Our Women’s Programs

Accenture's commitment to attracting, retaining and advancing the women who work with us is critical to being a high-performance business and supports our broad commitment to an inclusive and diverse workplace. In March 2012, we introduced a new global women’s theme—Defining success. Your way.—because we know that the success of our 90,000 women around the globe is key to Accenture’s success and we are committed to supporting women’s professional goals and aspirations.

As more women pursue careers in business and technology, Accenture has created unique programs to support our women, including:

• Women's Mentoring Programs, which pair female leaders with Accenture leadership mentors, include virtual workshops and provide networking tips to help ensure the advancement of women at Accenture.

• Accenture Women’s Network—Defining success. Your way.—is a global internal website that connects women across the company and provides resources that can help them define their vision of success through education, tools and multimedia. The online forum offers women a place to share experiences, advice and insights.

• International Women’s Day has been observed at Accenture since 2001. Our celebrations give employees across the globe an opportunity to have conversations about how to achieve their professional and personal goals while defining success. Through Accenture’s activities and events at offices and client sites, International Women’s Day underscores our dedication to engaging the best people from diverse backgrounds to deliver high performance.

• Defining Success Forums are held quarterly by region and feature leaders sharing their personal approaches to managing various aspects of their career journey. Participants hear first-hand how colleagues from their region have defined success for themselves.

• Training and Education Programs are available to help our Accenture women develop as leaders and include:

  • Developing High Performing Women—aimed at top-performing managers who are at a critical point in shaping career goals and are focused on progression towards Accenture Leadership roles. Female role models help managers evaluate requirements to reach the next stage in their careers. To date, more than 1,000 women from 45 countries have participated in the program.

  • Women and Client Centricity—gives our women leaders the information, tools, practice opportunities and self-confidence to become client-centric leaders and more effective managers of people and our business.

  • Women and Negotiation module—participants are able to explore the differences, if any, in women’s approach to negotiation generally, discuss how those differences do and do not apply to Accenture women, and build strategies to help women maximize their effectiveness in each of their negotiation interactions.

  • Maximizing Performance—Women in Leadership— equips new women leaders with the knowledge of skills and behaviors needed to succeed in their careers.

• Employee Resource Groups in our local offices drive initiatives and programs to support women and help them build strong networks, both within Accenture and with the broader community. There are more than 85 local women’s networking groups across 32 countries.