LEVERAGING STRATEGIC ALLIANCES GFOA WOMEN’S CONFERENCE MARCH 7, 2018 Accenture announced today, June 14, 2017, that it will achieve a gender-balanced workforce, with 50 percent women and 50 percent men, by 2025. This is a big undertaking, and we have done research that we highlight each International Women’s Day to demonstrate how we might achieve these goals.

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Accenture research for iwd 2017/2018 Getting to equal: Accenture research for iwd 2017/2018 2017: What is impact of digital and technology on the advancement of women? 2018: What is effect of workplace culture on women’s advancement? Copyright © 2018 Accenture. All rights reserved.

2018 Survey: more than 22,ooo online interviews in 34 countries Sample: equally split between working women and working men Europe: Austria Denmark Finland France Germany Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Poland Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey UK Middle East: Saudi Arabia UAE Americas: Argentina Brazil Canada Mexico US United States DEMOGRAPHICS 710 724 Asia Pacific: Australia/New Zealand China (Greater) India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Singapore South Africa New for 2018: Added New Zealand, Poland and Turkey Copyright © 2018 Accenture. All rights reserved.

What we found Action in three categories changes the culture of the workplace: Bold Leadership: a diverse leadership team that sets, shares and measures equality targets openly Comprehensive Action: policies and practices that are family-friendly, support both genders and are bias-free in attracting and retaining people Empowering Environment: one that trusts employees, respects individuals and offers freedom to be creative and to train and work flexibly Copyright © 2018 Accenture. All rights reserved.

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Do you participate in a women’s network at your organization? WOMEN ON THE FAST-TRACK ARE MORE LIKELY TO PARTICIPATE IN WOMEN’S NETWORKS Fast-track women are almost twice as likely to participate in a women’s network 81% of women work at organizations without a women’s network Do you participate in a women’s network at your organization? 21% 12% Q41 Base = All women; Fast-track women = 128

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Women are more likely to be on the fast-track in organizations with at least one female senior leader Approximately what proportion of your organization’s senior leadership team (e.g., CEO, Managing Director, CFO, COO) are women? Proportion of women on the fast-track. Fast-track employees comprise a fifth of our study sample, typically reach manager level within five years and lead their peer group in terms of advancement in the workplace. ¹Caution: low base Copyright © 2018 Accenture. All rights reserved. Q13 Base = All women; One woman: 626; No women: 74

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Digital fluency accelerates closing the gender gap As part of our work, we invest in very young to get Girls That Code to start changes….DC Public Schools Partnerships in an “hour of code” Copyright © 2017 Accenture. All rights reserved.

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LEADERS EMBRACE PARTNERSHIPS Leaders more likely to partner Work with at least one private partner to get knowledge, guidance or information that feeds into their innovation activities 58% 45% Who they partner with Nonprofits 41.7% 25.4% Startups or new digital companies 39.6% 24.7% Crowdsourcing platform for ideas 39.6% 25.6% Innovation Leaders Everyone Else 14 © 2018 Accenture All rights reserved.

Interconnected and global Multi-player games…not unusual for teens…working with teams around the globe. Many of the workteams you work on have immigrants or other diverse populations on their teams…talk about economist from India…OBM…celebrate it…where are you from? Shrimp curry. “I’m from Cleveland” … experiences from India … Turns to head of Parliament…I’m from Cleveland…my son is at the Cleveland Clinic Turns to CP Party Leader…I’m from Cleveland…my brother is a mortgage banker from Maple Heights Turns to University President…I’m from Cleveland…my daughter is at Case Western Reserve university More need for common cultural approaches.

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