Chase Covington

Partner McKinsey Transformation

Chase Covington is a Partner in McKinsey's New York office who leads large-scale business transformations and turnarounds across sectors, from basic materials to advanced manufacturing. Within McKinsey's Transformation Practice, he leads the firm's approach to independent diligences and to using AI to improve the speed and accuracy of value-creation-plan underwriting. His client work spans multi-hundred-million-dollar transformations of global industrial businesses — driving margin expansion, growth and operational efficiency, alongside large-scale turnarounds across top line, cost and working capital. He also contributes to McKinsey's Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice, and is a co-author of "The agentic transformation office: Redefining the economics of change" (2026), "Unlocking full potential: Five practices reshaping PE value creation" (2026) and "From potential to performance: Using gen AI to conduct outside-in diligence" (2025)