Tracy Francis is a senior partner with McKinsey who partners with clients from idea to impact. She also serves as the managing partner for Latin America, focusing on accelerating sustainable and inclusive growth in the region and enhancing Latin America's global profile.
Tracy has over two decades of business leadership experience across consumer, retail, and healthcare industries in the Americas. She helps leading companies take a holistic view of shifts in market dynamics to find new sources of growth, scale digital transformations, and accelerate performance.
Tracy has held a number of leadership roles in the firm, including leading our global marketing, communications, publishing and reputation at McKinsey (Reach and Engagement), serving as a member of our Shareholders Council (Board), leading the Consumer Practice in Latin America, and founding and leading the Healthcare Practice in Latin America.
A frequent public speaker at global events, including the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting and B20, she advances discussions on topics vital to the health of businesses, societies, and people. Tracy has coauthored authoritative and industry-shaping research on what it will take to accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth, how consumer-packaged goods and retail companies can navigate economic volatility, as well as the characteristics of Gen Z.
Tracy is also the chair of the Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal Foundation, which focuses on early childhood development, and a Board member of Americas Amigas, which provides access to mammograms for underserved populations.
A native Australian and mother of three, Tracy first joined McKinsey in 1997 in Sydney. She spent four years in the United States before moving to São Paulo in 2024. She is fluent in English and Portuguese.
Published work
“Greener shores: Brazil’s $100 billion decarbonization opportunity,” McKinsey & Company, October 2024
“Toward action: A G20 agenda for sustainable and inclusive growth,” McKinsey & Company, September 2024
“From poverty to empowerment: Raising the bar for sustainable and inclusive growth,” McKinsey Global Institute, August 2023
“‘The creative process is fabulously unpredictable. A great idea cannot be predicted’,” McKinsey & Company, June 2023
“‘Confidence without attitude is critical for today’s leaders’,” McKinsey & Company, February 2023
“John Chambers: ‘Breaking away during the tough times is when the next generation of great companies gets formed’,” McKinsey & Company, February 2023
“Why Davos matters more than ever,” McKinsey & Company, January 2023
“‘Find the smartest technologist in the company and make them CEO’,” McKinsey Quarterly, June 2022
“The path to sustainable and inclusive growth,” McKinsey & Company, April 2022
“Our future lives and livelihoods: Sustainable and inclusive and growing,” McKinsey Quarterly, October 2021
“Gen Z and the Latin American consumer today,” McKinsey & Company, December 2020
“How consumer-goods companies can prepare for the next normal,” McKinsey & Company, April 2020
Past experience
DingoBlue PTY
Marketing director
Blake Dawson Waldron
Paralegal
Education
Stanford Graduate School of Business
MBA
University of New South Wales
LLB, law
BA