Beth Holmes talks to Jean Stephens, the woman at the helm of RSM International, about her role and the strategic direction of the network against the backdrop of an economic crisis.

For a woman who is in charge of an accountancy network with 90 individual member firms in 72 countries and a workforce of over 30,000 people, RSM International CEO Jean Stephens seems remarkably calm about the challenges of the current global economic climate. ‘We had good growth in 2008 of 18.2%, half from new members and half from existing members. That is regular ongoing growth development, so I’m very happy with that,’ she explains.

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