Former Deloitte CEO Is a Big Fan of ‘Smors’
No, Cathy Engelbert isn’t talking about the delicious summertime treat. She’s talking about “small moments of recovery.” “I learned this at Deloitte because when you’re running a firm of that size, you have to find time. We dubbed them smors. My EA used to put them on my calendar: Small moments of recovery. You need moments during […]
Former Deloitte CEO Disses Men and Their Spreadsheets
Does Cathy Engelbert have a point here, ladies? As the first female CEO of a major professional services firm, Cathy Engelbert learned a valuable lesson: Never trust a spreadsheet made by men. “No spreadsheet ever yielded a great result for women,” says Engelbert, who recently became commissioner of the WNBA after a 33-year career at […]
Guess Which Big 4 Firm Was Named Official Professional Services Provider of the WNBA?
Was there any doubt it wouldn’t be Deloitte? I mean, look who the WNBA commissioner is. What I find odd is that Cathy Engelbert’s name is nowhere to be found in this press release, which looks like it came from GreenDotville (via PR Newswire): Deloitte and the Women’s National Basketball Association today [Jan. 14] announced […]
Ex-Deloitte CEO to Get Free Big Macs For Life
OK, we don’t know if that’s actually true, or if Cathy Engelbert even likes McDonald’s signature “two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun” sandwich, but the former Deloitte CEO and current commissioner of the WNBA is the newest director on Mickey D’s board. The Golden Arches announced today: […]
Cathy Engelbert’s Best (and Worst) Moments as Deloitte CEO, Ranked
A couple weeks ago we acknowledged exiting EY Chairman and CEO Mark Weinberger with a look back on some of his best moments as Benevolent Overlord of the Black and Yellow. Not sure if you heard but former Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert starts her new gig as WNBA commissioner today, giving us the perfect opportunity […]
The Lovefest For Ex-Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert Continues
Former Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert has been getting a lot of love lately. Last week, Glassdoor released its 2019 ranking of the top 100 CEOs in the U.S. based on anonymous employee reviews, and Engelbert was ranked 15th—the highest among the Big 4 CEOs and the second highest among women chief executives. This week, career […]
Top Big 4 CEO In Glassdoor’s CEO Rankings Is No Longer a Big 4 CEO
Glassdoor came out yesterday with its 2019 ranking of the top 100 CEOs in the U.S. based on anonymous employee reviews and feedback, and the results indicate that Cathy Engelbert must have been beloved by legions of Green Dotters across the nation. Engelbert, the first woman CEO of a Big 4 firm in the U.S. […]
Punit Renjen Gets Another Four Years as Deloitte Global CEO
Because June 1 is always New Year’s Day in the Deloitte universe, I woke up this morning to a shit-ton of Deloitte personnel news, so let’s get right to it. First, Deloitte Global CEO Punit Renjen was elected to sit in the big chair for four more years. His second term began today. It has […]
Outgoing Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert Is Going to Be Commissioner of the WNBA
For those of us wondering what Cathy Engelbert is going to do next once her term as Deloitte CEO ends next month, it looks like we have our answer. The WNBA announced today that it has hired Engelbert to be the league’s first-ever commissioner. She will take over on July 17, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver […]
No One Seems to Care That Deloitte Named Joe Ucuzoglu CEO
Is it me or does there seem to be absolutely no buzz about Joe Ucuzoglu being elected as the new CEO of Deloitte? Is it because people are still talking about yesterday’s guilty verdict in the trial of former KPMG partner David Middendorf? Or maybe because we’ve known unofficially since December that Ucuzoglu was going […]
Report: Deloitte’s Head of Audit Is Frontrunner to Succeed Cathy Engelbert as CEO
It has now become apparent that Cathy Engelbert won’t be serving a second four-year term as CEO of Deloitte. Michael Rapoport of the Wall Street Journal reported on Dec. 15 that Joseph Ucuzoglu, chairman and CEO of Deloitte’s audit practice, Deloitte & Touche, was nominated by the firm’s board of directors to succeed Engelbert once […]
Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert Is Still Talking About Her Teenage Son’s Fear of Robots
Our QOTD comes from Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert, who shared the stage with AT&T Business CEO Thaddeus Arroyo and CNN host Anderson Cooper a couple of weeks ago during the AT&T Business Summit in Dallas to discuss how to be an effective leader in a digital world. Cooper, who moderated the discussion, mentioned that people […]
Is Cathy Engelbert’s Time Almost Up As Deloitte CEO?
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Deloitte LLP partners were told in an email that Cathy Engelbert has not been renominated for a second four-year term as CEO of the Big 4 firm. The Journal wrote: Ms. Engelbert, the first woman to run one of the Big Four firms in the U.S., is three-plus years into […]
Deloitte US Will Definitely Not Practice Law, You Guys
Soon-to-be official Deloitte U.S. CEO Cathy Engelbert is sure making the rounds on the interview circuit these days. This is a good thing, as it allows everyone to get to know her before she begins her term next month. In an interview with Forbes contributor David Parnell, Chatty Cathy makes it clear Deloitte U.S. will […]
Deloitte’s Next CEO Is a Woman, Let’s All Give Them a Cookie
As we learned this morning, Deloitte is going all in on diversity and inclusion with the appointment of Cathy Engelbert as incoming CEO, effective March 11. This is, as we know, the first female CEO of a Big 4 firm in U.S. Not only is Cathy (obviously) not a white guy, she's not even really […]