What Hewlett Consulting Partners does

Hewlett Consulting Partners (HCP) is a privately-held, founder-owned boutique consultancy organized as an LLC under New York state law, founded in 2009 by economist and author Sylvia Ann Hewlett. The firm is headquartered at 75 Central Park West, New York, operates with 11–50 employees, and serves enterprise clients across financial services, technology, healthcare, luxury, government, intelligence, and international development. HCP delivers research-driven consulting services through five core engagements — Sponsorship, Executive Presence 2.0, Diversity Dividend, Off-Ramps & On-Ramps, and #MeToo — together with keynote speaking and thought-leadership activations. HCP positions itself within the broader D&I research ecosystem alongside its sister organization, the Center for Talent Innovation (Coqual), also co-founded by Hewlett.

Name

Hewlett Consulting Partners

Legal name

Hewlett Consulting Partners LLC

Website

https://hewlettconsultingpartners.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Hewlett Consulting Partners is a New York-based, founder-owned boutique consultancy founded in 2009 that delivers research-driven diversity, inclusion, executive presence, and sponsorship advisory services to enterprise clients across financial services, technology, government, and other sectors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Management Consulting

NAICS

Human Resources Consulting Services (541612), Other Management Consulting Services (541618), Management Consulting Services (54161)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

Organization Design & Operating Model Consulting (BPAHAGAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Strategy & Corporate Development Consulting (BPAHACAA), M&A HR Advisory (Due Diligence, Integration, Carve-outs) (BPACAJAL)

Keywords

• Diversity and inclusion consulting
• Executive presence training
• Talent management consulting
• Sponsorship program advisory
• Leadership development services

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Consulting Engagements: Professional consulting services focused on diversity and inclusion transformation. Engagements cover sponsorship, executive presence, diversity dividend, and organizational change programs.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Hewlett Consulting Partners is a boutique consultancy that delivers research-driven advisory engagements on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Its core services are organized around five pillars—Sponsorship, Executive Presence 2.0, Diversity Dividend, Off-Ramps & On-Ramps, and post-#MeToo workplace advisory—delivered through senior-led engagements with enterprise, government, and mid-market clients worldwide.

Product overview

Hewlett Consulting Partners is a boutique consultancy offering research-driven consulting services focused on helping organizations leverage diversity across gender, race, sexual orientation, and geography. The company operates as a single integrated consulting practice organized around five core service offerings: Sponsorship, Executive Presence 2.0, Diversity Dividend, Off-Ramps & On-Ramps, and #MeToo. These services are delivered through research-driven methodologies that partner with organizational leadership and workforce in engaged transformation. The company was founded in 2009 by economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett, who also founded the Center for Talent Innovation (Coqual), a global think tank. The company is listed in The Economist's top ten consultancies and serves clients employing over 2.1 million people across more than 190 countries.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Executive Presence 2.0: Book and leadership framework on qualities essential to leadership in a post-pandemic and increasingly diverse world.
• The Sponsor Effect

Products and services

• Sponsorship Research-driven consulting engagement focused on helping organizations implement sponsorship programs to advance diverse talent, particularly addressing disparities where only 5% of Black employees have sponsors compared to 20% of White employees.
• Executive Presence 2.0 Leadership development consulting engagement based on the book by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, helping professionals develop the qualities essential for leadership including confidence, decisiveness, and the ability to command virtual meetings in an increasingly diverse world.
• Diversity Dividend Consulting engagement that helps companies harness quality and diversity of talent to drive innovation, leveraging diverse ideas, solutions, and insights from their workforce to achieve measurable business improvements.
• Off-Ramps & On-Ramps Consulting engagement focused on keeping talented women on the career track, addressing career interruption patterns and strategies to reintegrate professionals into the workforce.
• #MeToo Workplace Advisory Consulting engagement addressing workplace dynamics related to sexual harassment, power imbalances, and creating safe corporate environments in the post-MeToo era.
• Keynote Speaking Leadership and diversity keynote presentations at major venues including Davos, Mobile World Congress, New York Stock Exchange, Financial Times conferences, and corporate events for clients such as Citi, MGM Resorts, and Goldman Sachs.

Quantifiable outcome

• Client organizations collectively employ over 2.1 million employees and operate in more than 190 countries
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers20 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Center for Talent Innovation (Coqual)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRelated organization co-founded by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, a global think tank focused on recruiting, retaining and progressing high performing talent. Both HCP and Coqual focus on diversity across gender, race, sexual orientation and culture.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Coqual (Center for Talent Innovation): Research-driven think tank co-founded by Sylvia Ann Hewlett focused on diverse talent advancement. Closely adjacent as a sister entity with overlapping mission and content pipeline, and a frequent partner in producing the research that underpins HCP's consulting methodology.
• Paradigm (Paradox Advisors): Boutique diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy consultancy working with Fortune 500 companies on inclusive culture, talent, and equity outcomes. Comparable as a smaller, specialist DEI advisor targeting the same enterprise buyer as HCP.

Direct peers

• Catalyst: Global nonprofit focused on advancing women in the workplace through research and advisory. Directly comparable as a research-to-advisory organization serving enterprise clients on gender and inclusion outcomes, though operating as a nonprofit rather than fee-for-service consultancy.
• DDI (Development Dimensions International): Specialist leadership and talent consultancy offering research-backed frameworks for executive development, inclusion, and succession. Comparable as a research-driven boutique-to-mid-market competitor focused on leadership and behavioral change outcomes.

Broad incumbents

• Korn Ferry: Global organizational consulting firm with a substantial DEI, leadership development, and talent practice. Comparable because it sells D&I transformation and executive development advisory to the same Fortune 500 buyer, but at vastly greater scale and broader scope.
• McKinsey & Company (Organization Practice): Global strategy consultancy with a dedicated DEI service line within its Organization Practice. Comparable because it sells enterprise DEI and inclusion transformation programs to overlapping C-suite buyers, though bundled into broader strategy engagements.
• Accenture (Inclusion & Diversity practice): Global professional services firm with a substantial inclusion and diversity service line serving multinational employers. Comparable buyer base (C-suite CHROs and inclusion officers at large enterprises) and overlapping frameworks around workforce inclusion.
• Bain & Company (Organization practice): Global strategy consultancy with research-led DEI and future-of-work advisory. Comparable as a research-driven consultancy serving Fortune 500 CHROs on inclusion transformation, embedded within broader organization and change engagements.
• Heidrick & Struggles:
• Egon Zehnder: Global executive search and leadership advisory firm. Comparable because it sells executive development, leadership assessment, and culture advisory to enterprise boards and CHROs — the same buyer cohort HCP serves through Executive Presence 2.0 and sponsorship engagements.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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