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Accenture reimagines leadership practices for the AI era
A new model is building stronger leaders equipped for speed, complexity, and constant change
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For companies trying to move at the speed of AI, the challenge is no longer leading through transformation—it’s leading through constant change.
Leaders must continually reassess their assumptions, make decisions amid uncertainty, and help their people adapt as the business evolves.
Accenture is redesigning how it develops leaders for this new reality—building a more data-informed approach to leadership development, succession planning and long-term leadership readiness.
Our approach combines executive coaching, cutting-edge assessments and psychometrics to reveal how our leaders think, decide and show up in their roles—then translates those insights into precisely targeted development that moves the needle.
STRONG ENGAGEMENT
90%
of senior leaders participated in the initial coaching sessions, signaling strong engagement and commitment to the transformation.
Leading from the top
For our top 60 senior leaders, spanning Global Management Committee members and the next layer of enterprise leadership, this takes the form of high-touch, individualized journeys combining one-to-one coaching with deep psychometric input and behavioral diagnostics, giving each leader a precise view of their effectiveness and how to evolve it as reinvention accelerates.
Reinventing leadership at scale
To scale this approach to our top 1,000+ senior leaders, we're building AI-enabled, agent-based coaching that uses the same leadership framework and underlying data to expand access to these insights. It delivers more ongoing, practical guidance as priorities shift and decisions need to happen in real time, while keeping human judgment central to how insights are applied in practice.
And because AI is reshaping every dimension of leadership, we’re embedding AI fluency at the core of our development agenda—going beyond literacy to hands-on capability. We are equipping leaders to harness AI as a decision-making tool, challenge assumptions with data, and lead their teams through AI-driven transformation with confidence.
This also deepens visibility into leadership capability across the organization, enabling more dynamic development and informed succession planning over time. Investing in our leaders in this way strengthens the leadership pipeline, building leaders who don’t just navigate change; they actively shape it.