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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

~143,000

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 all genders; people of different races and ethnicities; persons with disabilities; neurodivergent individuals; 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, collect data to measure our progress and strive to continuously improve. This approach is a key driver of our progress and we hold our leaders accountable for ensuring we have the most innovative and talented people in our industry.

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 committed to equal opportunity and a workplace free from bias. 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.

Collaborating with our clients

By fostering a culture where all our people feel a sense of belonging and that they are respected and empowered to do their best work, we can more effectively help our clients reinvent their businesses. We build inclusive and diverse teams because we believe they can create better, more innovative solutions that reflect the needs of our clients’ customers and stakeholders.

Collaborating with communities

We promote equality and foster employment and advancement for under-represented communities, both globally and locally, partnering to address specific challenges and advocate for change. Examples include:

Disability and neurodiversity Inclusion

We partner with the International Labour Organization Global Business and Disability Network to help enterprises achieve business success while simultaneously creating equal opportunities for people with disabilities. In The Disability Inclusion Imperative research report, developed with Disability:IN and the American Association of People with Disabilities, we reveal that in the past five years the business case for hiring persons with disabilities has become even stronger; further noting that companies that have led in disability inclusion have realized more revenue, net income and profit.

Racial and ethnic inclusion

In the U.S., we partnered with Lartique Creative to host impactful community events connecting 200+ founders and Accenture executives. We also partnered with TrueSeed to deliver a 16-week sales bootcamp for approximately 50 underrepresented founders, helping them refine their sales strategies and increase deal conversions.

LGBTIQ+ equality and inclusion

Accenture is a founding member of the Partnership for Global LGBTI Equality, a coalition of 22 leading multinational companies and six nonprofit organizations in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Gender

We help advance gender equality in the workplace with organizations like Catalyst and, since 2014, we’ve partnered with Girls Who Code on initiatives supporting young girls and women.

Learn more about Inclusion & Diversity at Accenture.