The starting point
The mandate came from the CEO down: inclusivity is core to who Accenture is. But the method didn’t match the ambition — teams self-assessed every office on a big Excel spreadsheet. It surfaced insights, but as Lisette Smyrnios puts it, “we were essentially self-grading — grading ourselves on a curve.” With ADA, the European Accessibility Act and more to reconcile, even agreeing one set of questions that made sense across the globe was a roadblock.