Inclusion & Diversity
Embracing diversity to drive innovation and reinvention
We foster a culture and a workplace where all our people can feel a sense of belonging, are respected, and are empowered to do their best work.
48%
of our global workforce are women, compared to our global goal of gender parity by 2025
~141,000
Allies in Action participants
#1
FTSE (formerly Refinitiv) Diversity and Inclusion Index (5th time in 7 years)
Our Inclusion & Diversity strategy
We are committed to helping all our people thrive, which includes advancing inclusion and diversity for women; people of different races and ethnicities; persons with disabilities; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) people; people from different cultures; people with different religious and faith-based traditions; and people from different age and social groups.
Our commitment
Our purpose is to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity. Our strategy is to deliver 360° value for all our stakeholders by helping them continuously reinvent. To drive reinvention, innovation must be at the forefront, which requires us to attract, develop and inspire top talent. Talent is one of our most important areas of competitive differentiation.
As part of our talent strategy, we hire and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives, and different lived experiences. These differences ensure that we have and attract the cognitive diversity to deliver a variety of perspectives, observations, and insights which are essential to drive the innovation needed to reinvent. To help achieve this diversity we set goals, share them publicly, and collect data to measure our progress, continuously improve, and hold our leaders accountable for ensuring we have the most innovative and talented people in our industry. This approach is a key driver of our progress.
We recognize that some people come to Accenture having faced obstacles as an aspect of their identity or lived experience. At Accenture, we are committed to harness these perspectives and ensure that all of our people have the opportunity to thrive and unlock their full potential. We are a meritocracy. Our intention is to foster a culture and a workplace in which all of our people feel a sense of belonging and are respected and empowered to do their best work and to create 360° value for all our stakeholders.
Inclusion and diversity begins with leadership
Our commitment starts with our Chair and CEO, our Board of Directors and our Global Management Committee.
Our Leadership Essentials set the expectation that our leaders consistently demonstrate their commitment to inclusion, diversity and equality, and continuously build their inclusive leadership skills.
45%
of our directors are from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds*
45%
are women, including our Chair and CEO Julie Sweet
*For reporting purposes, racial and ethnic diversity of our directors is based on self-reported United States EEO-1 categories. See our 2023 Proxy Statement for more information.
Transparency builds trust: our goals & progress
We set goals, share them publicly, and collect data to measure our progress, so we can continuously improve.
4 of 9
of our executive officers are women
~26%
women representation on Global Management Committee
Goals and progress
Gender equality1
Race and ethnicity1
- Accenture's gender equality and race and ethnicity data as of and for the period ended December 1, 2023, has been reviewed by an independent third-party accountant. Refer to the Independent Accountants' Review Report for more information. Gender metrics reflect people who have self-reported as binary in our enterprise management system. Metrics do not include Avanade, a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft that is majority-owned by Accenture and recent acquisitions.
- "Executives” comprises our managers, senior managers, associate directors, managing directors, senior managing directors and members of our
Global Management Committee.
- “Managing Directors” comprises our managing directors, senior managing directors and members of our Global Management Committee.
- New Hires reflect employees hired during the twelve months ended December 1, 2023, the twelve months ended December 1, 2022, and the eleven months ended December 1, 2021. In 2020, Accenture reported new hires for the twelve months ended December 31.
- For U.K. metrics, Black includes Black/Black British colleagues who have self-identified as being of African and Caribbean heritage or with dual heritage of White and Black African or White and Black Caribbean.
- For South Africa metrics, Coloured is a multiracial ethnic group native to Southern Africa who have ancestry from more than one of the various populations inhabiting the region, including Khoisan, Bantu, Afrikaner, Whites, Austronesian, East Asian or South Asian.