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Julie Sweet‘ 92, CEO of Accenture, talks the future of consulting

Julie Sweet

Company: Accenture Revenue: US $ 74.2bn Employees: 779,000 Founded: 1989

Julie Sweet runs a company of nearly 800,000 people, which makes her training budget a public good with a P & L. Accenture dropped degree requirements for many roles, built apprenticeship pipelines that hire from community colleges rather than campuses and retrains its workforce continuously for AI. Her wager is that the social crisis of the decade is skills, and that the world’ s largest professional services firm should behave like its largest school.

44 October 2026