40% of KPMG employees belong to at least one of its six diversity networks, which boast 118 local chapters.

Women and minorities comprise 60% of the workforce at this audit, tax and advisory services firm, which employs a full-time team of diversity recruiters to seek out the best in the field. Plus, management may provide new hires with career counselors, coaches or mentors to help them refine their skills and prepare to enter the pipeline for senior positions. In the first three years of their employment, multi-cultural women may elect to join the new National Associate Development program, which gives employees with diverse backgrounds greater exposure to top accounts. Also important, the national diversity team helps monitor this effort each quarter by comparing the number of multicultural employees working on high-level assignments to the firm’s stated diversity goals. Last June, more than 600 members of management and the executive ranks came together for a Leadership Conference on Diversity; impressively, 90% of participants said later that the meeting helped them better understand the firm’s diversity priorities and devise strategic action plans.

Multicultural Women 15%
Chairman Timothy P. Flynn
National Managing Partner, Diversity & Corporate Social Responsibility Kathy Hannan

At KPMG, multicultural women represent…
2% of corporate executives
7% of senior managers
8% of the top earners
16% of the company hires
19% of the company losses
14% of participants in mentoring programs
15% of participants in career counseling programs

*Denotes a member of the Top 5 Best Companies for Multicultural Women