Kathleen Polsinello is a passionate people leader and experienced management consultant. She currently leads Boston Consulting Group’s Consumer practice in Canada. Since joining BCG in 2006, Kathleen has worked with a wide range of retail and consumer goods companies in Canada, the UK, and the US. Most of her client engagements have involved leading companies through major business transformations for them to more effectively compete in the dynamic world of retail.

Kathleen also co-leads the firm’s Women@BCG initiative for Canada. In 2019, she co-authored ‘Beyond Good Intentions: Bringing an Employee Lens to Diversity & Inclusion in Corporate Canada’. The report summarized a survey of over 5000 employees at major Canadian corporations to get a bottom-up view of how women, LGBTQ2, people of colour, Indigenous people and Canadians with disabilities experience diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Kathleen also sits on the board of the Whitney Child Centre in Toronto and the board of Entreprises Norman Hebert Inc. in Montreal. She holds an MBA from Harvard University, where she was a Dean’s Award recipient, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce (Honors) from Queen’s University.

Kathleen grew up in Montreal, Quebec and is fluently bilingual. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her family, skiing and golfing.