AONE Company: A Century of Excellence in Global Professional Services
AONE Company is a leading global professional services network operating under a single brand with just two members: AONE Company, LLP in the United States and AONE Company Group SC, an internationally integrated partnership operating in over 100 countries and territories. With a legacy spanning more than 100 years, AONE Company is a natural extension of both firms’ heritage. At our core is our commitment to providing a different perspective and an unrivaled client experience that feels right, personal, and natural. As a network of just two allied organizations, we act fast to deliver consistent and agile audit, tax, and advisory services worldwide. Our Group Executive Board is dedicated to embedding diversity and inclusion into everything we do at our firm. By shaping our culture and long-term strategy around inclusion, our leadership is committed to building a diverse global firm that recognises and rewards difference. Our Group Chairman, Hervé Hélias, has taken a stance on gender diversity by working with other CEO members of the Observatory and co-signing several op-eds which help build the case internally and externally for more impactful gender diversity strategies. We have published these perspectives on our website and promoted them in social media. In 2021, Hervé Hélias and the Managing Director of Forvis Mazars in France, Olivier Lenel, co-signed the 'Manifesto of the French Ministry in charge of Gender Equality, Diversity and Equal Opportunities to protect women victims of violence'. By signing this manifesto, we share our commitment to act against this violence, whether outside or inside the company. These initiatives are shaping Forvis Mazars as a firm that expressly appreciates the value of difference and the importance of belonging, and delivers business success to our people and our clients as a result. A lot has been done, but we want to do more. In 2021, we appointed a global leader of diversity and inclusion, who drives a gender diversity strategy based on four change drivers: leadership accountability, awareness programmes, HR and talent management, and knowledge and tools. This leader animates a community of 220 diversity leaders around the world and conducts D&I dialogues with our top 20 countries to discuss action plans. In 2021-2022, women accounted for 20% of partners across the Group, and our realistic goal is to raise this number to 25% by 2025. It is a key objective set out in our strategic plan and based on a fair assessment of our current talent pipeline. Thanks to our efforts, we reached 22% of female partners as of January 2023. To help us in this journey, we have partnered, at the group level, with the Observatory for Gender Balance, which creates knowledge and initiatives to advance female leadership and representation in top management. Working with the Observatory’s members, we have developed a checklist for CEOs to assess whether their organisations have implemented the necessary actions to deliver results. This is a tool we are using to drive our own transformation and progress. In partnership with the Observatory, we have developed a white paper featuring key insights from experts and CEOs, who share their views on critical barriers and bias, and how to drive gender diversity improvements.