Accenture Appoints Karalee Close as Global Talent & Organization Lead to Help Power Clients’ Reinvention with Technology and Talent - Seite 2

“Accenture has an ambitious agenda to help companies continuously reinvent their future and enhance performance through technology and talent,” said Karalee Close. “In this era of rapid technological- and AI-enabled change, companies and societies urgently need to reimagine work, to define new approaches to talent, organization and change, and to take care of people in fundamentally different ways. I have always been committed to putting people at the center of change and am excited to play a key role in bringing Accenture’s deep technology capabilities together with new and innovative approaches to talent, human performance and leadership.”

Close received her Master of Business Administration from University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. In addition to leading Accenture’s Talent & Organization practice, Close will serve as a member of Accenture’s Global Management Committee and Accenture’s Global Strategy & Consulting group. She will be based out of Vancouver.

About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 742,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.