Enrico Calvanese
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Studied at Harvard Kennedy School
Worked at McKinsey & Company
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About Enrico
I grew up in Italy and came to the US for my career, spending 4.5 years at McKinsey across the Denver and Milan offices in the firm's strategy practice. Two threads run through my life outside consulting. The first is climbing. I'm a mountaineer, and choosing Denver and Milan as my offices was deliberate: both put serious mountains less than an hour from the desk. The second is work in international development, which has taken me to live and work across six continents. Both shape how I think about coaching. Climbing trains you to break hard problems into deliberate moves, and working across very different contexts teaches you when frameworks travel and when they don't. What I try to bring as a coach is a structured but not formulaic approach. Frameworks matter, but most candidates I saw at McKinsey weren't rejected for failing to use a framework. They were rejected for not thinking clearly under pressure. My work focuses on that more than on any prescribed methodology.
Why do I coach?
The most fulfilling parts of my consulting years weren't the engagements themselves. They were the moments when someone on my team — a junior on a project, a candidate I was interviewing across the table — saw something new in how they were thinking and started to operate differently. I'd find myself looking forward to those moments more than the actual client work. When I left McKinsey, doing this full-time was the obvious next step. I also coach because good case interview coaching is harder to access than it should be. Most candidates don't have a former MBB EM in their network willing to spend hours diagnosing what's actually getting in their way. I want to be part of changing that.
Work Experience
Engagement Manager
McKinsey & Company
May 2024 - April 2026
Interviewer
Led strategy and transformation engagements across healthcare, public sector, and consumer, partnering with senior executives to design and implement large-scale initiatives. Managed cross-functional teams of up to 5 across geographies. Selected work: digital transformation across 300+ hospitals optimizing public fund allocation; 5-year enterprise strategy for a nonprofit enabling 5× reach and 2× revenue growth; pricing strategy for a multinational consumer brand driving $35M+ in incremental annual revenue. Contributed to firm building through recruiting (3× peer average in interviews conducted) and proposal development supporting $10M+ in client engagements.
Associate / Senior Associate
McKinsey & Company
January 2022 - May 2024
Interviewer
1 year rotation in the office in Milan, Italy
Economist
World Bank
July 2020 - July 2021
Independently led projects worth $100,000, promoted from a support role after only 4 months. Guided an econometric analysis motivating the revision of government transfers to 250,000 households.
Research Assistant
Harvard University
July 2019 - July 2021
Supported research published in the AER (top 5 econs journel). Collaborated in multiple projects in public economics and political economy, including COVID-19 epidemiological modeling and work on tax and immigration policy.
Education
Harvard Kennedy School
Master in Public Administration in International Development, Econometrics and Quantitative Economics
2018 - 2020
Ranked 1st/69 in Microeconomics, and in top 10% in Advanced Macroeconomics and Econometrics.
University Paris Cite
Bachelor's, Sociology, Sociology
2012 - 2015
Grade: Mention très bien (Magna cum laude) Higest GPA of my class (76 students). One-year student exchange at The University of Sydney, Australia.
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