Cathy Song

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Business Development Executive, Grant Thornton

Biography

Cathy Song is a business development executive managing Grant Thornton’s client accounts and relationships for audit, tax, and advisory services across the financial services, construction, real estate, hospitality, restaurants, higher education, and not-for-profit industries in the Metro D.C. area. She has 20 years of diversified experience in management consulting and commercial firms capturing, leading, and delivering complex, large scale initiatives focused on improving and transforming organizational and operational effectiveness and business performance across numerous organizations. Prior to Grant Thornton, she spent 13 years at EY and Booz Allen Hamilton in the advisory practice, and in the financial services industry at Freddie Mac and Nasdaq.

Song has successfully nurtured and grown multiple client relationships into long standing accounts with her client-centric mindset. She leverages her ability to listen to a client’s priorities and challenges, identify their purpose, and apply her cross functional expertise in strategy, people, finance, and technology to connect client needs with integrated and innovative service solutions. She has a proven track record for grasping an organization’s climate, navigating matrixed environments, collaborating effectively with key stakeholders, turning complex concepts into strategies and actionable plans, and developing value-add business partnerships to find a holistic solution with a path to consensus. Song approaches everything she does with a growth mindset for success.

She has a passion for supporting clients with their human capital strategies and people analytics to be successful in exceeding their organization’s mission, priorities, and goals. Her key expertise also includes: business transformation, strategic planning, account management, client relationship management, organizational assessments/design, strategic workforce planning and analytics, operating model design, human capital management strategies, program management, business process improvement, financial planning and analysis, financial systems implementation, internal controls/risk assessment, and executive group facilitation.