LEARN HOW OUR EMPLOYEES GIVE BACK

Accenture people regularly volunteer with OzHarvest to cook meals and help collect and distribute food to the community. Accenture volunteers are pictured with OzHarvest CEO and Founder, Ronnie Kahn (second from left).

From our Skills to Succeed initiative to our efforts to drive sustainable economic growth with our people, clients and suppliers, we take thoughtful actions to bring positive change, for today and for the future.

SKILLS TO SUCCEED

ENVIRONMENT

OUR PEOPLE

We have a vision to improve the way the world works and lives, and our people help deliver this vision.

At Accenture, we call it Corporate Citizenship. Corporate Citizenship is central to our vision to improve the way the world works and lives, while reflecting our core values. Everything we do comes to life through our people.

DRESS FOR SUCCESS“My advice to women who find themselves unemployed is to never give up! Keep learning and searching for work in places you wouldn’t normally look.” Sylvia participated in Careers Support Program workshops at Dress for Success Sydney

AIME (AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS MENTORING EXPERIENCE)As their Year 12 National Partner, we support AIME to positively engage and equip Year 12 students across Australia with valuable skills and the belief and confidence to finish school and transition into further education, training or employment.

THE BEACON FOUNDATION“I started today with very little knowledge about approaching a job but now I feel that I am confident with applying and pursuing a career path.” A participant of The Beacon Foundation’s High Impact Program Work Readiness workshop run by Accenture Employees.

GOOD RETURNThe Accenture Australia Foundation, in collaboration with Good Return, developed the Skills for Life project in 2009. Since this time, over 10,000 people living in the Philippines, Indonesia,Cambodia and Nepal have been quipped with skills in financial literacy and received livelihood training to further their business skills and help their business to succeed.

THE SMITH FAMILY“Following the workshop, I’ve revamped my cover letter and resume, and am attending more interviews for jobs that I’m very hopeful of getting.” A participant of the Navigating the Job Market workshop run by Accenture Employees

WEAR FOR SUCCESSAccenture undertook a project on a pro bono basis to enhance the ‘Online Reporting and Booking Tool’ at Wear for Success, following our implementation of the tool in 2014. Wear for Success can now better manage participant bookings, administration and reporting processes, seeing an increase in efficiency and effectiveness in how client information is captured and used.

SKILLS TO SUCCEEDAccenture believes having the right skills to open doors to meaningful, lasting employment or business ownership is critical. Accenture’s Skills to Succeed program aims to equip more than 3 million people globally with skills to get a job or build a business by 2020, and together with our strategic non-profit partners we are well on our way!

Accenture in Australia and New Zealand has recently launched the Skills to Succeed Academy. The Skills to Succeed Academy is a free, online learning program that helps address youth unemployment by building crucial skills and confidence of young jobseekers. It’s suitable for people in metropolitan, regional and remote areas, and is designed to provide young people facing challenges of entering the workforce with relevant and practical skills.

Employees at Accenture can volunteer and fundraise for a range of non-profit organisations that align with Skills to Succeed, the Environment, Digital and STEM, health, plus much more. All Accenture permanent employees have 7.5 hours of paid volunteering leave each year.

MANY RIVERSTo support their Mentoring Program, Accenture built a technology platform to capture mentor and business owner data, enabling Many Rivers to scale the program and support strong and effective mentoring relationships.

OZ HARVEST (NOURISH PATHWAY)We support Nourish to equip participants with a range of skills including basic cooking skills, nutrition, food safety, kitchen hygiene, communication and teamwork skills, resume writing and job interview preparation, which leads to a nationally recognised qualification in the hospitality industry.

Globally, managing our energy use helped make 2015 the most energy-efficient year in our company’s history!

Since the outset of our energy management programs in 2007, the collective electricity efficiency of our offices around the globe has improved by more than 28 percent.

The Sydney Accenture office uses a black water treatment plant that transforms building waste water into clean, recycled water for toilets and site irrigation.

The Sydney Accenture office occupies a 6-Star Green Star Rating from the Green Building Council of Australia. The Green Star accommodation provides significant environmental benefits, including reduced water consumption mentioned above as well as heating, cooling and lighting efficiencies.

Employees cook healthy meals with quality food that would otherwise go to landfill with nonprofit organisations, OzHarvest, in Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney and at FareShare in Melbourne.

Through the

over the past four years, participants from around the world have avoided more than 11,000 domestic or international flights in a6 week timeframe.

Our Environment Action Group’s motto is

‘We saved the world today’

Did you know…Accenture’s exterior signage at our Sydney office is powered by renewable sources?

More than 250 employees together contributed over 1,000 hours volunteering to improve the environment in 2015.

Travel SmartChallenge

of the team in Canberra planted trees with nonprofit organisation, Greening Australia.

ENVIRONMENTLeveraging the power of our people and the digital world is key to achieving our environmental goals for 2020 and helping to ensure a better future for our planet. Here are some Environmental based facts about Accenture:

Increased the number of WOMEN NEW HIRES to 40% exceeding our goal for 2017 already!

Globally, Accenture joined 11 other companies in 2015 as founding members of the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) global coalition to advance LGBTI workplace equality around the world. As a founding member, Accenture will share best practices and help to amplify the business case for LGBTI equality in the workplace.

Accenture became one of 11 major international companies to sign the newly created International Labour Organisation (ILO) Global Business and Disability Network Charter. The Charter expresses our commitment to promoting and including persons with disabilities throughout our operations.

We introduced The Greater You, which is a movement that encourages us to look after ourselves and each other. It’s an opportunity for people to connect and be better for it—inspired, energised and motivated in our workplace.

WomenNEW HIRES40% increase

LGBTI equality

8 years

Promoting and including persons with disabilities

Each month, Accenture Inclusion and Diversity in Australia and New Zealand communicates to the company about key cultural days that are taking place that month.

Each May, our offices in Australia and around the world celebrate United Nations’ World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development.

PrideAtAccenture ANZ, which is the LGBTI Network in Australia and New Zealand, held a number of informal events throughout the year to engage employees who identify as LGBTI, as well as those who support the group as an ‘LGBTI Ally’.

We are a AWEI Top 10 employerof choice for LGBTI in Australia

We have a strong Mental Health Ally Network with regular training sessions available for employees to become an Ally.

We are committed to being an inclusive

workplace for all of our people.

50% of the leadership in Australia and New Zealand are female

We are proud to be recognised as a

WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality

listed as aFORTUNE’s 100 BEST COMPANIES TO WORK FOR

OUR PEOPLEIn pursuit of our vision of improving the way the world works and lives, we start by changing the way our people work and live. This means going beyond current industry workplace best practices and creating the next practices in learning and development, inclusion and diversity and the employee experience.

Our diversity makes Accenture smarter and more innovative. We have 4 Inclusion & Diversity global priorities: women; persons with disabilities and cross cultural diversity; and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI).

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialised skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions—underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network—Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With approximately 384,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com.