Driving change with Michelle Lim from PwC

Welcome to Episode Three of the 180DC Podcast!

This week, we touched base with Michelle Lim, a current Senior Consultant at PwC Australia, who was finishing up her time at Accenture when we shot the episode.

Michelle’s background exemplifies diversity and transformation; she talks about her time as a dancer, how she transitioned into neuroscience and psychology at the University of Sydney, and how she crafted her career in the Risk Strategy and Technology team as a KPMG graduate. Our discussion delves into the importance of diversifying one’s experiences during university, how to acclimate into new and challenging roles and why it’s important to explore passion projects outside the workplace. Michelle notes that meeting new people and forging strong relationships should continue long after we graduate, so we explore Michelle’s time at both KPMG and Accenture in relation to this in more depth. As always, we conclude with a wildcard question where we ask Michelle how it felt to meet ex-Prime Minister Julia Gillard as an Accenture employee.

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Timestamps:

0:00-0:53  Introduction to the episode + Acknowledgement of the country

0:54-2:55  Guest introduction and background 

2:56-5:54  Michelle's life before consulting and uni as a professional dancer

5:55-10:59  Importance of building out your experiences during university

11:00-15:00  Michelle's move from KPMG to Accenture and what changed

15:01-21:31  Expanding one's reach through organisation and company extracurriculars

21:32-23:00  Final Reeling question: How Michelle's experience was meeting Julia Gillard

23:01-24:44  Outgoing advice from Michelle

24:45-25:37  Outro

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