Sarah Adams

Sarah is a managing director at Deloitte & Touche LLP and the global leader of Deloitte's IT Internal Audit practice with more than 25 years of audit, technology, operations, and IT risk and controls experience. For the first 12 years of her career, she held various operational roles within IT. As an auditor, she applies her knowledge of processes, risks, and controls to assist clients with establishing and strengthening the IT audit focus in their internal audit departments.

Sarah currently leads the Deloitte Agile Internal Audit (IA) initiative, developing the methodology and working with clients to transform their internal audit practices by applying agile techniques. She is actively working with multiple companies across industries to pilot Agile IA.

Before joining Deloitte Risk and Financial Advisory, Sarah served as the Global IT Audit director for a large media & entertainment company. Prior to that, she was an Internal Audit assistant vice president for a financial services company.

Sarah has developed and presented training programs for The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and ISACA, and presented on a variety of audit and technical topics at their conferences.