Accenture’s Developing High Performing Women workshop provides female managers with career coaching, exposure to influential leaders and skill-building sessions; so far, 38% of past attendees have been promoted to senior manager.

Getting to mingle with their peers is just one of the things that draws female business leaders to the annual women’s leadership forums held in Silicon Valley and New York by this management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. The women also like that these events keep them current, addressing trends in technology and innovations in the market. At the office, it’s all about mentoring; senior female execs in the communications and high-tech operating group are guided by its leadership team, and those in the management consulting business help sponsor and coach female senior managers. The two-week Smith College Leadership Consortium offers top women senior managers sessions that illuminate new thinking about management practices and workplace strategies.

CEO: Pierre Nanterme

Chief HR Officer: Jill Smart

% of senior managers who are women: 33%

% of corporate executives who are women: 20%

% of promotions to manager, senior manager and corporate executive positions that went to women: 35%

% of the top 10% of the company’s earners who are women: 23%

% of corporate executives with profit-and-loss responsibility who are women: 16%

% of the executives running divisions with revenues of more than a billion dollars who are women: 0%

% of executives who report directly to the CEO who are women: 23%

% of the members of the board of directors who are women: 25%