HOW IS ERNST & YOUNG DIFFERENT WHEN IT COMES TO INCLUSIVENESS?
It is an environment where everyone who joins Ernst & Young is given an opportunity to be successful. At the time I joined, there weren’t very many women or ethnically diverse people here. It was important to me that in the beginning there were people who gave me an opportunity, so I wanted to give that back. Today, we have a richness in the different types of people we have at the firm. Everyone who comes here is respected and given a chance to be really successful. People who come to us can achieve what they want to. WHAT DOES INCLUSIVENESS MEAN TO YOU? Inclusiveness is how we leverage the mix of people we have, taking all the different people and all the experiences and putting them on teams to give our clients the best solutions to their questions. DESCRIBE A LEARNING EXPERIENCE FROM EARLY IN YOUR CAREER? Early on, I went out to work at a client’s office. When I walked in, the person in charge said that it was nice for Ernst & Young to send a secretary out to handle the administrat