Accenture Names 647 New Managing Directors and Senior Managing Directors
December 01 2016 - 5:01PM
Business Wire
Women account for a record 30 percent of
managing director promotions
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) has named 647 people to managing director
and senior managing director, including a record percentage of
women.
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“Each of these individuals has demonstrated leadership, passion
and energy in serving our clients, developing our people and
running our business,” said Pierre Nanterme, Accenture’s chairman
and CEO. “These promotions reflect our commitment to provide
our people with opportunities to develop and grow in their
careers.”
Women account for 30 percent of the newly promoted managing
directors, the largest percentage of women ever promoted to this
level at Accenture and up from 29 percent in 2015.
Of the combined managing directors and senior managing
directors, 29 percent are women – also a record and up from 28
percent in 2015.
“Diversity is absolutely essential to a high-performing,
talent-led organization, and I am very pleased that we continue to
make progress in gender diversity,” Nanterme added. “In addition to
advancing a record percentage of women to senior leadership again
this year, we recently surpassed our goal to reach 40 percent women
new hires worldwide by 2017.” With this milestone, the company has
more than 145,000 women at Accenture – more than one third of its
global workforce.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company,
providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy,
consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched
experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries
and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest
delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business
and technology to help clients improve their performance and create
sustainable value for their stakeholders. With approximately
384,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries,
Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and
lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com.
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