Quotes from Julie Sweet

Have the confidence to focus on uncharted territory. Take chances.

What's maybe being underestimated is that in every country in the world, there is innovation.

Innovation is the new competitive advantage.

I have an unwavering commitment to inclusion and diversity.

Through our Building Bridges dialogues at Accenture, where we have brought together people from diverse backgrounds to have sometimes difficult conversations, such as around race, I have experienced the power of storytelling to help people from diverse backgrounds understand each other.

An employee, even a very junior person, if they can articulately summarize a meeting, if they can put together a presentation and even emails that are really salient and to the point, they are so valued.

My job as a leader is not to put more stress into a system that is already stressed.

We believe our diversity makes us stronger, smarter, and more innovative, helping us better serve the needs of our clients, our people, and our communities.

What's important is that you build your company to be able to capture the opportunity as it comes.

I want to leave Accenture better than I found it. I am focused on investing our people, our community and effective diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Diversity is critical to our business outcomes.

We're not going to change overnight that we have a majority of all white male leaders.

In fact, blockchain has the potential to fundamentally change how we share information, buy and sell things, interact with government, prove our identity, and even verify the authenticity of everything - from the food we eat to the medicine we take to who we say we are.

My younger self was driven by the desire to be extremely successful.

I decided that I wanted to be a lawyer in eighth grade.

We don't always talk about that as a leadership quality. I think what's really important is having empathy, understanding the experiences of how someone is going to experience what you have to say.

Our focus has been on having Accenture be a place where you can be successful as an employee at work and also at home.

Employees are looking at us to both externally and internally represent the values that are important.