About Off the Slide

Off The Slide is a home for candid thinking on strategy and transformation.

In boardrooms, strategy is often reduced to a few polished slides. But behind every slide are debates, trade-offs, tensions, and real decisions.

Drawing on a network of strategy and transformation leaders, Off the Slide shares practitioners' insights, reflections and opinions on how strategy is shaped, transformation is executed, and careers are built - told by the people doing the work.

Who's Behind This

I’m Samantha Cheng, the creator of Off the Slide. Born and raised in Hong Kong, I’ve spent most of my career in rooms where big corporate decisions are made, debated, refined – and occasionally parked in a drawer until they’re ready for a dramatic comeback as a “brand new” idea.

I started out in private banking at J.P. Morgan, where I mastered the art of counting zeros and developed a lasting respect for commas. It was an early education in how large institutions think about risk, growth, and what keeps people up at night.

I then joined McKinsey, working across strategy and transformation projects in different industries and markets. I learned how to structure messy problems, survive on airport food, compress a 3‑year journey into a ten‑page deck, and how often the real work begins after the final slide says “Thank you”.

Today, I work in-house, leading strategy, transformation and innovation from the inside. Turns out being on the receiving end of consulting advice is its own form of education. The slides look different from this side of the table.

Off the Slide is where I share what I see firsthand across consulting and corporates – and where I invite others in this world to share their own hard-won perspectives from behind the slides.

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