Fortune· 333d ago· 1 min read
Throughout her life, Accenture CEO Julie Sweet hasn’t been afraid to throw out the playbook, and, in the age of AI, both she and her Fortune 500 clients are in the middle of another reinvention.
Going into her freshman year at Claremont McKenna College, Sweet, who grew up in a middle class Tustin, Calif. family, decided to study international relations and learn Chinese. Then, after a 17-year law career which saw her become the first woman partner at her firm, she took a leap to Accenture and tech consulting where she would eventually earn the top job—even though she knew nothing about technology at first.
As the rapid development of AI has upended the business world and has touched everything from the customer to the front office, Sweet, Accenture’s first woman CEO and chair of the board, says companies also have to reinvent themselves from top to bottom.
“In order to capture the…
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