Julia Sweet

Julie Sweet is the Chair and CEO of Accenture, a global professional services company with revenues exceeding $60 billion and more than 700,000 employees worldwide. She took the helm as CEO in 2019 and became Chair in 2021, making her one of the most prominent female CEOs of a Fortune Global 500 company. Under her leadership, Accenture has accelerated its pivot toward digital transformation, cloud, AI, and sustainability services, while executing an aggressive acquisition strategy to build out capabilities across data, analytics, and emerging technologies. Sweet joined Accenture in 2010 as General Counsel and was named CEO of Accenture North America in 2015, a role in which she significantly grew the business before ascending to the global CEO position. Her tenure has been marked by a strong emphasis on responsible business, inclusion and diversity, and reskilling the workforce for the digital age. Accenture's marketing and advertising services arm — Accenture Song (formerly Accenture Interactive) — is one of the world's largest creative and marketing transformation agencies, giving Sweet direct relevance to the advertising and marketing industry. Sweet is a frequent voice on topics including technology's role in business reinvention, the future of work, and corporate responsibility. She has been consistently recognized on lists of the world's most powerful businesswomen and influential executives.

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