At Accenture, our people make the difference in delivering high-performance solutions to our clients and in the communities where we live and work. Our robust approach to inclusion and diversity is anchored by innovative initiatives that support all of our people. Highlights include: National interest groups enable colleagues of similar backgrounds to build a community and gain valuable skills and information. We have interest groups across our US offices for: Abilities Access, African American, American Indian, Asian Pacific American, Experienced Hire, Gay & Lesbian, Hispanic American, Interfaith, Men, Military, Multicultural*, Work/Life Strategy, and Women. Learn how the African-American Networking Group helped Regenia Sanders develop her network at Accenture. Mentoring programs provide opportunity for candid dialogue and guidance on career issues for women and ethnic minority professionals. Women’s initiatives help Accenture achieve our goal of attracting, retaining, and advancing women employees. Learn more about Accenture’s women’s initiatives and why Working Mother has acknowledged, for five consecutive years, this focus on the professional and personal success of women. Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender programs include a GLBT employee networking group, extensive diversity training that includes GLBT workplace topics, and long-standing employee benefits for same-sex domestic partners. Learn how Denise Attarian has been able to thrive as a programmer, mother and lesbian at Accenture Technology Solutions. Our diversity recruiting initiatives help ensure we attract top talent. We have relationships with national minority and women organizations; recruit at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic-Serving Institutions; and offer a series of scholarships for diverse junior/community college students. Our supplier diversity initiative provides qualified and certified women and other diverse suppliers equal opportunity to participate in Accenture’s procurement sourcing process. Learn more. *General Multicultural interest groups have been created for smaller offices that do not currently have critical mass to form one of the other groups.