People and culture

Grant Thornton has embarked on a comprehensive people and culture strategy with the goal of contributing to our global vision of empowered people providing bold leadership and distinctive client service worldwide. We are also focused on providing consistent people and culture practices that will enable member firms to realise the benefits of this vision.

Member firms have begun to benefit from the following initiatives in 2009 and will continue to do so in 2010 and beyond: 

• the Grant Thornton Leadership Institute, comprised of milestone programmes to support leadership development and other non technical skills for managers and partners 
• targeted learning provided by assurance and other practice groups to continue the development of our technical expertise 
• the development of our global employer brand, a long term strategy designed to attract, engage and retain the best people, which will undergo a phased implementation over the next three years 
• principles for a global talent mobility programme which will help ensure the right talent is present in the right locations at the right time to deliver distinctive client service.

 Continuing education
While the majority of technical training takes place within member firms, Grant Thornton makes a significant investment in ongoing training for audit staff in all member firms in the global audit methodology and in IFRS.

The Grant Thornton audit methodology is supported by state of the art technology. The training programme is technically rigorous and supports implementation throughout member firms so that the audit needs of both public interest and privately held companies can be met appropriately, regardless of their size or complexity.