Matthew McCreight is a managing partner at Schaffer Consulting. He has been with the firm since the late 1980s, consulting with a wide variety of organizations across all sectors, including health care and manufacturing companies, financial service firms, governmental agencies and non-profits.
Matthew has helped many organizations carry out large-scale change in ways that rapidly achieve significant results, building the strategic direction, leadership capabilities and broad-based involvement that are essential for continued success over the long-term. In this context he works with senior leaders and their teams to orchestrate the improvement and transformation of their organizations. He also coaches and helps develop the capabilities of internal groups—human resources, finance, consulting, information technology and others—to support the push for rapid and lasting results.
Over the years, Matthew has helped corporations and not-for-profits create major growth. He has also worked with leadership teams to bring about financial turnarounds in record time. In addition, he has helped executives to effect the integration of internal organizations as well as new acquisitions, in ways that bridge challenging issues and create better performance.
Matthew’s clients have included many of the Global 1000 companies, as well as public and non-profit organizations such as Zurich Financial Services, Johnson & Johnson, HBOS, New American Schools, General Electric, Marsh, QBE, Yale University, Hospital League 1199, ACE and The United Way.
Matthew authored Chapters 5 and 6 of Schaffer Consulting's book Rapid Results! How 100-Day Projects Build the Capacity for Large-Scale Change. Other publications include "Don't Waste Time Seeking the Right Change Model, Build Your Own" with Robert Schaffer (Business Horizons) and "WorkOut and Six Sigma" with Ron Ashkenas and Patrice Murphy, a chapter from the book The Six Sigma Leadership Handbook.
Before joining the firm, Matthew earned his BA in Economics from Wesleyan University, and his MBA from the Yale School of Management. In his spare time, he and his family work to create results in a challenging flower and vegetable garden.
