"Now chief commercial officer at Bank of New York (BNY), Wahlstrom's leap from Accenture partner to the C-suite of the oldest bank in the United States offers a study in modern leadership that blends vision, systems thinking, and comfort with uncertainty. Her career is defined by inflection points. She left Accenture at the height of her influence. She moved across continents more than once."
"Over time, her work shifted from solving siloed problems to understanding interdependence and how choices in one area increasingly shape outcomes in another. She could see her future with unusual clarity, including the shape of the work and the progression ahead. "I could see my next ten years at Accenture," Wahlstrom says. "And I just knew I was ready for the next thing-even though I couldn't quite see what that next thing was yet." That clarity signaled mastery, she says."
Cathinka Wahlstrom left Accenture after 26 years to become chief commercial officer at the Bank of New York (BNY) during a pandemic-era IPO. Her career features deliberate inflection points: international moves, declining roles for family reasons, and taking a private-equity-backed company public amid global crisis. At Accenture, responsibilities expanded from technical financial-services work to stewardship of major client relationships and cross-market leadership. Her approach emphasized systems thinking, recognizing interdependence and how choices in one area shape outcomes elsewhere. Clarity about future progression motivated a move toward vulnerability and growth rather than optimizing familiar expertise.
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