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Julie Sweet navigated a shaky fourth year as CEO of the professional services giant. Accenture announced plans to slash 19,000 jobs in March and in September forecast a conservative business outlook for fiscal 2024, citing weak IT spending from clients. Still, the Dublin-incorporated firm reported fourth-quarter revenue of $16 billion, an increase of 4% in U.S. dollars over the same period last year. To propel Accenture into the future, Sweet is betting big on AI: Accenture announced in June it would invest $3 billion in AI and double the number of employees working on AI to 80,000. In September, its venture capital arm made a strategic investment in enterprise generative AI company Writer, whose software Accenture has used internally since 2021. Outside of Accenture, Sweet serves as cochair of the Welcome.US CEO Council, which supports the resettlement, upskilling, and hiring of Afghan and Ukrainian refugees.

Courtesy of Accenture
  • Title
    Chair and CEO
  • Affiliation
    Accenture
  • Country/Territory
    U.S.
Julie Sweet navigated a shaky fourth year as CEO of the professional services giant. Accenture announced plans to slash 19,000 jobs in March and in September forecast a conservative business outlook for fiscal 2024, citing weak IT spending from clients. Still, the Dublin-incorporated firm reported fourth-quarter revenue of $16 billion, an increase of 4% in U.S. dollars over the same period last year. To propel Accenture into the future, Sweet is betting big on AI: Accenture announced in June it would invest $3 billion in AI and double the number of employees working on AI to 80,000. In September, its venture capital arm made a strategic investment in enterprise generative AI company Writer, whose software Accenture has used internally since 2021. Outside of Accenture, Sweet serves as cochair of the Welcome.US CEO Council, which supports the resettlement, upskilling, and hiring of Afghan and Ukrainian refugees.