June 2025
Brief
Headlines
Updates from the consulting industry + the world's biggest problems
The African Development Bank has announced the Africa Carbon Support Facility, which will help governments develop carbon markets for climate finance. -Reuters
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns that frontier AI could wipe out fifty percent of entry-level white-collar jobs within five years and urges much stronger government action on safety. -Business Insider
The Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation program has launched 5 highly promising new organizations, with estimated cost-effectiveness ranging from $4-20 per life-year saved. -Ambitious Impact
McKinsey has cut over 10% of its workforce in 18 months due to slowing market growth and $1.6 billion opioid settlements. -FT
Consultants for Impact members and ex-consultants Haindavi Kandarpa (BCG) and Uttej K (Bain) have announced the Centre for Policy Innovation, a Charity Entrepreneurship-backed nonprofit dedicated to Indian welfare reform. To learn more, sign up for their newsletter!
Quick wins
Courses, tools, and other shortcuts to impact
Curious about AI governance in the EU and beyond? Try this top-rated free Coursera course. -Erasmus University Rotterdam
Meet Interview Warmup: an AI tool for practicing interview answers with real-time transcription and feedback. -Grow with Google
Why do you want to work? What is work for? Develop your 150-word "Workview" to gain insight. -Yale University
No Violence At Home (NOVAH) is looking for part-time volunteers in communications, research and analysis, and more to scale their work preventing intimate partner violence. -NOVAH
A new US bill, if passed, will remove critical animal welfare protections against extreme confinement. Consider signing this petition against it. -The Humane League
Deep reads
Nuanced takes worth your time
No one knows it when they don't die: on the silent heroism of disease prevention. -Hank Green
Charity for shrimps! Meet Andres Jimenez Zorrilla, an investment banker who left that life behind to fight for shrimp welfare. -The Daily Show
What are the most cost-effective charities for creating happiness? -Happier Lives Institute
How to build your network. -HBR
Current AI models can make building bioweapons much easier. -AI Frontiers
Cindy joins us to lead our social media and digital marketing initiatives. She brings a background in mission-driven startups, particularly in the alternative protein, education, and design industries. Formerly a right-hand to founders and executives at startups like Finless Foods and Anarchy Data, she expanded into digital marketing, gaining hands-on experience in content strategy, community growth, and digital operations. Across roles, she brings a sharp sense of organization, a storyteller's instinct, and a drive to build digital ecosystems that support values-aligned work.
You'll be hearing a lot more from her soon!
Read more about our team here https://www.consultantsforimpact.org/about
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Coming up
Events worth using summer PTO for
June and beyond
- Profit for Good, June 11
- Metascience Conference, June 30-July 2
July and beyond
- PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference 2025, July 2-5
- Animal & Vegan Advocacy (AVA) Summit, July 11-13
- EAGx Nigeria, July 11-13 (Apply by June 30)
- Compassionate Future Summit, August 21-25
- Asia for Animals Conference, August 25-29
Meet the member
We spoke with Jamie Woodhouse, a former Accenture Managing Director, who currently focuses on championing a worldview he developed called Sententism, which promotes "evidence, reason, and compassion for all sentient beings."
Why start a new worldview? "It felt to me like this ultimate meta-intervention. Worldviews are the things that sit underneath every single human decision. Given humans have so much power, if there's something that underpins and steers every decision humans make-institutionally or individually-and that thing is worldviews, then it's got to be important to focus on."
What message would you send to your Managing Director-era self? "Be braver and do it earlier. This transition hasn't always been easy and has often felt deeply strange, but I have no regrets at all. There hasn't been a single day where I wish I'd kept going, or where I wish I'd switched into another consulting career, or I wish I'd gone to work for a client, or I wish I'd gone into private equity. Not a single moment."
Jobs
Get paid to assist solving the world's worst problems!
- Program Associate / Senior Program Associate, Potential Risks from Advanced AI - Open Philanthropy(Apply by June 8)
- Director, Operations - Timaeus (Apply by June 11)
- Partnership Manager - Lead Exposure Elimination Project (Apply by June 15)
- Chief Executive Officer - Non-Trivial (Apply by June 19)
- Head of Strategic Partnerships, Head of Growth/Marketing - FarmKind (Rolling)
- Business Development, Foundations and Corporates Consultant - Living Goods (Rolling)
- Strategy Officer, Maternal, Newborn, Child Nutrition and Health, Senior Program Officer, Malaria Modelling and Quantitative Science - Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation(Rolling)
- Research Associate, AI Policy - RAND Corporation (Rolling)
- Associate, AI2050 - Schmidt Sciences (Rolling)
- Research Manager, India - Precision Development (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!
