The leader of PwC's 2,200-person DC office says clients expect some consulting work twice as fast as a year ago

Jeanelle Johnson, managing partner of PwC in the Washington DC area PwC AI is raising clients' expectations for faster delivery times on consulting projects. Jeanelle Johnson, PwC's DC managing partner, said clients now expect some work to be delivered in half the time. Faster delivery should not be confused with less work, said Johnson. AI is resetting assumptions about how quickly professional services firms should move, and consulting clients are getting impatient. "I am seeing clients ask for our help in delivering outcomes at a more rapid pace" compared to this time last year, Jeanelle Johnson, PwC's managing partner for the Washington DC area, told Business Insider. "Something that we might have said takes eight to 10 weeks; the expectation is probably half of that. The shelf life is half," Johnson said.