Learn how Evening MBA alum Girish Joshi has charted a nonlinear path from consulting to executive leadership—driven by a desire to own outcomes and lead at scale.
Girish Joshi 12EvMBA has built a post-MBA career defined by persistence, adaptability, and a clear desire to move from advising businesses to running them. Before business school, Joshi worked in enterprise resource planning (ERP) consulting, a highly technical role that gave him exposure to how large organizations operate. But it was an early interaction with a private equity–backed COO—someone deeply involved in the details of turning around companies—that crystallized Joshi’s long-term goal: he wanted to own results and run a business with full profit and loss (P&L) responsibility.
From Advising to Owning Outcomes
After earning his MBA from Emory Goizueta, Joshi began his post-MBA journey at Accenture Strategy, a position he secured through on-campus recruiting. While he initially worried that consulting would keep him too close to the technical side of his background, the experience proved to be a critical bridge.
Consulting taught him how to drive competitive advantage through technology, structure complex problems, and build alignment across stakeholders. Still, Joshi knew that advising from the outside was not the end goal. As he put it, he wanted to be responsible for the decisions—and the outcomes.
Breaking Into P&L Leadership
Transitioning from consulting into a P&L role was far more difficult than he expected. Despite strong credentials, Joshi encountered repeated rejection and long stretches of silence. He learned a hard truth: private equity and P&L roles require not just strategy skills, but proof of execution and ownership.
That breakthrough finally came through relationships he had built over time. A referral led him to Chewy, where he stepped into his first major P&L role, running the dog food business. It was a pivotal moment. Applying the consulting playbook to real-world execution, Joshi grew revenue by 40% and improved margins, demonstrating that his strategic thinking could translate into tangible results. “I had this success under my belt, and I could say, ‘Hey, look! I know how to do this,’” he reflects.
Scaling Impact Through Experimentation
That success opened the door to his next chapter at Samsung, where his career truly began to accelerate. Leading e-commerce for the home appliances business, Joshi was given rare autonomy by a leader who encouraged experimentation and new ideas. That freedom became transformational. By consistently generating and testing ideas, Joshi drove rapid growth, expanded profitability, and emerged as one of the company’s top margin contributors. The experience reinforced a core belief that continues to shape his leadership style: innovation comes from volume and persistence, not perfection. “I learned the person who’s going to really get ahead,” he notes, “is the person who is the idea factory.”
Today, Joshi serves in a senior executive role at LG Electronics, where he leads a large e-commerce business with full P&L ownership. His responsibilities span revenue, profit, marketing, supply chain, pricing, promotions, and technology development, and he regularly engages with the CEO and executive leadership team on high-stakes decisions.
Joshi’s career journey is a powerful reminder that growth rarely follows a straight line. Through perseverance, strong relationships, and a willingness to take calculated risks, he transformed his MBA into a path of increasing responsibility, impact, and leadership—proving that preparation and bold thinking can eventually open even the most hard-to-reach doors.
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