Special episode: Debriefing Davos 2025

This is the McKinsey Podcast. Where we help you make sense. out of our world's toughest business challenge. Welcome to the show. I'm Lucia Rahili. And I'm Roberta Fasara. Today we're rebroadcasting an episode from our McKinsey Live webinar series about what happened in Davos last week. You'll hear from senior partners Daniel Pactode, Rodney Zemmel, and Tracy Francis. Key themes on the mountaintop included AI transformation.

Resilience in geopolitic EU competitiveness, the energy transition, and women's health. Tracy, you are a Davos veteran. At this point. How would you characterize the mood on the mountaintop last week and anything to infer on what that might say about how leaders are feeling going into twenty twenty five?

It was interesting. I think everyone got on the plane headed towards expecting that topics such as The macro economy. geopolitic, sustainability, AI would be on the agenda. But there was, as you can imagine, a certain arc to the emotions of the week, right? Starting with the inauguration on Monday. And I think as we got towards the back end of the week, we saw quite a segmented babos. We saw American business leaders really feeling quite energized, I think, and optimistic, regardless of political leaning.

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