Partner | McKinsey & Company, Social Sector Office | Washington, DC

Experience Highlights

Taliento is a co-founder and leader of McKinsey’s Social Sector Office, which houses the Firm’s worldwide practices in Global Public Health, Economic Development, Education, and Philanthropy. Taliento has 16 years of experience in designing successful strategies and effective organizations for some of the world’s leading foundations, individual philanthropists, nonprofits and corporations engaging in social issues. She is well-known for her ability to lead multi-stakeholder efforts across all sectors, and has helped design innovative public-private partnerships and multilateral institutions such as Haiti’s new Interim Recovery Commission.

Taliento is also an expert on the topic of advocacy, and has worked with some of the world’s best known public figures, foundations and nonprofits on the design of innovative issue advocacy campaigns. Taliento also works extensively with private sector clients seeking to deploy their assets and capabilities more strategically to solve social issues. She leads McKinsey’s work on women in development, recently publishing the McKinsey report “The Business of Empowering Women.” Her other publications include “Learning For Social Impact,” a guide to help foundations and nonprofits measure impact, and “And the Winner Is…” a report on the best practices in philanthropic prizes. She advises many boards on governance issues, and sits on the Board of the Clinton Health Access Initiative.

Commitment to Water.org

"Access to safe water and sanitation is absolutely essential to making lasting progress on all aspects of human development. Water.org has a unique focus on genuine community leadership and on creating a new market for water credit, so that we can get more people access to water and sanitation more quickly, and see these investments sustained over time. I’m excited to be part of furthering Water.org’s mission to make global access to two of life’s most basic necessities a reality."

Education

B.A., American Studies, Yale University, summa cum laude

M.P.P., John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; Kennedy Fellow