A Message from Leadership
At Deloitte, purpose is synonymous with how we work every day: It’s the thread that encompasses how we build trust, activate change, advise clients, and support community development. Since our founding, we’ve focused on different aspects of purpose embedded throughout our organization. In order to amplify our impact, we have formalized our purpose strategy across Deloitte to strengthen how we address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. Our purpose strategy has implications for the clients and communities we serve, as well as for our professionals and their personal purpose contributions. Today, more than ever, we’re seeing the need to increase our collective impact and to do our part in addressing some of the world’s most critical and complex societal issues.
Deloitte created the US Purpose Office, reporting directly to the US CEO, to underscore how important purpose is for us. Purpose can be a bit broad, so we continue to clearly communicate what purpose means to Deloitte and our professionals. We empower our people to pursue their passions at Deloitte and together, we continue to evolve and integrate purpose across our organization and all our decisions.
This report is not meant to be a comprehensive environmental, social, and governance (ESG) report but instead shares an overview of our US journey to date and where we expect it to take us (see the Deloitte Global 2022 Impact Report for Deloitte Global's ESG highlights and metrics). As we continue to build our programs and move forward, we know that we will need to further integrate purpose into our operations, strategies, and industry relationships to fully leverage its power. We are confident that by channeling our collective passions and skills, we can do much more within our own organization and to help our clients integrate sustainability across their organizations, further build trust in institutions, and advance equity across society.
This is the first US publication about our purpose efforts. As our work broadens, so will this report. We are committed to continually deepening our response to this work as well as our understanding of these issues, building on this information in coming years, and evolving how we connect the dots between the many strands of purpose.
