Even associations with companies as members are not immune.
AFCEA International, an organization whose goal is to bring government and industry executives together to share ideas, has stripped mentions of DEI from its website and dropped a community of interest group focused on women.
Booz Allen Hamilton, whose CEO Horatio Rozanski was once called a DEI champion, has dropped its DEI programs after President Trump’s executive orders.
First reported by Bloomberg, Booz Allen has disbanded its DEI organization. The firm will no longer have diversity goals as part of the plans for employees and executives.
The moves mark a sharp departure for Booz Allen, which over a decade ago made diversity across the company a priority.
In 2011, the company named the first woman to its senior leadership team. In 2012, it named its first woman to its board of directors.
Today, six of its 12 senior leaders are women. As are six of its 12 board members.
Officials at Booz Allen did not respond to a request for comment.
In a memo to employees, Accenture CEO Julie Sweet said the company was sunsetting global employee representation goals that it set in 2017 and updated in 2020.
Accenture also is ending career development programs for people from specific demographic groups. The company will pause submissions to outside diversity benchmarking surveys while it can evaluate any future participation.
Accenture will will continue to support its employee resource groups and networks, as well as publicly report its de ..
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