Quotes from Julie Sweet

My dad painted cars for a living, and my mom graduated from college when I was a college freshman myself.

My dad painted cars for a living. He didn't graduate from high school.

We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where our people can be successful, both professionally and personally.

If you don't stay very close to clients and employees you're going to make the wrong decisions.

We're living in a world where clients constantly are saying to me, 'The most important thing you can do is to tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear.'

Clients want to work with us.

A comment is no longer a comment. You have to be really careful about what you say and the questions you ask.

Every year, I spend time to improve how I communicate.

When you come in as a new leader it's really important that people do get to know you and that you are constantly communicating.

There are three things that I have found were really critical in my first year: listening, prioritizing, and communicating. I don't think they're different for women. It's really about that first year as a CEO.

When you come in as a new leader, it's really important that people do get to know you and that you are constantly communicating. That's really hard in a big organization.

What's the greatest advice I give? Develop excellent communication skills.

It takes work to figure out how to bank on your phone, how to sign up for classes, how to connect in a community.

I think there is a general view that sustainability is really important. I do think it is a top priority. I don't know that it's the top priority.

We must understand what is on clients' minds and what their needs are, and we must also be close to our teams who are serving our clients. At day's end, it is all about delivering value to our clients as defined by them.

The new normal is continuous learning, and we look for people who demonstrate lots of different interests and really demonstrate curiosity.

People who come to Accenture want to be part of collaborative teams that are interesting and diverse. We think it's actually a real differentiator as we try to get people to come join us.

Companies that are successful, it starts with the CEO and starts with the CEO's priorities.

Blockchain should be used to address opportunities and problems that lack easier answers.

The U.S. may be behind on family-friendly benefits, but I see it's changing, because we're all facing a talent war.

What you want is to have women at the same pace as men doing tech immersion. It's not that every woman has to do it, but to close the gap, you need to have them do it at the same pace as men.

Digital is really two things. It refers to a set of technologies, everything from artificial intelligence to the use of e-commerce. But digital is really about a different way of working, of making decisions, of partnering and reaching your clients, and so it's also about how you do things.

Digital fluency can accelerate progress.

For large companies, they are looking at 2020 as the decade of delivery on the promise of digital and technology.