Strategy Principal Director at Accenture
CONSULTING
5/23/20231 min read
We discuss:
00:34 - What he learned were the biggest factors he did and didn’t want in a job from his previous roles
1:36 - The type of company culture he wanted
2:06 - Why he switched jobs when he did
4:09 - How he got his current role
5:35 - How he chose which consulting firm he wanted to work for
7:22 - An overview of his role
8:25 - What he does more specifically
9:23 - Examples of projects he’s worked on
9:48 - What supply chain strategy means
11:02- The typical steps to get a consulting role
13:01 - Why he was interested in supply chain consulting out of the other areas
14:03 - What a typical day looks like
16:12 - The typical length of a client project
17:14 - The standard steps of a project
18:02 - Examples of each step in a project
20:47 - What he likes about the role
22:11 - What he finds challenging about the role
23:33 - His typical hours
24:41 - How social the role is
25:34 - Advice
26:57 - What networking looks like to him
In this episode, Chris Tapia describes what he learned from his previous roles at Kearney, The North Highland Company, and Data Ventures and what he does in his current role as a Strategy Principal Director at Accenture. He received his undergraduate degree from Duke University in Mechanical Engineering and his MBA in New Product & Venture Development from MIT Sloan School of Management.