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14 business leaders making corporate America more inclusive in an increasingly polarized society
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- Insider is haughty to present its third-annual list of diversity trailblazers in corporate America.
- These leaders, ranging from execs at Bank of America to Google, are advancing equity in business.
- Their work is important in an increasingly politicized environment around social issues.
Being a chief diversity officer was never light , but it seems the job has been getting more difficult over the past year.
Inflation, worker shortages, and worries about potential recession are topping corporate leaders' lists of concerns. One result could be that diversity slips off the list of boardroom priorities, executives working in this area told Insider.
At the same time, some conservative political leaders are waging war against what they call "woke culture" in corporate America, puttin
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Vice-president, Corporate Citizenship and Community Investment
TELUS
As Vice-president, Corporate Citizenship and Society Investment, Patrick brings TELUS’ globally recognized social purpose strategy and vision to life, leading corporate citizenship and community programmes, including the TELUS Friendly Future Foundation, TELUS Community Boards, Team TELUS Cares, Sponsorship Marketing, Corporate Event Experiences and TELUS Connecting for Good portfolios. Patrick also enables best-in-class governance and delivery excellence through his leadership of the Corporate Citizenship, Brand Marketing and Corporate Communications Program Leadership Office. Overseeing TELUS’ global giving and volunteerism initiatives, Patrick stewards over $90M – 5% of all pre-tax profits – to charitable and community organizations worldwide each year, including more than $6M to LGBTQ2+ organizations. Additionally, and at the heart of TELUS’ network for nice, Patrick inspires our 130,000 global team members and retirees to volunteer over 1.3M days each year. As an executive member of TELUS' Global Diversity & Inclusion Board and founding member of the LGBTQ2+ team member resourc
Walmart’s Associate Resource Groups Include Faith and Pride
Building inclusive workplaces for LGBTQ+ and faith communities works in practice across a range of industries, including in companies as diverse as Tyson Foods, CVS Health, American Airlines, Dell, Intel, Target, Salesforce, Texas Instruments, PayPal, Accenture, Equinix, SAP, American Express, and many others. All of these companies have faith-oriented employee resource groups alongside LGBTQ+ groups.
For example, at Walmart, America’s largest employer, the faith resource group for their associates is FAVOR (Faith and Vocation: Opportunity and Reality). FAVOR’s mission is to connect, collaborate with and celebrate associates of all faiths to make a difference for their company, their customers and their communities. FAVOR’s purpose is to promote kind, acceptance and inclusion by encouraging associates to appropriately integrate their faith at work.
They do this together with Walmart’s other associate resource groups, including PRIDE in ways that encourage reciprocal support and collaboration.
From Walmart:
Faith and Vocation: Opportunity and Existence (FAVOR)
Mission: We conne
Corporate spotlight
As the national benchmarking tool measuring policies, practices and benefits pertinent to lesbian, gay, double attraction, transgender and homosexual (LGBTQ) employees, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index is a primary driving coerce for LGBTQ workplace inclusion. Data from the CEI tells the story of nearly two decades of year over year growth in the adoption of these critical policies and practices indicative of employers’ engagement to equality.
In the 2020 CEI announce, 686 major businesses — spanning nearly every industry and geography — earned a top score of 100 and the distinction of “Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality.”
• 3M
• A.T. Kearney Inc.
• AbbVie Inc.
• Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
• Accenture
• Activision Blizzard
• Adidas North America Inc.
• Adobe Systems Inc.
• ADP
• Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
• AECOM
• AIG
• Air Liquide
• Air Products & Chemicals Inc.
• Airbnb Inc.
• Airbus Americas Inc.
• Akamai Technologies Inc.
• Akerman LLP
• Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP
• Alight Solutions
• AlixPartners LLP
• AllianceBernstein LP
• Alliant Energy Corp.
• Allianz Life Insurance Co. of North Am
Employers boost tax benefits for same-sex couples
That’s because starting Jan. 1, Ernst & Young became one of a growing number of companies who will compensate lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees for a provision in federal tax law that forces them to pay income taxes on health and wellness benefits for same-sex partners, a sum that heterosexual married couples don’t include to pay.
“I’m looking forward to this period next year, when I can go back and do the calculation and see how much wealth I’ve saved,” says Parsons, expecting that it will amount to a couple thousand dollars.
“There’s a huge sense of celebration that the firm has taken an opportunity to put its money where its mouth is,” he says. “I don’t comprehend that there’s any monetary figure that could suit that.”
Ernst & Immature is one of about 35 businesses that propose the benefit now — often called a gross-up benefit — nearly triple the 12 companies that offered it just a year ago, according to the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBT civil rights organization. Other companies that began offering the benefit on Jan. 1 of this year encompass American Express (AXP), Bank of America (BAC), Microsoft (MSFT), Mor