Lynne Doughtie, KPMG’s National Managing Partner for Advisory Services, had one goal when she entered the firm upon graduating with an accounting degree from Virginia Tech: she wanted to be an audit partner serving banking clients out of KPMG’s Richmond office.  But, ten years out, due to a major consolidation effort going on within the banking industry, that goal was becoming more elusive each day.  “That was a really difficult time for me because, within a two-year time period, one after the other, my banking clients were disappearing.  So by the time I was ready to get promoted to partner, I had no clients. That was a huge crossroads for me.” 

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