SPECIAL REPORT
MEGHAN WELCH
ROSANNA DURRUTHY Chief Diversity Officer
VP & Chief Inclusion and Collaboration Officer
CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL SERVICES
CIGNA
CISCO
Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer
Headquarters: Business: Employees: Website:
McLean, VA Financial Services 45,000+ capitalone.com
Philosophy: Unwavering values at the core of every decision. Knowing when to get out of the way and let great talent thrive. Focusing on the right problems and finding the key points of leverage in solving them, and not shying away from the right thing even though it may be harder. Welch leads Capital One’s global efforts to foster and maintain a workplace environment in which the voices of every employee, affiliate, client, and customer are heard and matter. Her work focuses on building a culture where every person’s dignity and worth are recognized and honored, and where diverse perspectives, lifestyles, and backgrounds are welcomed and celebrated. Capital One believes that by building a team as diverse as the communities and customers it serves, it can offer better products, services and customer experiences.
Headquarters: Business: Employees: Website:
SHARI SLATE
Headquarters: Business: Employees: Website:
Hartford, CT Healthcare 39,000 cigna.com
Philosophy: Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. - John F. Kennedy
Philosophy: Building a strategy that enhances Cisco’s vision to be a world class, benchmark company for inclusion and collaboration.
At Cigna, diversity and inclusion is a critical enabler of its business strategy, and differentiates the ability to respond to disruptive change in the marketplace. “D&I is embedded in our operating model as we leverage insights to optimize employee performance to improve our connection with the customers and create new value for clients to increase affordability and better health outcomes,” Durruthy said.
Slate is promoting thought leadership across Cisco’s people strategy, enabling employee engagement and inclusion outcomes to fuel innovation and market leadership. “Cisco has a vision of unleashing the full power and potential of our people from an expanded view of diversity,” she said.
Cisco is valuing and embracing a full spectrum of different backgrounds, cultures, affiliations, “Disruptive change has driven the shift from the abilities, work styles, and perspectives (several acknowledged need to optimize the workforce are profiled in this edition). It has also created and build cultural competence to yield an the first-of-its-kind Office of Inclusion and innovation, connection and inspiration in the Collaboration. “This expansive view of actions of our employees,” she says. diversity is fundamental to who we are and the possibilities we see through the convergence of diversity, inclusion, collaboration, and technology are fundamental to where we are going,” Slate said.
COCA-COLA EUROPEAN PARTNERS Headquarters: Business: Employees: Website:
London, UK Consumer Products 25,000 ccep.com
Philosophy: Passionate about turning diversity and inclusion goals into concrete results for employees, consumers and stakeholders worldwide.
STEPHANIE OUEDA CRUZ Associate Director Diversity and Inclusion
San Jose, CA Technology 70,000 + Cisco.com
As associate director of diversity and inclusion at one of Europe’s leading consumer goods companies, Cruz is committed to making a broad contribution to the communities in
which the newly forged Coca-Cola European Partners operates and the value of diversity in its workforce. Having been accountable for diversity at L’Oréal and now for CCEP, Cruz has a great mix to drive diversity and inclusion with a different perspective. She is focusing on longterm strategies for increasing cohesion and driving innovation in teams and growth. Coca-Cola European Partners builds on nearly a century of European heritage, combining the bottling operations in 2016 of three companies positioned to drive growth: Coca-Cola Enterprises, Coca-Cola Iberian Partners S.A.U, and Coca-Cola Erfrischungsgetranke.
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