Barbara Duganier has a collaborative and engaging communication style, reflected during several chapters in her 44-year career: 23 years at Arthur Andersen as an auditor and consultant, where she served in multiple leadership positions, including as the chief financial officer for Andersen Worldwide; 10 years as a consulting partner and in multiple leadership positions at Accenture, including as the chief strategy officer for the outsourcing business (representing approximately half of the company’s revenues); a year in between the two as an independent consultant to Duke Energy North America prior to its merger; and a decade of board service. She has utilized her strategy development, risk management, and financial expertise during her years of board service, serving on nine boards in multiple facets of the energy industry (including the renewable energy sector) as well as in the consulting, distribution, EPC, and IT services sectors. She has chaired audit, compensation, ESG/enterprise risk, and nominating and governance committees, and has been the lead independent director of a private company during its sale to private equity, resulting in a significant premium to the shareholders. She has board leadership experience and served on key committees of three additional boards as they underwent the critical decision to sell the companies, achieving significant outcomes for the shareholders. She has corporate governance experience in both public companies and in private companies with different ownership structures, including pension funds, private equity, and ESOP ownership.She has been involved in CEO succession events on several boards, including membership on the CEO succession committee of a public company. She has taken corporate governance very seriously, furthering her expertise by becoming NACD Directorship Certified® (NACD.DC™) and by receiving her CERT Certificate in Cyber-Risk Oversight from the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. She also attended an NACD Master Class® on cybersecurity oversight to refresh her credentials in this area. As in her executive career, she has taken continuing education seriously throughout her board career as an NACD Board Leadership Fellow. She is a frequent and sought-after speaker on corporate governance issues—including important, evolving topics in the boardroom such as the energy transition—sharing insights on how she has provided leadership on these issues for her board companies in different venues.