Category: Innovations in Diversity Award
Gender diversity in the oil and gas industry remains a hot topic, and Halliburton has added significantly to the efforts that were recognized among the Top Ten in Profiles in Diversity Journal’s 2013 Innovation Awards. In the past year, Halliburton forged partnerships with universities and community organizations to create an increased awareness of the STEM… Read the full article
The Women Take Charge section of Lincoln Financial Group’s Chief Life Officer microsite was launched in March 2012, coinciding with Women’s History Month and providing educational multimedia presentations and other tools aimed at helping women take charge of their lives and financial futures. “Today, we see more women in the role of primary financial decision… Read the full article
Due to the recent oil production activity around the Bakken Oil formation, the population of Williston, North Dakota, and its surrounding communities has grown from approximately 13,000 to over 60,000 within the last two years. Many of the newcomers migrated to the area from outside the US. Mercy Medical Center launched several diversity efforts to… Read the full article
In 2013, Linkage and its clients faced a problem: Even though research and studies showed the power and need for inclusive leaders in today’s workforce, no one had a good way to assess inclusion, let alone track a leader’s progress toward inclusiveness. Understanding and providing guidance around the development of inclusive leadership became a driving… Read the full article
IRS’s diversity and inclusion efforts are aimed at encouraging employees to learn about value and be inclusive of all differences—including backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences—and leveraging diversity as a means of accomplishing its mission and serving our customers in more effective, innovative, and collaborative ways. Our first challenge, however, is that government reporting requirements have led… Read the full article
In 2014, The Hartford established a goal to integrate D&I more fully into the organization’s talent management and succession planning processes with an initiative called call Talent Reviews. For the program’s inaugural Talent Review cycle, diversity personnel worked with business leaders and their HR partners to identify employees that could 1) benefit from, and add… Read the full article
New York Life showed its growing commitment to the Latino Community in 2013 by organizing a firstof-its-kind series of summits designed to solely focus on the Latino/Hispanic market. These summits were created to drive awareness and help our agents and other Latino/Hispanic financial professionals develop action plans and expand their capacity to bring financial information… Read the full article
Success in today’s market hinges on innovation. But while it’s been shown that diversity enhances innovation, many organizations struggle to cultivate the “right mix” of elements to create a springboard for it. Booz Allen Hamilton’s mix focuses on three key areas: Driving inclusive behaviors that nurture innovation; fostering communication and providing avenues to share and… Read the full article
The City of Edmonton’s Diversity and Inclusion Framework and Implementation Plan provides employees with the tools and support they need to identify and address systemic barriers and build a diverse and inclusive workforce. It gives employers the means to integrate diversity and inclusion values and practices into existing corporate processes, and to enable progress to… Read the full article
Marriott International’s strategic diversity and inclusion focus involves creating a sense of belonging as the company attracts, engages, and develops the next generation of associates and leaders. Conducting research with associates to understand what it is like to work for Marriott, the company continually heard, “Marriott is where I belong.” To belong means feeling valued,… Read the full article
