Skipping the Grind in Consulting: How to Build Critical Thinking

Skipping the Grind in Consulting: How to Build Critical Thinking When AI Does the Junior Work For decades, consultants learned to think by doing the unglamorous work: building the model from scratch, reading the 80-page report, redoing the slide five times. It was how you learned the ropes, and how you built judgment along the way. AI now does most of that in minutes, and juniors are expected to deliver at senior speed from day one. How do you build that judgment now? In this session, Simone (former Kearney manager) and Andrea Terza (former BCG manager) look at how to train critical thinking when the apprenticeship has been automated. We'll cover what seniors see going wrong with AI-assisted work, how to rebuild the learning that grunt work used to give you, and how to use AI as a sparring partner instead of an answer machine.