Jessica Roy is a Detroit-based Managing Director and Accenture’s Education Practice Lead. For nearly 20 years, she has partnered with education, government, and nonprofit organizations on strategic transformation and mission-driven outcomes. A reinvention-minded leader, Roy believes institutions are engines of opportunity. Her work is grounded in a simple conviction: institutions thrive when every person they serve, students, faculty, staff, is positioned to succeed.
Roy has worked with dozens of schools across the U.S. and globally on large-scale initiatives intersecting business transformation, technology modernization, and AI. She helps align institutional strategy with operational effectiveness, student success, and long-term resilience.
She is a proud Leadership Detroit alum (44) and is active in her community through board service with Goodwill of Greater Detroit, Covenant House Michigan (Vice Chair), Teach For America–Teach Michigan, Detroit Zoo Leadership Council, and Michigan State University Eli Broad Management Advisory Board (Chair).