Future Leader Award
Sarah Duffy
Practice Lead, San Francisco
Slalom Consulting
There are many ways women get into the consulting profession, but Slalom Consulting's Sarah Duffy's might be one of the most unusual. "I got into consulting because I could speak Portuguese fluently," she says. "I studied abroad in Sao Paulo, Brazil my senior year of college and became fluent in Portuguese fairly quickly. At the end of that year, I took a job as translator for a large sugar mill that undertook a number of improvement initiatives—SAP implementation, manufacturing improvements and fleet optimization."
