Jorge Corral of Accenture is a finalist in the Community Hero category for the 2019 Tech Titans awards. Category winners will be announced at an awards event on Friday, Aug. 23. For more information about the awards event, click here.
When Jorge Corral was tapped to lead the Dallas local office for Accenture in 2016, he moved his family from Denver and immediately began asking his team, “How do I get more involved in Dallas so that I can have the most impact?”
He quickly acclimated to the Dallas business community, which he found welcoming of new ideas and new voices.
Corral leads the global professional services company’s consulting business in the Southwest across retail, consumer products, airlines, automotive, and life sciences, helping companies drive top-line growth and improve profitability in the nine-state region. He is also the global lead for Accenture’s sourcing and procurement business.
What are the nominee’s contributions to the Dallas community?
Corral has a sharp business sense and is often described as warm, approachable, authentic and humble, embodying the traits of a servant leader.
He serves as a board member of the Dallas Regional Chamber (DRC); he’s on the board of directors for the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas (UWMD); he serves as a member of the Tomorrow’s Fund committee with the Dallas Regional Chamber, and he is a trustee with the Dallas Citizens Council.
He also inspires his team to get involved in the local community and champions innovation with partner organizations.
For years, Accenture mentors had been actively engaged in coaching nonprofit startups through the UWMD’s Social Innovation Accelerator (previously GroundFloor). But with Corral’s leadership and advocacy, Accenture’s Dallas office made a $500,000 investment — the largest corporate donation to the program — to support local not-for-profit innovators who are working to advance education, promote health, and reduce poverty.
He helped lead the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) Innovation Study conducted in partnership with Accenture, the UWMD, DRC, and Southern Methodist University to accelerate DFW’s innovation economy and strengthen its reputation as a hub for innovation.
What impact has the nominee had on the North Texas region?
Having grown up in an immigrant family, he believes it’s important to motivate youth, provide them with a chance at a good education and help them live out their full potential. He actively volunteers, mentors and is pleased to now able give back to some of the organizations that helped him earlier in his life.
He is the executive sponsor for Accenture’s partnership with the Dallas Mayor’s Intern Fellows Program — Accenture will host a dozen exemplary Dallas public high school students at interns over the summer as well as serving as the overall Curriculum Sponsor the program.
He regularly speaks on education, inclusion and diversity and innovation, and has served in a mentorship capacity and as panelist for non-profits and organizations like The Compelling Why and the Hispanic IT Executive Council (Dallas). He’s spoken to and mentored members of the DRC’s Young Professionals and participated as a guest speaker for UT Arlington’s Center for Mexican American Studies.
