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Darius Bates

PartnerAtlanta

Leads enterprise-wide transformations that deliver a step-change in performance, organizational health, and capabilities

Darius is a partner in McKinsey’s Atlanta office and a leader in the Transformation Practice in North America. Darius helps organizations unlock sustained bottom-line impact through enterprise-wide transformations that build capabilities from the C-suite to the frontline. Darius has experience across a variety of industries, including travel, logistics and transport, consumer, retail, and technology.

Examples of Darius’ recent client work include the following:

  • architecting an end-to-end transformation journey at an iconic apparel retailer to set a course for improved efficiency, gross margin, and growth
  • orchestrating an enterprise-wide transformation effort at a leading logistics company to identify savings opportunities, roadmap initiatives to capture the value, and then execute value capture and reinvestment for growth
  • designing a frontline sales force effectiveness and change management program to institute selling and performance management best practices at a leading consumer electronics retailer
  • supporting a global airline on customer experience transformation planning and implementation

Published Work

VIDEO

The transformation office: Key success factors, McKinsey & Company, July 2019

Growth initiatives in transformation: A conversation with Chris Angevine and Darius Bates, McKinsey & Company, July 2019

Turning transformation potential into impact: A conversation with Chris Angevine and Darius Bates, McKinsey & Company, July 2019

The Transformation office: One source of truth: A conversation with Chris Angevine and Darius Bates, McKinsey & Company, July 2019

Publications

Opportunity@Work: Addressing the opportunity gap and improving workforce equity outcomes,” McKinsey & Company, August 2024

Building Bridges: Closing equity gaps across DC’s Anacostia River,” McKinsey & Company, June 2023

A community Dr. King would be proud to call home: Revitalizing Atlanta’s westside,” McKinsey & Company, April 2023

Place-based diagnostics,” McKinsey & Company, April 2023

The case for inclusive growth,” McKinsey & Company, April 2021

Transformation in uncertain times: Tackling both the urgent and the important,” McKinsey & Company, February 2021

Education

Duke University, Fuqua School of Business
MBA, finance and decision sciences

Washington University in St. Louis
BA, marketing and psychology