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The rise in machine intelligence highlights how important it is for businesses to focus on the needs and aspirations of their customers and employees, seeing them as people first and foremost.

Errol Gardner

EY Global Vice Chair – Consulting

Helping clients embrace disruption to drive change. Passionate about inclusion and mentoring. Avid Manchester United fan.

Errol leads EY Global Consulting with over 100,000 professionals worldwide. In this role, he advises clients on transforming businesses, enabled by technology and data, with a human-centered approach. 

He joined EY as a partner in 2009 and has held several leadership positions, including the EY Global Leader for Technology Consulting. 

Errol has 30 years of professional services experience, and has served clients in oil and gas, power and utilities, and has focused on banking and insurance in recent years.  

He is passionate about diversity, equity and inclusion, and co-chairs EY’s Global Social Equity Taskforce (GSET), to raise consciousness on social equity inside and outside of EY. He is a member of the Executive Leadership Council, an organization committed to increasing the number of C-suite Black executives on corporate boards.

Errol is an Associated Chartered Accountant (ACA) and holds a BA in Industrial Economics from the University of Nottingham, UK.

How Errol is building a better working world

“So many organizations are acknowledging the need to change and how critical this is for them to continue to operate into the future. I lead a team that is focused on building a better working world by transforming businesses through the power of people, technology and innovation. The key to this is hiring, developing and empowering a diverse group of people within the EY organization, building solutions and assets with our ecosystem of partners. Working in this way will enable us to be able to support organizations who are ready to embrace the need to change and help them to make it happen.”

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