Phillip Mazzie
Managing Partner, EY San Francisco office
EY
San Francisco, CA USA
“Being willing to step out of your comfort zone and learn is tremendously important.”
EY
San Francisco, CA USA
“Being willing to step out of your comfort zone and learn is tremendously important.”
Managing Partner, EY San Francisco office
I'm the face of EY locally, both externally with our clients and internally our people, driving their engagement.
Although there’s no such thing a as typical day for me, the commonality across all my days is connecting with people. Despite being an introvert, I find I enjoy and even feel energized through interacting with people – often in a sales or a coaching capacity or some combination of those two. I’m often addressing challenges for clients and people. I’m always asking, “How can I help?” And I’m sure to follow through to build credibility with them.
Here's the first step for high school students
Find people in the profession and make an effort to discover what they like and don’t like about what they do every day. You’ll get a real understanding of the profession this way.
"My parents really wanted me to be an engineer or a doctor."