As Accenture joins the growing list of tech companies (Meta, Google, Amazon) ditching their #DEI programs, we can see clearly (as the numbers have told us for YEARS) the grift it was the whole time.
As the gutless fold under the slightest provocation, the curtains draw back from the show they were putting on and reveal they never really cared in the first place.
Frankly, those programs never moved the needle in a meaningful way and remind me of something I wrote 10 years ago when they started kicking them off:
“I’ve sat on multiple senior executive boards discussing the progression towards our targets in a room comprised entirely of middle aged, white men. Worse than that, two and three layers deep into the org charts the demographics looked exactly the same – and no amount of target setting is going to change that fact.”
The good thing is, whatever they do organizationally doesn’t affect what WE can do personally, and my commitment is to continue to endorse, sponsor, mentor, promote, and hire from as diverse a community as I can find.
Rant over, now back to work…