John McNally

This was said by my mom frequently. When I was born with a chest defect. To me it's a minor birth defect. It's part of me so I don't really think of it. But particularly when you're a very slender kid, it was very accentuated. I got pretty lucky because the way my defect worked was mostly cosmetic – nothing really structurally wrong. Where people with the same condition can have their heart shifted into their lungs, can have their zyphite(?) process - which is the part at the end of your breast bone – point in, so they have to remove it or shave it down because it can damage the sack around the heart. […] So I feel quite lucky. But it's something that you know and you're aware of as a kid and even through sports – so that was [my mom's] sense of reassurance. Then my brothers and I adopted it almost in a tremendously sarcastic way. Like 'Everyone's different! Everyone's the same!' But then in the professional world there is that really interesting dichotomy to it or paradox, that in our DNA – percentage wise it's so much the same and what we are is so uniquely close in terms of all humanity. Yet how you express things, how you experience things, even where you were born, influences you so you can be so very different, yet genetically be so much the same. I actually got lucky because I had a little time to think about this. That's why it kind of struck me. The work that I do here – we use a lot of data about people to create experiences [3:30-end … not as good as first part] Pablo Sanchez Casinello – 0114 – “Make your life a tribute to someone who deserves it” - 5 I want to analyze this sentence from two perspectives, from looking to the past and looking to the future. I really think that if I became what I am now in life, it's because I need to be very thankful to many people – my family, my parents, my grandfather, my grandmother, also my wife of course. They supported me every day. And because of how they live their lives, I am where I am right now. They gave me the opportunity to choose what I am in my life. So they are the ones who really put the heavy ground to allow me to build my house, to build my life right now. So I am very proud of what they have done before. And in terms of future, sometimes I think that what I do in life is nothing compared to what other people are doing right now around the world. We used to say that our work is tough, but this is nonsense. Real life and tough life is where people are doing tough things, in other countries, in other lines of work, this is really tough, not what we are doing. And I really like to think that the work we are doing in Accenture and especially in health and public services – I work in the health area – brings a little bit to help people to live in a better world. Those are the people that deserve my work. My work is a tribute to the people that really deserve a tribute. My family deserves a tribute – the people that allow me to be where I am now – and I want to make my life a tribute to them and to the people who is really fighting every day in the world. Because I am a privileged guy compared to how other people live. C: Can you tell me about someone that has made a particular impact on you? I really don't want to personalize one specific person. I'm just really proud about my dad, my mom, my grandparents. It's not just one people. I know how their lives are and how they grew up, their family, their sons. I know it's not an easy life for them. In Spain we had a civil war in the '40s so it was tough times in Spain those days. Nowadays if they were alive, my grandparents, I'm sure they would be proud of their grandsons. And now I'm a father, so I think this will be the most grateful feeling in your life – see how your grandsons became autonomous, lived their own lives. This is something that they don't achieve to see because they passed away many years ago – but it's something that I hope somewhere they are seeing that. This is to them: what you did in your lives... this is the outcome. It wasn't for nothing. Ingeborg Van Doorn – 0015 – “Mother and wife and making a difference” - 6 It's the unbalanced balance that a lot of working women including myself are struggling with. You want to have an impact at home because for me that's my primary task, but you also want to make a difference at work (there’s a little Accenture arrow on top of it) – and that just creates an unbalanced balance that you need to get in peace with, I think. Because there is no ideal balance in all of this. C: What has that experience been like for you? It's a struggle. I think that's the key thing. And that's also what I want to show and share with others because it is a struggle and it changes over time. If it's a baby, it's a completely different phase that you're in. If they're teenagers, you still have exactly the same problem but then they demand other things. So to make an impact again requires something different. So it's continuously requires you to rebalance