Lisa M. Ong from PriceWaterhouseCooper’s Office of Diversity joined us for this week’s episode of Life In Accounting, The Where Accountants Go podcast.
Career and so much more
We started this interview as we always do – discussing our guest’s career journey from the time they decided to become an accountant up to the present day. However, I got much more than I anticipated with Lisa. We get into some depth on diversity and how it is truly more than just numbers.
Lisa recounts the story of how she initially was interested in accounting because it is “the language of business.” She enjoyed learning how businesses worked and therefore audit seemed like it would be a good fit. After interviewing with all of the Big 4 firms, she chose to accept the offer from PwC because she felt it matched her interests the best.
Harness the power of wishing out loud
Lisa attributes many of the opportunities that she has been fortunate to have to the practice of “wishing out loud”. You’ll need to listen to the audio interview to get the full meaning of this concept, but it obviously has worked well for Lisa. She’s had a variety of opportunities with PwC and has thoroughly enjoyed her career path.
College credit for this podcast?
Lisa gets into enough depth on topics such as the Gardenswartz & Rowe Diversity Wheel and blindspots training that you’ll feel like you’ve attended a brief but interesting lecture. It’s clear that she truly is very knowledgeable in the area of diversity in the workplace. She shares PwC’s online resource on blindspots training with us as well – https://www.pwc.com/us/en/about-us/blind-spots.html
I hope you enjoy this episode! You can definitely tell Lisa has a passion for her role there at PwC.
Mark Goldman CPA
President – Where Accountants Go
www.WhereAccountantsGo.com
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