E69: Maureen Davenport

In a pandemic world, how did KPMG successfully get through a virtual audit season? According to Maureen Davenport, it was crucial for KPMG’s leadership team to focus on taking care of their employees and to lead with empathy which often gets lost in leadership and in business.

In this episode, we welcome the US chief communications officer for one of the world’s leading professional services firms KPMG, Maureen Davenport. Maureen joined KPMG herself in 2019 after an 8-year stint at Fannie Mae where she also served as CCO and helped drive its reputation and business performance. Within one year of joining KPMG, Maureen was tasked with the challenge of an executive transition as KPMG selected a new US Chair and CEO in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.