ai-pocalypse AI is proving to be a gold mine for mega tech consultancy Accenture, but if staff can’t use it, then it’s time to pack up their desks. In its results for the 2025 fiscal year, which ended August 31, the consultancy shop said that it’s been investing in staff training to get employees up to speed. But if they …
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When Julie Sweet needed to announce the biggest organizational change in Accenture’s history to her workforce of more than 770,000 employees, she broke with decades of corporate tradition. Instead of crafting a company-wide memo, the CEO opted for something different: a direct video message that would reach employees across 120 countries and fundamentally reshape how massive corporations communicate during times …
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Throughout her life, Accenture CEO Julie Sweet hasn’t been afraid to throw out the playbook, and, in the age of AI, both she and her Fortune 500 clients are in the middle of another reinvention. Going into her freshman year at Claremont McKenna College, Sweet, who grew up in a middle class Tustin, Calif. family, decided to study international relations …
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Julie Sweet is one of the most powerful executives in the world, overseeing a 770,000-person workforce at consulting giant Accenture. In her role, she speaks to more Fortune 500 CEOs than almost anyone—dozens of companies pay Accenture $100 million-plus in a single quarter to help them solve their biggest problems—so she has her finger on the pulse of the biggest …
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You never know when your big break will come knocking. For Julie Sweet, it came just a month before she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the end of 2014, during a regular one-to-one with her boss—then-CEO of Accenture, Pierre Nanterme. “At the end of the meeting, he closes his notebook and he pushes it aside, and he says to …
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In the early hours of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, on Feb. 24, 2022, world leaders published statements denouncing Vladimir Putin’s aggression, and historic monuments around the world were lit up in blue and yellow, the colors of Ukraine’s flag. As the death toll began to climb, executives of companies with operations in Russia began debating whether it was ethical to …
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