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In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen

HIGHLIGHTS: Julie Sweet - CEO of Accenture

In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen

Norges Bank Investment Management

In Good Company, Business, Norges Bank, Nicolai Tangen

4.8 • 186 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

We've curated a special 10-minute version of the podcast for those in a hurry. 

 

Here you can listen to the full episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/accenture-ceo-innovation-leadership-and-effective/id1614211565?i=1000683114532&l=nb


Join Nicolai Tangen in conversation with Julie Sweet, CEO and Chair of Accenture. In this engaging discussion, Sweet shares insights into leading one of the world's largest professional services companies with over 700,000 employees. She reveals how Accenture helps companies navigate digital transformation and AI adoption, discusses the importance of continuous learning, and explains her leadership philosophy of combining excellence, confidence, and humility. Sweet also offers valuable perspectives on effective communication through storytelling and shares personal insights from her journey from lawyer to CEO. Tune in!

In Good Company is hosted by Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management. New full episodes every Wednesday, and don't miss our Highlight episodes every Friday.


The production team for this episode includes Isabelle Karlsson and PLAN-B's Niklas Figenschau Johansen, Sebastian Langvik-Hansen and Pål Huuse. Background research was conducted by Isabelle Karlsson.



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0:00.0

Hi everybody, tune in to this short version of the podcast, which we do every Friday for the long version.

0:06.5

Tune in on Wednesdays.

0:08.9

Hi, everyone, I'm Nicola Atangan and today I'm in really good company with Judy Sweet, the CEO and chair of Accenture,

0:15.0

which is one of the world-largest and most influential professional services company.

0:19.8

And under her leadership, Accenture has led the way in digital transformation, innovation,

0:24.3

and helping businesses worldwide to harness the power of technology.

0:27.5

And we are lucky because in the fund, we own more than 1% of the company worth more than $2 billion.

0:33.9

So welcome, Judy.

0:34.9

Thank you for having me today.

0:36.4

Now, you employ more than 700,000

0:39.4

people, which is more people than in the whole of Oslo. And so how do you run a company like that?

0:44.9

With a lot of help. So I've got a great leadership team. And we have a really good way of

0:51.7

operating. So one of the things I first did when I became CEO was to actually change the way that we were organized

0:57.0

so that we could be much closer to our clients and our people, because as you scale,

1:01.8

it's really important that your leaders are close to your people.

1:06.1

Stupid question. What does Exenture actually do?

1:08.6

It's a great question.

1:09.8

So if you think about, we work for

1:14.6

governments and for companies, but sticking with a company for a moment. So if you think about a

1:18.8

company, we help our clients reinvent literally every part of their company using technology,

1:26.0

data, and AI to do one of two things, to either

1:29.8

grow more or to be more efficient.

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