1999 was a defining year in my life. I played a key role in helping my engineering college bring home a coveted cricket trophy and graduated with awards for 1st rank across all disciplines and “Best Outgoing Student of the Year” for the class of ’99. That year though would throw my personal life into turmoil. I found my soulmate but it took many emotionally-draining years to persuade my family to accept someone outside my religion. Taking the biggest risk of my life has been worth it. We recently celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary and could not be happier.
It was after my personal life finally settled down that my leadership development journey started at Deloitte. In 2007, I led a 10-member team to validate a complex emerging technology which now forms the backbone of Deloitte’s global audit platform used by 60,000+ audit partners and practitioners around the world. I have to admit I struggled as a leader. I was afraid of failure so much so that I took over and …show more content…
I found myself engaging and advising the business, drawing out their needs, and offering solutions that balanced short-term priorities with longer term technical considerations. As I took charge of a larger 30-member cross-functional team in 2009, I recognized the need to scale myself and invested in coaching high-potential staff. I helped three of my counselees grow into managers and together we delivered key business needs including a strategic risk-based audit methodology. My passion for a responsive user experience delivered near 50% performance improvement in the top 100 business transaction flows. A Project Management Professional certification in 2010 was very beneficial for it enabled me to champion the adoption of Agile methodology, which has proved transformative ever since in our ability to respond to changing business needs and deliver truly what the customer
It was after my personal life finally settled down that my leadership development journey started at Deloitte. In 2007, I led a 10-member team to validate a complex emerging technology which now forms the backbone of Deloitte’s global audit platform used by 60,000+ audit partners and practitioners around the world. I have to admit I struggled as a leader. I was afraid of failure so much so that I took over and …show more content…
I found myself engaging and advising the business, drawing out their needs, and offering solutions that balanced short-term priorities with longer term technical considerations. As I took charge of a larger 30-member cross-functional team in 2009, I recognized the need to scale myself and invested in coaching high-potential staff. I helped three of my counselees grow into managers and together we delivered key business needs including a strategic risk-based audit methodology. My passion for a responsive user experience delivered near 50% performance improvement in the top 100 business transaction flows. A Project Management Professional certification in 2010 was very beneficial for it enabled me to champion the adoption of Agile methodology, which has proved transformative ever since in our ability to respond to changing business needs and deliver truly what the customer