Tamara Fields, Office Managing Director for Accenture in Austin, is responsible for bringing innovation to clients, recruiting and retaining top talent, and strengthening Accenture’s impact in the Austin community. As a business veteran with more than two decades of cross-industry, multilateral project management experience, Tamara helps better serve clients with creative, strategic, and transformative solutions.

In addition, she is also the Director of Operations for Accenture’s US South market unit, responsible for executing the business strategy and operational excellence to drive growth and efficiency and engaging and developing high-performing leaders across the 13-state region business.

She has extensive expertise in program and project management, business transformation, business process redesign, human capital management, finance, procurement, and commercial off-the-shelf and enterprise resource planning COTS/ERP software implementations. Fields is exceptionally well versed with large-scale, complex multi-million-dollar financial and procurement implementations. Tamara holds certification from the Information Technology Infrastructure Library, as a Project Management Professional (PMP), and as a solution architect.

Passionate about promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace, Fields serves as the US co-lead for Accenture’s women’s employee resource group and the inclusion and diversity lead for Accenture’s Austin office. In support of the company’s goal to achieve 50/50 gender balance by 2025, she advocates that Accenture’s rich diversity makes teams stronger - more creative, innovative, and competitive - helping Accenture to better serve clients and communities.

An Austin native and University of Texas (UT) at Austin graduate, Fields serves on the Red McCombs School of Business Advisory Council and is Accenture’s former executive recruiting sponsor for UT. She is a board member of the Texas Conference for Women, one of the largest women’s conferences in Texas. She is also a board member and on the financial executive committee for Paul Quinn College, a historically black college in Dallas. Fields serves as a board member for the Austin Chamber of Commerce and serves on the executive committee. She is a recipient of the Austin Chamber of Commerce’s Greater Austin Business Award for Executive Leadership. She was named the Texas Exes Black Alumni Network’s 2019 Legacy Alumnus of the Year and is a winner of Austin Business Journal’s 2019 Profiles in Power and the Central Texas chapter of the Texas Diversity Council’s 2018 DiversityFIRST awards. Fields was recently selected for Austin Business Journal’s “Texas 100” list for 2022, which identifies Texas-based business professionals with the highest potential for growth, disruption, or innovation in the coming year.

Fields is active in her local church community, leading initiatives to support disadvantaged youth and single mothers, and serves as a coach and mentor in and outside of Accenture, helping people find their voice and preparing them for career advancement.