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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

~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.

Collaborating with clients and communities

We work with our clients and communities to advance inclusion and diversity.

Clients

We build diverse and inclusive teams because they create better, more innovative solutions that reach more people and reflect the needs of our clients’ customers and stakeholders.

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:

To achieve mutual progress, we share strategies and practices, collaborate on programming and learning events, and celebrate key cultural observances together

Disability 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.
 

We partner with Disability:IN, a global network of over 500 corporations focused on expanding opportunities for people with disabilities across enterprises, lending our voice and expertise to multiple committees and work streams.

Racial and ethnic inclusion

We participate in Business for Inclusive Growth, a global CEO-led coalition of major companies that is fighting against inequalities of income and opportunity.
 

In the U.S., through our Black Founders Development Program, we invested in Praxis Labs, a software-as-a-service immersive learning platform that embeds equity and inclusion throughout the employee lifecycle equipping learners to show up as inclusive leaders in the workplace.

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.

The information provided on this site reflects our goals, progress and performance across our global operations during fiscal 2023 
(ended August 31, 2023), unless otherwise noted.