Sapient Receives Consulting Magazine’s 1st Annual Achievement Award for Excellence in Diversity
BOSTON — June 25, 2008 —Sapient (NASDAQ: SAPE) today announced that it has received an Achievement Award for Excellence in Diversity by Consulting magazine. The company was honored at a dinner ceremony held Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at the University Club of Chicago. Sapient’s Laurie MacLaren, vice president and Global Capacity Lead and Mary Lass Stewart, a director in the company’s People Success team, accepted the award on Sapient’s behalf.
“Many companies have formal programs set up to mandate diversity,” said MacLaren. “At Sapient, it’s not something we’re striving to attain—it is expected. Our commitment to diversity is rooted in our Core Values, which provide a common framework for people of different cultures, backgrounds, geographies and skills to come together and generate groundbreaking results for our clients.”
Sapient, which believes diversity is an essential component of its business model and a driving force behind its client teams’ success, was recognized by Consulting magazine for fostering a values-based culture that has engendered diversity across career stages. The organization’s commitment to treating all people with respect is a deeply ingrained aspect of its culture and one that ensures every Sapient person is treated the same, regardless of location, background, ethnicity or gender.
“The innate diversity within our tightly integrated teams of consultants, designers, strategists and developers helps us steer clear of the culture issues that many traditional large organizations encounter,” added Stewart. “We are proud that our numbers—39% of Sapient’s North American people at the manager level and above are minorities and 36% of the same group are women—reflect Sapient’s true culture of diversity.”
This year, Consulting recognized five firms at its 1st annual Achievement Awards for Excellence in Diversity. Joining Sapient among the 2008 honorees were A.T. Kearney, Deloitte Consulting, KPMG and The Mpower Group.
About Sapient
Sapient, a global services firm, operates two groups—Sapient Interactive and Sapient Consulting—that help clients compete, evolve and grow in an increasingly complex marketplace. Sapient Interactive provides brand and marketing strategy, award-winning creative work, web design and development and emerging media expertise. Sapient Consulting provides business and IT strategy, process and systems design, package implementation and custom development, as well as outsourcing services such as testing, maintenance and support.
Sapient’s passion for client success—evidenced by its ability to foster collaboration, drive innovation and solve challenging problems—is the subject of case studies on leadership and organizational behavior used by MBA students at both Harvard and Yale. Leading clients, including BP, Essent Energie, Hilton International, Janus, Sony Electronics and Verizon, rely on the company’s unique approach to drive growth and market momentum. Headquartered in Boston, Sapient operates across North America, Europe and India. For more information, please visit www.sapient.com.
About Consulting Magazine
Consulting magazine is the flagship publication of the consulting profession. The magazine features the latest information on consulting careers, thought leadership, and corporate strategies. The magazine’s annual features include The Top 25 Most Influential Consultants, and The Best Firms to Work For – which receives responses from over 10,000 individual consultants about their careers.
Consulting magazine organizes the twice annual Consulting Summit – the largest gatherings of consulting leadership in North America – in San Francisco in the spring and New York in the fall. It hosts award dinners as part of the Consulting magazine Achievement Awards series – including dinners honoring Women Leaders in Consulting, and Excellence in Diversity. It also serves the consulting profession through Webinars, its individually delivered online edition, Consulting magazine One on One, and its companion Web site, ConsultingMag.com.
The magazine is published eight times annually by Kennedy Information, the authority in the consulting space since 1970 providing a wide range of research and advisory services offerings.
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