KPMG LLP Chief Diversity Officer Michele C. Meyer-Shipp said that achieving diversity and inclusion in the workplace “is a marathon, not a sprint,” noting that women—and men of color—have been leaning in for years, and now it is time for everyone else to lean in to meet them. She spoke during a public conversation with NYSSCPA President Jan C. Herringer at the Society’s Women’s Leadership Forum, held on Jan. 18 in Manhattan.  The NYSSCPA hosted the Forum, its first ever, as part of its effort to promote diversity and inclusion within the profession and effect change for future generations.

Seven years after the formation of the Private Company Council (PCC), the body has found itself transitioning into a new role, with less emphasis on its original purpose of developing private-company alternatives to U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), in favor of a more integrated involvement with the overall standards-setting process in support of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).