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Racial and ethnic equality

We are taking action to support people from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds so everyone can thrive.

Taking meaningful action

In September 2020, our CEO and entire Global Management Committee reaffirmed our stand against racism and commitment to equality for all—with zero tolerance for discrimination, bigotry or hate of any kind—by announcing new actions to support racial and ethnic diversity.

We are steadily making progress by increasing our representation in our workforce; introducing mandatory training on identifying, speaking up and reporting racism; and collaborating with communities and other partners to promote equality, fight racism and create more opportunities for employment and advancement.

We are committed to taking action every day to support racial and ethnic equality. 

At the core of Accenture is our unwavering commitment to equality for all. We take a broad view of diversity, which includes the many different racial and ethnic backgrounds of our people around the world. We believe inclusion and diversity unleashes innovation and creates a culture where everyone feels they have equal opportunity.

Julie Sweet, Chair & CEO

Hear from our leaders

Our leaders share their perspectives and the actions we are taking to support racial and ethnic equality.

How companies can take action to advance racial and ethnic equality

Beck Bailey, Accenture’s Global Lead of Inclusion & Diversity, shares the actions we are taking to support racial and ethnic equality. Learn more.

Bridging the Black founders venture capital gap

Kathryn Ross, Lead – Accenture Ventures, Open Innovation, and Tom Lounibos, Lead – Global Ventures, share actions enterprises can take to achieve parity in venture capital funding. 

Ensuring Black talent thrives at Accenture

Andrew Pearce, Managing Director, shares advice on how to achieve transformational culture change. 

Actions Speak: Building an Inclusive Culture

In this podcast, Jimmy Etheredge, CEO of North America, Emmanuel Acho and others discuss building truly inclusive workplace cultures. 

Supporting business for inclusive growth (B4IG)

We are co-leading a coalition with 35 companies to fight inequalities.

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Comprehensive actions we're taking

Inside and outside of Accenture, we take action to create more opportunities for employment and advancement for our people from underrepresented communities.

Diverse employee networks

Employee resource groups based on race and ethnicity bring our people together for networking and professional development.

Learnings and trainings

Mandatory antiracism and unconscious bias trainings to help promote an inclusive workplace culture.

Empowering our people to speak up

Misconduct has no place at Accenture, and we empower our people to speak up safely and confidently. Read more.

Increasing our race and ethnicity representation

We set external goals to increase race and ethnicity representation by 2025 in our workforce overall and among managing directors in the U.S., U.K. and South Africa. 

Hear from our people

Hear from our people on the importance of diversity in the workplace and learn more about our commitment to creating a culture of equality for all.

Child of the Dawn

Brandon Ringham from Canada shares his personal journey of discovery being queer, Jewish and Indigenous. Watch now.

Working together: celebrating cultural diversity

See the strength in bringing people of various backgrounds and perspectives together to push the limits of innovation. Read more.

Black is…

This series features our people sharing their stories about what being Black means to them. Watch now.

Empower ethnic minority role models 2022

Learn about the Accenture people named on the Empower Ethnic Minority Role Model Lists in honor of their commitment to inclusion.

Awards & recognition

GO TO AWARDS & RECOGNITION
2022

No. 1 on Diversitylnc's Top 50 Companies for Diversity

RANKED ON

Top Employers Institute Certified Top Employers

In France, Italy, Poland and South Africa
2020

Responsible Business Champion for Race Equality

TOP 10 ON

Great Place to Work Best Companies to Work For

In Argentina, Asia, Brazil, France, India, Japan, Mexico, Philippines, U.K. and U.S.; also recognized in Greater China

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Our journey

What’s the power of diversity? Discover how our commitment to 774,000 people from a variety of cultures, beliefs and backgrounds makes us more innovative.

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