Whenever Kearney partner Sachin Mehta walks into the firm’s São Paulo office, he sees some well-known words from Andrew Thomas Kearney on the wall by the reception desk: “Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good.”

Tom Kearney’s words resonate with him strongly because they’re what he believes consultants should be doing. “It’s not about decks and workshops, but actually doing the right thing for our clients to help them succeed,” Sachin says. “I always tell my teams that this is what this business is about; that’s what makes this business fun and gives me joy working at Kearney.”

Nearly three decades into his consulting career, Sachin has worked on dozens of invigorating growth-oriented engagements, including mergers and acquisitions, post-merger implementations, carve-outs and spinoffs, post-merger performance improvement, and large-scale transformation projects. He counts a strategy project for a television company, a three-year transformation at a bottler, and a post-merger integration project at a chemical company among his most memorable assignments.

“The chemical company integration project was a huge success; we brought together a team of 58 to seamlessly combine two entities with very different cultures and operating structures,” he recalls.

Consumer products is Sachin’s favorite industry to work in. “I like consumer because it’s so fast moving and it’s closer to us all than other industries are. It goes in line with my need to be challenged with difficult problems. Just look at how the pandemic transformed the industry so quickly. It has become a different market with new dynamics; you won’t see that sort of change in most other industries.”

Outside of his Kearney and client time, Sachin enjoys challenging himself on the golf course.

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