Exclusive Audit Leadership Panel · 2025

What do top audit leaders actually think?

We brought senior professionals from EY, KPMG, Grant Thornton and leading institutions into one room and asked the questions everyone is thinking but nobody is saying out loud.

6 Senior audit leaders
60+ Minutes of unscripted conversation
EY · KPMG · GT Big firms at the table
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EY, KPMG, Grant Thornton, VUB, ICHEC

Why this matters

The audit profession is at a turning point.

Firms are losing their best people. Clients are frustrated. AI is arriving fast. We asked the leaders living it.

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Hear from the big firms

Managing partners, senior managers, audit partners and professors.

We talk a lot about efficiency in audit but nobody is talking about why the best people keep leaving. This panel finally goes there.

Mathias Celis, Founder Alkmist & Researcher at Ghent University

The panel

6 leaders. One honest conversation.

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Eef Naesens
Managing Partner Assurance
EY
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Elien Horemans
Senior Manager Audit & Assurance
Grant Thornton
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Axel Jorion
Audit Partner HR & Planning
KPMG
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Diane Breesch
Professor Accounting & Auditing
VUB
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Grégory Schmidt
Head of Accountancy & Auditing
ICHEC
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Mathias Celis
Founder Alkmist & Researcher
Ghent University

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What is on the table

No fluff. Just the topics that matter.

These conversations happen in every audit firm but rarely in public. Until now.

Burnout & wellbeing
Talent attraction & retention
AI in the audit workflow
Finding meaning in the profession
Client collaboration challenges
The future of audit firms
What firms must change now
Work-life balance realities
Why juniors leave
Leadership vs. reality
Partner track pressure
Technology adoption barriers

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Whether you are a managing partner, senior manager, or curious junior, these insights will change how you think about the profession.