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Today I have a wonderful opportunity of introducing our special guest, Teresa Briggs.

Teresa Briggs. Teresa has been at Deloitte for 26 years. I'm going to guess that some of you

haven't been alive for 26 years. Okay? And she spent the first 18 years in the audit practice at

Deloitte. And she actually assumed she would be doing that for the rest of her career.

But a very interesting twist happened, and she was asked to join the mergers and acquisitions group.

And she loved it. It was fascinating.

But then the New York office pulled her away, she went to New York and worked on corporate strategy.

And just two and a half years ago was asked by Deloitte to come out to San Francisco, come out to the Bay Area,

and run the Silicon Valley practice.

She has amazing stories to tell us about innovation,

entrepreneurship, and leadership within this very exciting company.

So, Teresa, without further ado.

Okay. Thank you. I'm going to start by asking you guys all a question. So I'd like to know

what do you think of when you think of Deloitte? If anything, just throw something out. Anybody.

Accounting. Okay, accounting. Taxes. Audit. Okay. Consulting. Okay. All of those things are part of what Deloitte is.

And I'll get into some examples of what we are in a couple of minutes.

But I wanted to kind of test your knowledge about the brand to start out with.

And you hit many of the things that we do at the highest level.

Now you might wonder why is someone from Deloitte who does all of those

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