I was a consultant at BCG who struggled to land a project. Here's how I turned it around.

Jonathan Chan spent five years as a consultant at Boston Consultant Group. He has advice for new consultants trying to land their first project. Courtesy/Jonathan Chan Jonathan Chan spent five years as a consultant at Boston Consultant Group. When he started in 2011, he initially had a hard time landing a project. He made a slide deck to vouch for himself, eventually landed a project, and was never benched again. This is an interview with Jonathan Chan, the cofounder and chief product and technology officer of Pear, an AI platform that's helping to reinvent consulting. Prior to that, he spent five years as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group. I started my career as a tech developer, then did my MBA and spent about five years in strategy at Westpac, an Australian bank. I loved strategy, so I applied to major consulting firms like McKinsey, Bain, and BCG.