Robert Sternfels

Robert (Bob) Sternfels is a Director at McKinsey & Company. He co-leads McKinsey's North America Manufacturing Practice which has over 60 dedicated specialists that focus on helping clients design and execute broad-based operational transformations. Sternfels has worked with clients around the world (North American, Europe, Africa and Asia) covering sectors ranging from basic materials, medical devices, high tech, financial institutions, and consumer goods. His experiences range from operations strategy to execution of that strategy. Sternfels has authored documents on most aspects of productivity improvement, including manufacturing strategy, breakthroughs, capital productivity, change management, overhead reductions, and integrated turnarounds. Sternfels spent six years in South Africa helping to build McKinsey's practice in Africa. In San Francisco, Sternfels leads the West Coast Operations Group. Sternfels has a B.A. with honors from Stanford University and a M.A. in politics, philosophy, and economics from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar.