Debbie Rheder

Debbie is a C-Suite executive with over 30 years of experience in Ethics and Compliance, Talent and Culture, Corporate Governance and Finance Transformation. As a global business leader, she has a proven track record of designing innovative solutions to complex business issues and emerging risks, working collaboratively across organizations. Known as an authentic, inclusive and ethical leader, Debbie leverages her broad set of experiences across multiple industries and businesses to navigate brand and reputation risk, operational challenges and an ever-evolving talent landscape. As the Global Ethics Leader at Deloitte, she oversees the enterprise-wide ethics program focusing on promoting an ethical culture and a “speak up” environment for 450,000 employees in 100+ countries. She partners with business leaders across Deloitte to embed ethics in business decisions and across operations to align with Deloitte’s high ethical standards. The global ethics organization promotes a speak up culture, builds trust in the reporting channels, and cultivates inclusive collaboration across teams. Her function develops and leads education, awareness, outreach and communication of the global code of conduct, ethical principles and Deloitte shared values. She is responsible for ethical governance, working closely with the board, manages conduct risk and partners with Risk, Legal, Talent, Corporate Responsibility, and Purpose on shared topics. During her 23 years at Deloitte, Ms. Rheder served as the US Board Secretary, overseeing all aspects of corporate governance and leading retired partner affairs. She led Partner Matters for US Consulting with responsibility for succession, evaluation, compensation, promotions and hiring. She started in the strategy and operations practice with a focus on cost optimizations, ERP and point solution implementations, process redesigns, and other impact driven engagements. She began her career as an auditor. Ms. Rheder graduated from the University of Florida, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in accounting. She is a registered CPA and resides in Dallas, Texas with her husband and two children.