Deloitte and Touche Leadership Survey
Deloitte and Touche (D&T) is a major professional service company with over 80,000 employees providing assurance, and audit, tax and management consulting services worldwide. Deloitte and Touche has been a leader in moving women into significant leadership positions in the firm.
D&T wanted to learn more about how its managing partners viewed leadership opportunities within the organization. Working in collaboration with CGO, D&T designed a survey, administered in 1999, that allowed the firm to test some of its assumptions about why men and women were attracted to leadership roles and what barriers to such positions existed for each.
The survey also assessed the skill set of men and women partners as a means of not only planning for succession, but also for devising the kind of developmental opportunities that would enable partners to move into leadership positions