Accenture Women’s Programs
and Initiatives
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 80,000 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 executives with senior executive 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.—a global internal website connects women across the company with one another 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 around 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.
We also provide training for diversity awareness, as well as courses directed toward developing our women leaders. In the Developing High-Performing Women course, for example, female role models help managers evaluate requirements to reach the next stage in their careers. To date, more than 1000 women from 45 countries have participated in the program.
In our local offices, employee resource groups drive initiatives and programs to support women at the location and help them build strong networks, both within Accenture and with the broader community. There are local women’s networking groups in Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Ireland, Japan, Latin America, Norway, Sweden the United Kingdom, the United States and the Vaahini Community.