Leadership Award
Chell SmithErnst & Young
It's hard to believe, but once upon a time, Chell Smith was in plastics. Well, she was the IT programming department of a plastics manufacturer. At that point of her career, Smith says she would get bored and change jobs every few years. She told an executive recruiter that there were two things she didn't want to do—work downtown and work for a consulting firm. Of course, she accepted a job doing both.
"I feel very lucky to have entered the consulting world when I did. It was a time of tremendous change being driven by technology, and a time where there was unprecedented need for talent," Smith says. "It meant that there was tremendous acceptance of anyone who had talent—regardless of gender, ethnicity, or anything else really. It was just about talent."
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