Recently, I had a truly thrilling experience: helping two United Nations agencies set up a global partnership to seek new approaches to end child hunger. During our field trips to Niger and Mauritania, we developed a process to improve collaboration among all involved entities. We found several “quick win” solutions that will contribute in a very concrete way to the health of local children.
Every BCG project has its own statistics, its own metrics. But on this project, the abstract numbers were given a very real face. Our metrics were children under five years old suffering from undernutrition. The project presented a very special challenge; it required a high professional commitment from those of us from BCG. In return, it rewarded us many times over in terms of personal development.
For our corporate clients, we continuously do an outstanding job of finding new ways to optimize their company structures. The personal satisfaction of helping these organizations is very real. Yet that kind of satisfaction pales when compared with the feelings you have when you have helped reduce the number of underweight children in a particular population. There is no question about it: working on BCG’s social impact projects, you can make a real difference.