Julie Boland: the EY leader in the middle of a ‘civil war’

When Julie Boland was picked last year to head EY’s US business, partners hoped she would end a period of infighting that had culminated in the exit of her sharp-elbowed predecessor, Kelly Grier.

Boland was “Switzerland”, they joked, a neutral party with a reputation for consensus-building and an almost preternatural niceness of the kind found only in the US Midwest.