Anna Schmidt Knight

Empowered executives and cross-functional teams to deliver enterprise-wide social impact and employee engagement programs addressing equity, trust, and sustainability.

• Drove shared value strategy and implementation of over $30 million in annual pro bono programming across Deloitte US businesses.
• Served as an advisor to Deloitte US Client Growth, Purpose, and Culture executives, and the Secretary of the firm's inaugural social impact governance committee.
• Designed, activated, and scaled social impact programming to enhance the 125,000+ talent experience and community engagement.
• Pro bono advisor for Deloitte's social sector consultancy, the Monitor Institute by Deloitte.
• Relationship owner for 20+ highest-profile Inclusion and Belonging nonprofit and professional association collaborators.

• Led Deloitte US's Advisory, Tax, and Consulting businesses' national pro bono and skills-based volunteering programs, orchestrating more than 1 million hours of professional services expertise across nonprofits in more than 100 US cities.

• Managed an onsite team of five consultants to support a $2.8 billion federal agency global procurement rollout, focused on a public-private sector business model transformation.
• Directed internal teams to enhance market growth and talent strategy for Deloitte client account, increasing revenue from $19 million to $35 million.

• Strategy and Operations consultant dedicated to supporting a team that provides procurement advisory services for a $2.8 billion contract.

• Led volunteer efforts of more than 200 staff for President Obama’s Young African Leaders Forum; drafted bureau reports for Secretary Clinton’s travel portfolio; developed congressional outreach correspondence process.

• Solicited major gifts and cultivated a portfolio of more than 100 national and international donors.
• Responsible for 11 percent growth in year-over-year direct mail fundraising, and a 20 percent increase in alumni engagement.
• Increased endowed and annual scholarship commitments; established a donor-student stewardship program.
• Planned and executed more than 50 development events, including local and national alumni conferences.