Sean Brown
Confidence 0.75 · 2 sources · last confirmed 2026-09-21
Sean Brown hosts Inside the Strategy Room, the podcast of McKinsey & Company’s Strategy and Corporate Finance Practice. He was promoted to an entity page on 21 September 2026 on his second appearance as host. The first was marked dangling on 2026-08-10-banholzer-laberge-mckinsey-how-to-maximize-competitive-advantage. This follows the precedent set for Roberta Fusaro, host of The McKinsey Podcast. He appears in body prose rather than in author:, because for video sources the author is the channel.
Role in the wiki
- 2026-09-08-west-lacroix-zimmerman-mckinsey-why-strategy-needs-mobilization (8 Sep 2026): host, with Andy West, Sébastien Lacroix and Whitney Zimmerman, on mobilization as the missing step between strategy and execution.
- 2026-08-10-banholzer-laberge-mckinsey-how-to-maximize-competitive-advantage (10 Aug 2026): host, with Matt Banholzer and Laura LaBerge, on the erosion of competitive advantage and how to measure it from outside.
Interviewing style observable
Brown bridges between guests by restating the previous answer as the premise of the next question (“So it seems like the power curve is getting steeper then…”). He names each guest at handover, which makes speaker attribution in unlabelled ASR transcripts reliable. Both episodes move in the same order: why now, then the diagnosis, then what leaders should do.