February 2025
Brief
Headlines
Updates from the consulting industry + the world's biggest problems
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has excluded life-saving humanitarian aid programs, such as PEPFAR-which has saved over 25 million lives-from the federal funding freeze. -Reuters, archived
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is "relatively confident" that artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence by 2027. -Wall Street Journal, archived
A promising post-COVID trend: Volunteers choosing to get sick so that treatments can be tested faster. -New York Times, archived
A bit closer to home: Congratulations to our CEO, Sarah Pomeranz, for winning Consulting Magazine's Rising Star Award for Excellence in Leadership! -Consulting Magazine
Quick wins
Your Valentine will be so impressed
Find high-impact roles through our new guide to the 10 best job boards for consultants.
Apply for an 8-week night course on AI safety, ethics, and society, based on top researcher Dan Hendrycks's new textbook. (Due today, February 5!)
Considering a career in animal welfare policy? Apply for a free advising call with Animal Policy Careers.
An AI risk tip line is seeking volunteers for two areas: advising anonymous tipsters and organizational content creation.
Deep reads
A closer look at complex, critical topics
Podcast: A job search style that robustly reduces anxiety + tests your market fit faster. -Phyl Terry
Two months after quitting his job, Joachim Verheyen is staring down Big Tobacco in Moldova. -School for Moral Ambition
It's largely up to companies to determine whether their AI is capable of superhuman harm. At Anthropic, the Frontier Red Team looks for the danger zone. -Wall Street Journal (archived)
New report: How to make progress on climate goals during the Trump administration -Founders Pledge
I recently quit PwC after less than a year. Here's why. -r/consulting
Coming up
Events marked with an asterisk mean our team will be there - come say hello!
February
- USDA ARS 8th International Biosafety & Biocontainment Symposium, February 10-13
- EA Global: Bay Area, February 21-23*
March and beyond
- AI for Animals 2025 Conference, March 1-2
- EAGxCDMX, March 14-16
Meet the member
We caught up with Jason Bono, a particle physicist who consulted for the Pentagon and Deloitte before starting a new AI venture as part of as part of Ambitious Impact's Founding to Give Incubator.
Why the change: "I started thinking it was time to work on more pragmatic problems with direct societal impact on potentially shorter time horizons. That's actually how I found resources like Consultants for Impact in the first place. I was doing a rethink of what the big problems were."
His advice for consultants: "Be thoughtful about what challenges are worth taking on. The scope of work on your projects matters a lot."
Jobs
Your three-year transition plan just got a lot shorter
- Program Officer, Reducing Risk from AI, Biosecurity - INHR (Apply by February 6)
- Strategic Planning and Monitoring Manager - Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (Apply by February 17)
- Chief Executive Officer - London Initiative for Safe AI (Apply by February 24)
- Director - Screwworm Free Future(Apply by March 1)
- Impact Officer - Weiss Asset Management Foundation (Rolling)
- Senior Product Manager - Elicit (Rolling)
- Senior Operations Manager - Against Malaria Foundation (Rolling)
- Senior Technical Product Manager, Institute for Disease Modeling - Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation(Rolling)
- Senior AI Policy Associate, J-PAL Global - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab(Rolling)
- Senior Manager, External Relations - GiveDirectly (Rolling)
Want to talk jobs?
Our team has 15+ years of experience in the consulting industry and have each personally transitioned into high impact roles. We'd love to help you do the same!
