONS
Management Consulting Solutions That Drive Impact
Toptal delivers leading management 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
Strategy Consultant
Finance Consultant
Management Consulting Expert
Strategy and Operations Consultant
Business Transformation Consultant
Operations 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+
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
Gustavo Pinto Guimaraes
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
14+ Years
of Experience
Strategy 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 intersect strategic, product, and commercial perspectives.
Previously at
Francesco Castellano
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
16+ Years
of Experience
Finance Consultant
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.
Previously at
Simone Girardeau
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
11+ Years
of Experience
Management Consulting Expert
Simone has 11+ years of expertise in strategy consulting, private equity, venture capital-backed businesses, and entrepreneurship. As a freelancer, she has vast experience in strategic projects for VC- and PE-backed companies, fundraising, and supporting earlier-stage businesses. A strategic problem solver, she enjoys providing structure to solve complex challenges. Simone quickly grasps the broader perspective, understands practical limitations, and executes for performance improvement.
Previously at
Barbara Close
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
36+ Years
of Experience
Strategy and Operations 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.
Previously at
John Lee
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
19+ Years
of Experience
Business Transformation Consultant
John is a highly commercial, entrepreneurial, culturally intelligent 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.
Previously at
Jakub Rehor
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
29+ Years
of Experience
Operations Consultant
Jakub has worked as a McKinsey consultant and portfolio manager at Third Avenue, a legendary multibillion-dollar value fund, leading investments, advising on acquisitions, and performing valuations for companies across geographies and sectors. A Yale graduate, he possesses extensive expertise in assessment, strategy development, and investment analysis. Jakub loves to help his clients with valuation, operations, and strategy.
Previously at
On-demand Talent and Teams
20,000+ vetted professionals, ready to deploy individually or in teams.
Business Strategy Consultant
M&A Expert
Business Development Consultant
Customer Experience Strategist
Growth Strategy Consultant
Business Strategy Consultant
Sales Effectiveness Consultant
Customer Experience Expert
Management Consultant
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
27+ Years
of Experience
Business Strategy Consultant
A Wharton MBA graduate, Carlo has led transactions on $10 billion worth of LBO and growth capital deals. He’s worked in investment banking, M&A (Deutsche Bank), management consulting (Bain & Company, Oliver Wyman), and corporate development (Lehman Brothers). Carlo leverages his skills in corporate finance, business strategy, and international business development to help companies scale and deliver value for their investors.
Previously at
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
20+ Years
of Experience
M&A Expert
David is an M&A expert who has worked with the owners of 100+ businesses to raise capital, exit their investments at premium valuations, or execute successful acquisitions and initial public offerings. With 20+ years of experience, including six years at PwC, he has worked in many industries and extensively in the technology, media, and telecommunications and renewable energy sectors. David joined Toptal to advise clients on complex M&A and capital-raising transactions across the world.
Previously at
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
20+ Years
of Experience
Business Development 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.
Previously at
Verified Expert in Design
7+ Years
of Experience
Customer Experience Strategist
Johnnie is a senior researcher, strategist, and service designer. Her engineering and business education make her an excellent fit for physical and digital design projects spanning industries. Johnnie specializes in early-stage design and innovation, and her skills also include workshop facilitation.
Previously at
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
10+ Years
of Experience
Growth Strategy Consultant
Arvind is a consultant with more than ten years of experience, including 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.
Previously at
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
13+ Years
of Experience
Business Strategy 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.
Previously at
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
31+ Years
of Experience
Sales Effectiveness 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.
Previously at
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
18+ Years
of Experience
Customer Experience Expert
Asa launched her consulting practice after a 18-year global career as a CX practitioner and executive leader within customer experience design for big corporates like Publicis Sapient, IKEA, du, Pandora, and Bang & Olufsen. She led large and complex CX transformations and helped multiple brands improve their whole customer experience journey to reach their business goals. Her deep expertise in data-led CX innovation and UX strategies made her want to become independent.
Previously at
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
18+ Years
of Experience
Management Consultant
Thorsten is a corporate finance advisor and CFO with an international career in investment banking (Lehman Brothers, Banco Santander) and technology ventures. He partners with SMEs as well as PE/VC investors in the technology, media, and telecommunications; healthcare; consumer; and financial services sectors to solve strategic and financial challenges. He is also an expert financial modeler and speaks English, German, and French.
Previously at
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35 Years of Experience
Michael is a management consulting and client advisory leader with experience at IBM, PwC, Cognizant, and Toptal. Over the course of his career, he has designed and directed consulting practices, including serving as head of consulting for the Americas at Cognizant, where he advised leaders across sectors such as telecommunications, media, and energy and utilities. Michael holds a BS in accounting from St. Joseph’s University and has completed advanced management programs at Harvard, Columbia, and Emory universities. He also serves as a guest lecturer at Columbia University and Baruch College.
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