Employees in 70 offices around this audit, tax and advisory services firm watched by webcast last September as its top officer, John Veihmeyer (hosting his first chairman’s Forum on Diversity), announced aggressive goals for promoting female professionals and people of color to the partnership by 2015. It was a clear declaration of the firm’s intent to advance the status of its multicultural employees, whose recruitment, mentoring, role in succession plans and, yes, promotion rates are currently tracked by an internal scorecard. championed by the firm’s two dedicated advisory boards (for women and diverse individuals) and its six diversity networks, women of color can expand their career horizons. Going forward, the firm plans to set objectives for appointing multicultural employees to senior manager and second partner roles on top 100 accounts.

Chairman & CEO John Veihmeyer
National Managing Partner, Diversity & Corporate Responsibility Kathy Hopinkah Hannan

At KPMG, multicultural women represent…
15% multicultural women
2% of corporate executives
8% of senior managers
8% of the top earners
16% of the company hires
12% of the company promotions
17% of the company losses
14% of participants in mentoring programs
22% of participants in affinity groups