Ellyn Shook, Chief Leadership & Human Resources Officer, Accenture Bio Image

Ellyn Shook, Chief Leadership & Human Resources Officer, Accenture

Ellyn Shook is Accenture’s chief leadership & human resources officer, responsible for helping the nearly 509,000 people of Accenture succeed both professionally and personally. Her global team of HR leaders and experts is re-imagining leadership and talent practices to create the most truly human work environment in the digital age, fueling Accenture’s own digital transformation, differentiation in the market, and ability to improve the way the world works and lives.

A member of Accenture’s Global Management Committee and Investment Committee, Ellyn is a strong advocate for inclusion and diversity and Accenture has been widely recognized externally as an employer of choice and for its diversity efforts.

A recognized thought leader and author on the topics of future of work and inclusion and diversity, Ellyn is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shaper Community Foundation Board, the Women’s Leadership Board of the Women and Public Policy program at Harvard’s Kennedy School, and the steering committee of Paradigm for Parity. She also serves on the HR Policy Association’s Board of Directors and is an active member of the HR50 division of World50.