Monica Gogna, a partner and head of the financial institutions law group at EY, joined the Big Four firm in 2021 after spending three years as a partner at Dechert. She has also previously been a partner at Ropes & Gray and Pinsent Masons, and prior to that worked at Clifford Chance and Mayer Brown.

In the latest in a series on how senior lawyers cope with stress in both their work and personal lives, she explains the need to talk to both personal and professional connections about feelings, failures and experiences.