Shannon Bagley, Senior Advisor with McKinsey,  is a dynamic Fortune 25 C-suite executive with board expertise, P&L ownership and 25 years of transaction-related experience, who has led through multi-billion-dollar mergers and acquisitions, steering restructurings that improve performance, drive bold change and transformation, and top-tier culture. Trusted to create talent and culture strategies that advance business goals and fuel innovation, Shannon brings deep experience designing and executing innovative human capital solutions that enable business leaders to activate enterprise-wide initiatives at scale and with speed.

Throughout her 20-year career at Centene Corporation, Shannon cultivated a unique vantage point and perspective through multiple expansions of one of the fastest growing public companies during this time. She navigated transactions in varying sizes and scale (e.g., organic start-ups, joint venture mergers, and massive acquisitions) serving in a variety of executive roles (e.g., Chief Audit Executive, Plan President and CEO, SVP Integration Management, EVP Chief People Officer, EVP Chief Administrative Officer).

In addition to leading change management, communications and culture strategy of several multi-billion-dollar acquisitions, she led the transformation of Centene’s talent model, aligning business and people strategy, and modernizing HR. She founded Centene University, the flagship leadership development program and the company’s first leadership model. In focusing on advancing the people agenda at scale, she significantly improved employee engagement, cultural health, people leader and DEI effectiveness. Her impact surpassed Fortune 100 benchmarks, and received best-in-class industry recognition.  

As a respected board advisor, she successfully partners with CEO’s and Boards to accelerate strategic outcomes and growth.  She has extensive board experience working collaboratively with Centene’s Audit and Risk, Talent and Compensation, and Nominating and Governance Committees alongside her executive responsibilities.  Shannon began her career as a CPA, working with Arthur Andersen and KPMG, LLP.