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Let me start first by welcoming all of you,

our new hires, to PwC.

And you all know that joining PwC,

is a very competitive process.

So let me tell you about my background.

I joined PwC a little more than five years ago.

I came through an acquisition.

Before that I was working

for another consulting firm.

And before that I was in industry.

I'm an engineer by

training, so a little bit different.

And I've lived in

many different countries across Africa,

europe, Asia, also North America.

So as you can tell, I'm a global citizen.

I will tell you,

I can do the compare-and-contrast.

I know what good looks like.

I've been to many different places,

many different companies.

And I will tell you: PWC is

the best place to be.

Let's start with

why we're doing what we're doing.

This is what we call our purpose.

Building trust in society,

in solving important problems.

That purpose drives us

all of us across the firm.

The second thing is really

about the vision that we have,

which is around becoming one of

the leading professional services

firm in the world.

But when we say leading,

not saying the largest or the biggest one.

We're thinking about the most profitable one,

But also the one that creates

the best opportunities for

development for

employees, including all of you.

We have a set of values

that drive our day-to-day today.

We have to care about each other,

we have to work together,

we have to act with integrity,

and we have to make a difference.

And we try to do all of

this ensuring that

Not only we think about advisory,

but we think about the

other length of services.

We are one firm.

As many of you know, we rebuilt or advisory business

for PwC over the past 11 years.

We used a two-prong approach to do so.

First, we made a lot of acquisitions.

I mentioned that I came to

PwC myself through an acquisition.

In addition to that, we

hired a lot of people from the market.

Many people like you today.

Now we're moving into Advisory 2.0,

which is about bringing

all these capabilities together from strategy

to execution to help us

deliver a multi-competency solution.

What do we mean? It's Bringing

people from different backgrounds,

different talent together to be able to

solve most important product or clients.

In addition to that,

you might know what Trifecta is,

which is a combined consulting business

of the US,

Mexico, Japan, and China,

which I've had the privilege of leading.

Thinking about

all the potential opportunities

for global mobility, international deployment.

This is a place where you

can have a lot of fun.

First, we have to think about

how? How are we

supposed to think about our client problems.

The way we look at it is

really to make sure that we

bring the business part of our skills,

the technology part,

or obviously the experience part.

Cause when we bring all these three together,

which is what we call BXT,

it is a powerful combination of

skill sets that we can deliver to our clients.

But that's just how we need to think.

Let's talk about what it

is we have to deliver for our clients.

Integrated solutions

are key to us because they

bring the best of the firm together,

in combination, to solve

our clients' most critical problems.

Who needs to work together?

We need to make sure

that we have collaboration

because without

the right people at the table

to deliver the solutions, we'll not be

able to achieve the results

that we want to achieve.

Now it's very important for us

also to think about where we do the work.

We don't have to do all the work

we do today onshore.

We have a service delivery service today.

We also can use some third-party

labor to help us deliver

some of the work with skill sets

that may not have today and tomorrow.

And lastly, I would say

how we execute, it's extremely,

extremely important, because we are as

good as the last type

of results we deliver for our clients.

Flawless execution on every engagement

that we have is an imperative for us.

So here's my expectation, for all of you.

First, you have to know.

You'll have to know our product portfolio.

You'll have to know what is it we

do for clients and the solution to deliver.

The second thing is around collaboration.

There is an expectation across

advisory that we all work together.

The third thing: think about your own development.

Take responsibility for your career.

Think about the things that you want to

do that are really fun for you

and volunteer for them. Provide

your feedback, be innovative.

We are willing to listen.

You know, for all of you new hires.

I would say the bottom line is,

this is a fun place to be.

I love my job. I enjoy being

here and I'm hoping

that it will be the same for all of you.

So take the time to do great work,

to have great experiences, to

build great

relationships with your colleagues,

but most importantly, have fun.

This is a fun place to be.