Navigant Reviews

Pros

One of the best professional working environments I've ever worked. Opinions and skills were valued by my supervisors and subordinates. I was allowed to grow professionally and contribute to the growth of the organization.

Cons

Often times over-utilized (too much work, not enough time). Which is a good problem to have - the extra work/demand was recognized in bonuses/promotions, etc.

Advice to Management

Communicate more clearly to all staff strategic direction.

Pros

Most people are approachable. Compensation tends to be higher than market.

Cons

The BICM group is not well run and is not selling. Upper management is pretty selfish and money motivated and will throw employees away to achieve their goals. There are not always opportunities for everyone. If you are on the bench you could be there your whole time at the firm and just be let go. A lot of people are dissatisfied and leave.

Advice to Management

Understand that the people you treat poorly are potential clients. Treating people poorly to make more money is being pound foolish and penny wise.

Pros

1) Lots of on-site training; 2) Good opportunity to enter the field of compliance as a recent college or someone looking to switch careers; 3) The information that consultants work with is very interesting and varied each day

Cons

Be careful of big projects where most of the consultants are recent college grads. I know that each project is different, but for this one, it's very difficult to manage the quality and quantity of production. There is a general culture of fear and stress because the weekly quota is prioritized above everything else. Communications with management can be conflicting and intimidating, especially with the production rate....

Advice to Management

Please work on supporting the project's consultants at each level. The expectations of the project can be better managed with more encouragement and less negative reinforcement.

Pros

Good people and good support teams

Cons

bureaucracy can be challenging for getting things done

Advice to Management

none

Pros

great travel days great people supportive teams

Cons

I don't have anything negative to say but there is a 5-word limit

Advice to Management

n/a

Pros

Great bennifits, promote within, lots of training

Cons

Work life balance and work load.

Advice to Management

Less meetings. More even workload.

Pros

Interesting work, diverse environment, efforts were made to feel connected to various other parts of a large company

Cons

There seemed to be a good amount of favoritism in the particular division I worked in. The potential for success hinged greatly on being the "right" person - training or resources weren't readily provided. Often projects had very little time to be completed.

Advice to Management

More clear direction, pay more attention to who is in charge of smaller groups.

Pros

Really interesting projects, opportunity to travel, decent comp

Cons

No work-life balance and place is run as cult of personality depending on which practice you work for as Navigant grew through acquisitions.

Advice to Management

Give experienced hires, especially AD and up, the freedom to run their projects as the experienced professionals they are. You trusted them enough to hire at their level so stop treating them like junior consultants. Also, what's the point of holding team calibration discussions if senior management just ignores the consensus decisions make makes final decision that is often contrary to the calibration results.