Welcome to How Leaders Lead, where every week you get to listen in while I interview some of the very best leaders in the world.

I break down the key learning so that by the end of the episode, you'll have something simple you can apply as you develop into a better leader.

That's what this podcast is all about.

You know, I hate to break it to you, but you won't make it

very far as a leader unless you know how to summon courage. You see, leaders have to speak their

minds. They got to get out of their comfort zone. They got to take risks and dream big. And all of that,

it all takes courage and lots of it.

That's why I'm so excited for you to hear from today's guest, Marissa Montiel, who has got

to be one of the most courageous leaders I know.

She's the former deputy CEO and vice chairman of Deloitte, and she has blazed a trail as one of the most accomplished and admired women in corporate leadership.

She believes we all have to summon courage, and when you can tap into it, you can dream bigger, learn more from failure, take charge of your own career, and so much more.

So here's my conversation with my good friend

and soon to be yours, Maritza Montiel. You know, Maritza, you worked your way out from the

bottom to become the deputy CEO and vice chairman of

Deloitte. You know, it's the largest accounting and consulting firm in the world with

180,000 people. I mean, that's quite a feat. But I have to ask you, you know, sometimes

these titles can be so confusing. What's a deputy CEO do? Well, it does all the stuff that the CEO doesn't really

want to do. So I had many things that reported to me. If you would analogize it to the corporate

world, it would be like a chief operating officer. We had obviously inside operations and the

managing of the business of Deloitte. And then we had obviously

things that were external and the external piece of it was led by someone else. And I basically

led with the day-to-day activities of the firm, including one of the most challenging things

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