Boutique advisory
McNees Group brings together a core team of senior advisors and a deep network of subject matter experts across every major industry. We build the right team for your problem. Not the team we happened to have on staff.
Our approach
Most consulting firms show up with a framework they built for someone else and charge you to watch them apply it. We don't work that way.
McNees Group starts with your problem. We assemble a team that has the specific expertise your challenge requires, from energy policy to organizational design to emerging technology. The experts change. The rigor doesn't.
We work with organizations that want real answers, not comfortable ones. If you need someone to validate a decision you've already made, we're probably not the right fit. If you need to understand what's actually happening and what to do about it, call us.
Every engagement starts fresh. We assemble the right experts for your specific challenge, not a pre-packaged team.
A core leadership team with access to world-class specialists across medicine, engineering, AI, sustainability, policy, and business strategy.
Every recommendation is grounded in market logic and measurable outcomes. Not trends. Not theory. Results.
We measure what matters. If a solution doesn't hold up to rigorous scrutiny, we say so before you find out the hard way.
What we do
Whether you need policy guidance, an innovation breakthrough, or a keynote that changes how your audience thinks, we bring the same discipline to every engagement.
The rules around energy infrastructure, data center load, and ratepayer accountability are changing fast. We help utilities, corporations, and investors understand what the policy landscape means for their business and what to do about it.
A focused 2 to 3 day engagement that moves your organization from stuck to solved. We bring systems thinking, design thinking, and the right subject matter experts to your hardest problem and leave with a clear path forward.
Dr. McNees speaks on corporate accountability, energy economics, and what market-based thinking actually looks like in practice. Audiences leave with a sharper understanding of the forces shaping their industry and a clearer frame for making decisions.
Leadership
Dr. Mark McNees is the Managing Consultant of McNees Group and Director of Social and Sustainable Enterprises at Florida State University's Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship. He works at the intersection of corporate accountability, energy policy, and market-based innovation.
His core argument is straightforward: companies should not be allowed to externalize costs while internalizing profits. That principle shows up in his policy work, his speaking, his writing, and every engagement McNees Group takes on.
He has been quoted in USA Today, published in The Hill, The Invading Sea, and other national outlets, and is a frequent voice on the economics of AI energy demand and utility rate accountability. He hosts the InNOLEvation Mindset podcast, with over 100,000 views and 122 episodes featuring conversations with FSU's top innovators and entrepreneurs.
With an estimated 5,000 presentations across his career and a network spanning 16 academic disciplines, he brings both the intellectual depth and the platform to move organizations forward.
In the press
Dr. McNees is a regular source and contributor for national publications covering energy policy, AI infrastructure economics, and market accountability.
Work with us
We take on a small number of engagements at a time. If your challenge fits what we do, we will respond within one business day.