Successfully adopting DEI practices in your firm can be challenging and slow moving to implement. Rest assured, wherever you are on your journey, you are not alone!
Where do Firms begin in developing and implementing a DEI program?
Are Firms doing enough to improve their diversity, equity and inclusion?
How are Firms navigating questions from potential candidates and prospective clients on DEI?
Join us for an in-depth exploration of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)!
Learn what DEI means in different parts of the world.
Hear the different views and perspectives from members across the MGI Network.
See what other member Firms are doing to instil a more intentional DEI culture.
Hear fellow members tips and insights regarding what you can do in your Firm.
Please come to this call with questions about DEI programs or feel free to send them in advance.
Our member panel
This session is brought to you by MGI’s Women Who Lead Group
Open to Everyone!
Chief Executive Officer, SAICA
Partner – CEO, Leadership and Performance Coach
MGI RAS, South Africa
Patricia is the co-founder and CEO of MGI RAS which is a member firm of MGI Worldwide. She is a strategic entrepreneurial accountant with commitment to people and organisations transformation. She is a Chartered Accountant (South Africa) and a Chartered Director (South Africa) with diverse experience in talent management, ESG (with specialisation in governance) Audit, IFRS and Quality assurance technical expertise. Patricia has discharged various senior and executive management roles. She has diverse exposure to both the private and public sectors and audit of United Nations’ organisations during her tenure at the AGSA. She further served as the Head of Transformation in her previous tenure as a partner of one of the global Firms. She is a vector performance and leadership coach, in line with her passion for helping organisations and people to grow responsibly in realising their potential in a sustainable manner. Her life motto is “Grow as I Grow”.
Audit Partner, MGI Assurance
Audit Partner
MGI Assurance, Curitiba, Brazil
Karin majored in Accounting Sciences from the Federal University of Paraná in 1990, and has built a successful career in the so-called “Big 4” audit firms over more than 18 years. She worked in Curitiba, São Paulo and Bangkok, gathering experience in auditing and in the capital markets area, specializing in US GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
She founded MGI Assurance Auditores Independentes in 2012 and has developed an audit and consulting practice with intense participation in projects of investment funds, mainly relating to credit rights as well as providing services to companies in various industries.
Pape & Co.
Recruiting and HR
Pape & Co., Munich, Germany
Barnes Wendling CPAs
HR Manager
Barnes Wendling CPAs, Ohio, USA