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Mark Interview 2 Schedule<br />

Pre-Crisis and Early Life<br />

• So firstly, something which I didn’t ask at all last time, a little bit on your childhood.<br />

What were you like as a child?<br />

• How did you react to authority when you were a child? Were you rebellious?<br />

• What sort of things fascinated you as a child?<br />

• Were you quite an academic child?<br />

• Do you remember how the decision was taken to go into consulting?<br />

• You mentioned that over the time at KPMG, you developed a reputation as a serious<br />

player in the industry.<br />

Persona<br />

Gender<br />

• After a while did you feel a need to act up to that reputation?<br />

• Did it necessitate having to put on a front occasionally?<br />

• Did you find yourself identifying with the façade you created to be that person at<br />

KPMG.<br />

• Describe the façade to me.<br />

• You mentioned this phrase “living a lie”. Obviously it’s a nice little axiom, but if you<br />

were going to summarise for me, what was the lie?<br />

• Again, this is a phrase that is used a lot, “its not really me”, and you say here “money<br />

and status, yeah they are great, but they are not really me.” Now what I’m curious<br />

about is how do you know its not you?<br />

• Would it be then fair to say that a lot of your story is about moving beyond<br />

convention?<br />

• Is it quite a masculinised environment?<br />

• How did that have an affect on you over the time?<br />

• A number of people I have spoken to have said that the transition away from their old<br />

life was a chance to contact the more feminine parts of themselves, parts that have<br />

been locked away in a corporate context. Does that resonate with you at all?<br />

Materialism<br />

• You mentioned that there was a shift away from being money focused to being more<br />

people-focused. Does that tie in?<br />

• Clearly that aspect of you that is people-focused and caring was a mismatch between<br />

you and the environment. Any other parts of you that you felt didn’t have an outlet at<br />

KPMG?<br />

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