Every 18 months, Ernst & Young hosts leadership conferences for female and multicultural executives.

For multicultural employees of this financial services firm, mentoring and coaching are truly a way of life.  To help female staffers and employees of color develop their professional skills, E&Y’s Americas Accounts Rotation Committee places them in positions that will give them the experience to qualify for more challenging jobs down the road. To ensure that they receive ample opportunities, its guiding team of senior executives scans the committee’s ranks when filling partner rotations on major accounts. And with the assistance of the Executive Mentoring and Career Watch programs, multicultural staffers get corporate coaching and are notified when high-profile gigs become available. The whole process speeds up when employees are considered potential partner or principal material, so talented candidates can be sure they will get on the fast track. 

Multicultural Women: 17%

Multicultural Women Managers/Execs: 13%

Chief Diversity Officer: Billie Williamson

Hires who are multicultural women: 20%

Hires who are multicultural men: 16%

Multicultural women managers/execs: 13%

Multicultural men managers/execs: 13%

Top 20% earners who are multicultural women: 8%

Top 20% earners who are multicultural men: 12%

Multicultural women on board of directors: 0%

Offers formal compensation program to reward managers who specifically help multicultural women advance: NO

Rates managers on the number of multicultural women employees advancing: YES

Uses outside recruiter to focus on finding multicultural women candidates: YES

Offers support groups specifically for multicultural women: YES

Offers mentoring programs specifically geared toward multicultural women early in their careers: YES

Offers sponsorship program specifically geared toward multicultural women early in their careers: YES