Senior advice on strategy, growth and communication.

John founded ProRight as the independent platform for his advisory, fractional leadership, communications and teaching work. Current engagements include fractional strategy and growth leadership for emerging technology platforms, senior advisory work with established organizations, and executive writing and communication.

Before ProRight, John spent three decades as a partner at two of the world’s leading consulting firms. As a founding partner of Oliver Wyman, he built and led the firm’s global Digital and Technology Strategy practice and served on its management committee. Earlier, at Booz Allen Hamilton, he led the Information Systems business across Europe and the Middle East and served on that firm’s management committee as well.

In recent years, John has advised select minority- and women-owned consulting firms and education-focused enterprises on business development, operating models, and institutional scale. He is a guest lecturer at Washington College, where he teaches writing and communication.

John chairs the Smithsonian’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and is a Commissioner Emeritus and former Vice Chair of the National Portrait Gallery. His family endowed the Smithsonian’s triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, now a cornerstone of contemporary portraiture in America. He previously served as an elected trustee of Cornell University and continues to serve on the Advisory Council of Cornell’s College of Arts & Sciences. He holds advanced degrees from Johns Hopkins SAIS and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and graduated with distinction from Cornell.