Julie Sweet

In the age of AI, Julie Sweet was faced with two simultaneous tasks: help 9,000 clients rewire their companies for new ways of working, and do the same at Accenture itself. Within her own business, Sweet collapsed five decades of organizational structure into a single integrated unit called Reinvention Services—a $923 million restructuring she described not as a cost-cutting exercise, but as a strategic imperative to deliver AI-powered solutions, faster and at greater scale. While Accenture is growing its workforce of more than 780,000 employees, the biggest reorganization in its history requires cutting staff it believes can’t be reskilled to match its changing needs. Sweet’s bet on a new Accenture is paying off: The company closed its fiscal year 2025 with $69.7 billion in revenue, up about 7%. Generative AI–related bookings totaled $5.9 billion in 2025, reflecting surging client demand that Sweet says shows no signs of slowing. Inside Accenture, she’s made the transformation just as concrete: As of early 2026, regular adoption of AI is a formal requirement for promotion, a policy Sweet frames as a natural evolution. Having whipped her own business into shape for the AI era, Sweet is better prepared to guide companies across industries through their own transformations.