Path to Partnership

About Path to Partnership

The Path to Partnership podcast is an interview series where I, Steve Cole sit down and talk to Partners of accounting, legal and advisory firms about their individual career journey on how and why they became a Partner.

Publisher

Steve Cole

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Sept 2022

Latest episode

25 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

4 of 26 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   25 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   With Greg Travers Managing Partner of William Buck and Chair of the William Buck Group

   Managing Partner Greg Travers shares his journey to leadership at William Buck, offering insights on evolving partnership paths and the future of accounting.

2. 

   14 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   With Tracey Waring, a former Senior Partner at EY who spent 32 years with the firm across Australia and the UK

   Host [Host Name] interviews Tracey Waring, former EY Senior Partner, about her unconventional path to partnership and the human skills essential for leadership success.

3. 

   10 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   With Wayne Plummer- Head of Tax at newly formed, PE backed, Horizon Nexus Partners & Ex Senior Tax Partner at PWC

   In this episode, of the Path to Partnership, we sit down with Wayne Plummer, a long-time leader in the Australian tax profession, to discuss a career shaped by longevity, unexpected resilience, adaptability, and constant reinvention. Wayne reflects on his decades at PwC, where he built a diverse career across client advisory, technical leadership, and risk and quality roles. He explains how setting clear goals and continually changing focus kept his work engaging over the years. We also discuss the disruption that hit the profession in 2023 and how it forced a major career reset. Wayne shares what that period taught him about trust, loyalty, and adaptability and how navigating uncertainty ultimately strengthened his confidence for an unexpected next stage of his career. The conversation then turns to his move to Alvarez & Marsal and his new role as Head of Tax at Horizon Nexus Partners, the new entrant in the Australian professional services market who are financially backed by BGH. Wayne explains what attracted him to the opportunity to help build something new and how the firm offers an alternative to the traditional Big Four model. Along the way, Wayne shares insights on mentoring, the increasing complexity of the partner role, what aspiring partners should focus on to stand out, and why established partners shouldn’t feel pressure to achieve everything quickly.

Inside a recent episode

With Greg Travers Managing Partner of William Buck and Chair of the William Buck Group

Published 25 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I'm keen to get your thoughts on what's going on in the current market now. What are your thoughts around AI, how it's impacting clients, but how professional services firms are using it and implementing it? Yeah. Yeah, so AI is, it's a big one. It's both a threat and an opportunity, I would say, with it. I would suggest that no one has got it right. at this point in time, and most of us are a fair way away from having it right if we're all going to be quite genuine about it. There's things that you will read in the press, and then there's things that are really going on, and I think what's really going on, there's a lot still that we all need to figure out as to how this is going to play through. […]

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