DiversityInc Webinar - 10 Winning Strategies from the Top 50 (Download
The 2007 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity demonstrate consistent strength in CEO Commitment, Human Capital, Corporate Communications and Supplier Diversity, the four categories ranked. Hear case studies from the Top 50 proving why diversity is critical to their business success and how they leverage it in every way to successfully compete in the marketplace.
Find out how the Top 50 are scooping up top talent, retaining all people at higher rates, creating diverse succession plans, reaching customers in traditionally underrepresented groups, and connecting with diverse investors and suppliers.
Consider these facts and see what you can learn from them:
- The Top 50 hire 42 percent people of color; the U.S. work force is 29 percent people of color*
- Although Top 50 companies employ only 5 percent of the U.S. work force, they employ 17 percent of the college-educated people of color*
- Twenty-five percent of Top 50 companies' management is people of color, compared with 15 percent people of color in management nationwide*
- One hundred percent of the Top 50 offer domestic-partner health benefits for same-sex couples, compared with 53 percent of Fortune 500 companies. Seventy-four percent of the Top 50 include gender orientation in their nondiscrimination policies, compared with only 24 percent of the Fortune 500*
- Top 50 companies spend 9.7 percent of their procurement budgets with minority- and women-owned suppliers, compared with just 2 percent nationally*
- When expressed as a stock index, the publicly traded companies in the Top 50 consistently beat the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Standard & Poor's 500 and the Nasdaq
*Sources: The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, National Center for Education Statistics, Human Rights Campaign, Ramirez & Associates
Featured Presenters:
Ed Rodriguez
Vice President of Organizational Capability and Diversity
Pepsi Bottling Group
No. 2 on The 2007 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity
Rosie Saez
Senior Vice President, Director of Leadership Practices
Wachovia
No. 11 on The 2007 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity
