>> Hey welcome back everybody.
Jeff Frick here with theCUBE.
We're at the Hotel Nikko in downtown San Francisco,
International Women's Day.
Accenture's putting on a big event today.
It's called Getting to Equal, about 400 executives.
Packed house in the little conference area.
So we're excited to sit down with some
of the leadership team and talk about
some interesting research that Accenture's come out with.
And also just talk to some terrific guests
and we're excited by our first guest.
She's Jennifer Cabalquinto.
She's the CFO of the Golden State Warriors.
Jennifer, great to see you.
>> Thank you.
>> I'm joined by Mike Sutcliff.
He's a group chief executive for Accenture Digital.
Great to see you Mike.
>> Great to be hear.
>> Alright, so let's just jump in to it.
We're a little short on time and got a packed schedule.
But I want to jump in, Jennifer with you, in culture.
>> Yeah.
>> Talk about the culture at the Golden State Warriors.
I think it's such a phenomenal example that we can all see.
We can't see in lot's of other companies,
but with a professional sports franchise,
we can see what a top down culture change
when the change of management happened.
When, when >> Sure
>> Joe and Peter came in and how they've
been able to change the culture,
but then also drive that through all
the way down to the greatest operations.
>> Yeah, no we've really been fortunate.
Our ownership group has been so supportive.
And they really want us to succeed
and they gave us all the resources to do it.
And they've really brought that sort
of Silicon Valley leadership style and fast fail
and really make us push to be innovative and to grow.
I love, you know, they brought on Bob Myers as
our general manager for the basketball operation side.
And he always says that he recruits for character first.
And then tall 'cause you can't teach tall,
but character is really something that I think,
we as part of the whole organization really focuses on
is that, you know, it's that are we all willing to be a team
and have that sort of drive together.
>> Right.
>> And Joe and Peter embody that from the top down
and I think it really permeates.
And it's really our desire to be
innovative and to drive this business,
both on the basketball side and on the business side.
>> And what's interesting, I mean they're good guys,
but they're not doing it to be good guys,
they're doing it to win.
I mean, it's a competitive
business >> Sure.
>> that we can all watch the winners and losers.
It's a business decision for better business.
>> That's exactly right and you know,
they really do want to win.
They're competitive and every single person
I think in the organization is competitive.
But I think they want to win in the right way.
And I think you can see it in the way
that we approach both the basketball side
and the business side really wanting to, you know,
I think do, I think the community the best that we can.
I mean, we really want to reflect our community,
as well as our business partners and really succeed together
>> Right.
So Mike, you're out on the field.
You talk to a lot of customers.
I mean, do people get it?
Do people get that diversity of opinions, points of views,
teams, isn't just to do the right thing?
It's actually to drive better business outcomes?
>> I think they do.
I mean one of the reasons we were attracted
to work with the Warriors is they were looking
not just to change their game,
but to change the community that they were involved in.
We see lot's of clients with the same aspiration.
They're trying to figure out how to improve
the way the world works and lives.
And so if you want improve the way the world works
and lives, you got to have diversity of thought.
People with different educational backgrounds,
cultural backgrounds, different experiences
who can look at those really tough problems
and say there's a better way.
>> Right.
>> And that's where we think diversity brings powers.
That diversity of experience allowing
you to come up with new solutions.
>> So Jennifer, just from a woman's perspective
being in obviously a very male dominated world.
Of course, a lot of the tech companies
around here are as well,
how are you attracted to this industry?
You know, kind of, what was your experience going
in knowing that you were going to be in the minority
in terms of the executives
around the table? >> Right.
>> And how did you overcome?
>> You know, I am one of five children.
I have four brothers, two older, two younger.
And raised in Brooklyn.
I'd like to think that I've been competing
with boys my entire life.
And I think my environment sort of gave me a tough skin.
So I don't look at it in that lens.
I didn't approach the job thinking I'm the only woman,
or I'm one of a handful of women.
I really approached the job saying
I can make a difference in this organization
and to help drive and bring a new perspective
to the sports industry.
It was my first sports job I was out of entertainment space
and not really the sports entertainment world.
And I really thought that I could bring
a different perspective.
And I think, you know, the ownership saw the same thing.
And that's why I came aboard.
And I think not filtering anything that I do
with the lens of I'm a woman.
>> Right.
>> I think really makes a difference in terms
of how I approach the role and then how other people,
you know, sort of receive that.
>> Right.
So that said, for the gals that weren't raised
in Brooklyn with four brothers.
Fighting for food at the table probably
since you were a little kid.
You know, what advice would you give them?
I mean, is it just, there's some really great advice
coming out of the panel in terms of just focus on data,
focus on results, you know, raise your hand.
What advice would you give to, you know, say young women,
say a junior in college, a senior in college,
first years out, who want to get started,
and are attracted to a traditionally male dominated space?
>> Sure, I think one, don't self edit.
Like know you can succeed in that space.
Just because it's male dominated doesn't mean
that it needs to always be that way.
I also think you have to be great at what you do.
I mean it's performance first,
I think in any industry.
And so, when you can actually have the confidence
in your abilities, I think it starts to show through
and then people, you know, I think respond to that.
So I think perform really, really well.
Be deliberate about what you want.
Ask for what you want.
Set your rules.
You know, I think all of that is really important.
Find your voice.
>> Alright, well we could go on and on,
and I want to continue this later at
the San Antonio game this evening,
but we'll make that work out,
but we got to drop.
So I'll leave it there.
Jennifer, Mike, thanks for >> See you there.
>> taking a few minutes. >> Great to see you today.
>> Alright, I'm Jeff Frick,
we're at the Accenture International Women's Day
celebration in downtown San Francisco.
Thanks for watching.
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