Scott Rutherford

Scott is a Management Consultant, Executive Advisor, and Team Facilitator that specializes in strengthening the links between an Organization’s Mission, Strategy, and Culture. Working with both corporations and NGOs, Scott is most fascinated and passionate about leveraging the alignment of organizational and personal outcomes to create value, meaning and social change.

Scott has over twenty years of experience leading and working with major corporations in several countries. From an engineer for a Japanese trading company in the early 90’s to the first foreign-born VP of that same company five years later, as well as President of its Canadian subsidiary, Scott then moved into consulting, first for his own firm, and then with McKinsey & Company from 2001 to 2005 as an Expert in Organization and Leadership.

Since 2005, Scott has continued to work with McKinsey, and other global corporations, at the same time increasing the share of time he devotes to distinctive socially-conscious organizations such as The Aga Khan Foundation, Engineers Without Borders and the Green Party. In all cases, Scott’s practice focuses on choreographing a suite of strategic and cultural interventions that fundamentally transform the ways of thinking and acting within organizations and teams – essentially initiating and instilling meaningful change.   

Scott holds an MBA from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management as well as an Engineering degree in Geophysics from Queen’s University. He is currently developing a executive retreat center near Algonquin Park in Canada to support the work he does with organizations and teams.