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Reflections on strategy, consulting, leadership, and service from Branden Pearson — Florida-based consultant at BCG. Published on Substack.
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From Florida to Defense Consulting: My Career Journey
How a kid from Cape Coral, Florida — who served as JROTC Cadet Colonel and competed in Model UN — ended up leading defense transformation programs at one of the world's top consulting firms.
Installing Water Filters in Central America: Lessons in Impact
Five years of service trips with CRU at UF and Filter of Hope — from Guatemala to Costa Rica — and what clean water access taught me about what it means to serve.
How I Approach Complex Strategy Problems
Most strategy problems look complex at the surface. The discipline is separating what is genuinely uncertain from what just looks uncertain — and building a structured path to both.
What Makes Consulting Work Actually Useful
The most useful consulting engagements aren't measured by the quality of the deck — they're measured by what happens after the team leaves. That distinction shapes how I think about every engagement.
Lessons from Leadership, Service, and Consulting
The same qualities that make someone effective on a service trip in rural Panama — listening carefully, adapting to the context, earning trust through action — turn out to be exactly what makes consulting work useful.