Professional Services 2025: SWEET, JULIE

CEO of Fortune Global 500 firm Accenture since 2019 and its chair since 2021, Sweet is ranked No. 11 on Fortune’s 2025 list of the 100 Most Powerful People in Business. She’s also been on Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business list since 2016, ranking No. 2 for 2025.

Sweet leads Accenture’s 770,000-person global workforce from offices in Maryland and Arlington. She joined Accenture in 2010 as its general counsel and served as its North American CEO from 2015 to 2019. Prior to joining Accenture, Sweet was a partner with law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore.

Accenture’s fiscal 2024 revenue was $64.9 billion, including about $1.8 billion generated from AI, which Sweet has made central to the company’s growth strategy. In June, Sweet said Accenture would fold five business units — Strategy, Consulting, Song, Technology and Operations — into one: Reinvention Services, focused on developing solutions faster and embedding data and AI.

In January, Sweet was a speaker at the Consumer Technology Association’s CES conference and joined a panel at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, discussing AI’s potential in both instances.

A World Economic Forum trustee, Sweet is a board member and past chair of women’s advocacy nonprofit Catalyst.

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