Managing Partner, Deloitte

Jackie Henry MBE is managing partner for people and purpose at Deloitte and the lead partner for Northern Ireland.

Since stepping into her new role in May 2021, Jackie has been providing strong leadership of Deloitte’s UK people strategy and purpose agenda, and focuses on inclusion and wellbeing. She has spent her career with Deloitte and started out in the Belfast office, her hometown, 34 years ago.
For the past ten years she been lead partner for the Deloitte Northern Ireland practice. Under her leadership, the practice has grown from 80 people to over 1,300 with plans to double again. Later this year they will be moving into the historic Ewart building at the heart of the Linen Quarter.

In 2017, she was honoured with an MBE for services to the economy – including setting up the Belfast Delivery Centre and the creation of Deloitte’s BrightStart Degree and Graduate academy programmes. In 2021 she received an honorary doctorate from Ulster University in recognition of the key role has played in the economic prosperity and growth of Northern Ireland, and for her advocacy of diversity, inclusion and social mobility. In 2023 she was recognised as the Northern Ireland Business Woman of the Year.

Jackie’s commitment to diversity, inclusion and social mobility has been a focus throughout her career, and in 2019 she ranked in the ‘OUTstanding 50 Ally Executives List’ which highlighted the non-LGBT+ executives who are outspoken in developing and supporting their diverse workforces.

Jackie is inspired daily by her family, her husband and three children, and she credits her late-father for teaching her about business with his corner shop in Belfast.