CEO Conversation with KPMG LLP

Join us on Friday, April 30, at 9:30 a.m. PDT/12:30 p.m. EDT, to hear how Chair and CEO Paul Knopp and Vice Chair, Human Resources Darren Burton leaned into the firm’s values to care for their people and maintain their trust.

This year marks the 14th consecutive year KPMG has celebrated its status among the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®. And despite the challenges presented by the pandemic, KPMG’s employee experience scores climbed to new heights thanks to specific leadership behaviors and meaningful employee programs.

As business travel collapsed and social distancing replaced client site visits, KPMG’s 33,000 employees and partners in the U.S., pivoted to 100% remote work and client care. As 2020 progressed and created additional social and economic challenges, KPMG’s leaders channeled the firm’s purpose, values and culture to support them through the crisis.  

Most striking about KPMG’s culture is how employees from groups most impacted by the pandemic, including women and parents, praised KPMG during this time: 88% of women at KPMG say it’s a great place to work, just 1 percentage point shy of how many men say the same (89%). And working parents scored the firm better this year on leadership qualities, compared to pre-pandemic times. 

It is remarkable that women, working parents, and the majority of KPMG’s employees reported having an exceptional experience at KPMG when the tensions of 2020 were stacked against them. So, how did KPMG do it?

About KPMG

KPMG operates in 146 countries and territories, and in 2020, employed close to 227,000 people, serving the needs of business, governments, public-sector agencies, not-for-profits, and through KPMG firms' audit and assurance practices, the capital markets.

In this session, you will learn how KPMG:

• Maintained equity in the way its people experienced the firm
• Supported its working parents and kept them engaged in a year when America was hit by a caregiving crisis
• Is accelerating its efforts to achieve its Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging vision

Featured Speakers

Paul Knopp	Darren H. Burton	Michael C. Bush
Chair & Chief Executive Officer	Vice Chair, Human Resources	Chief Executive Officer
KPMG LLP	KPMG LLP	Great Place to Work®

Featured Company

Paul Knopp	Darren Burton
Chair and Chief Executive Officer KPMG	Vice Chair, Human Resources KPMG

Michael C. Bush

Executive Chief Executive Officer Great Place to Work®