Title: 10 CEOs Who Are Maximizing ROI AND Standing Up For Black Lives
Headings: 10 CEOs Who Are Maximizing ROI AND Standing Up For Black Lives
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10 CEOs Who Are Maximizing ROI AND Standing Up For Black Lives
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4. Mary Barra, General Motors
5. Ramon Laguarta, PepsiCo
6. Roger Ferguson, TIAA-CREF
7. Julie Sweet, Accenture
8. Kenneth Frazier, Merck
9. Marc Benioff, Salesforce
10. Josh Silverman, Etsy

Content: 7. Julie Sweet, Accenture
In September 2019, Accenture was named the No. 1 company on Refinitiv’s Diversity & Inclusion Index for the second consecutive year. Since 2015, the company has more than doubled the number of Black managing directors, from 31 to 80, and remains the only American professional services firm to publish its diversity statistics. The company continues to make strides in diversity. Examples include the presence of two Black board members (both women) and 22% of their independent board directors are Black. Additionally, Julie Sweet has been publicly committed to diversity for years. After the deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling in 2016, she traveled around the country holding a series of company-wide conversations about racial justice . In a recent note to employees, Sweet acknowledged the company has “much more to do” and said it would soon announce specific goals for increasing its percentage of Black and Latinx employees and managing directors (goals that it already has in regards to women). The company is also expanding upon its mandatory unconscious bias training with additional anti-racism education.