Objective-driven logic helps us start with the end in mind, working backwards to identify value targets and build a broad plan to achieve the future state.

Dru Bailey

EY Americas Consulting Lead, EY DRIVE

Goal setter and roadmap creator. Identifier and communicator of value. Strategic and tactical transformation leader. Husband. Coach. Mentor. Tarheel.

Areas of focus

Dru is a Senior Manager in Ernst & Young LLP’s Finance Consulting practice. He has around 10 years of experience collaborating with clients to execute large-scale finance transformations. His primary focus areas include global operating model design, process improvement, and digitization to unlock value and better support scalable growth.  

As the EY Americas Consulting Lead for EY DRIVE, Dru works with world-class product designers, developers, managers and specialists to help teams identify, capture and communicate tailored value stories. He helps instill confidence in decision-makers, help ensuring they have a broad view of the costs and benefits to make the best, go-forward decision.  

Dru studied consulting and marketing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. He continues to be an avid Tarheel fan. 

How Dru is building a better working world

“I strive every day to put people at the center of everything I do, because people will always be the driving force of innovation, progress and business. Everyone is unique, with differing experiences, opinions, insights and goals when defining the future. Change can be challenging, but EY DRIVE helps me to work with teams and clients across the globe to successfully ease their appropriate transformation journey.”  

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