Miriam Lewis: Up for the Next Bold Challenge with Principal
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Submitted by Principal Financial Group, Inc.
When Miriam Lewis considered the job offer to become chief inclusion officer with Principal Financial Group, she had a few questions.
Where, in relation to her then-home in Atlanta, was Des Moines?
And how committed was Principal to integrating diversity and inclusion—or D&I—into its business model?
“It’s rare to see jobs for inclusion roles that reference a business background coupled with diversity and inclusion experience,” Lewis says. “And Principal’s did. I knew at that moment that Principal understood: This work must be tied to the business, so you can make meaningful progress. It takes business leaders to sustain this work. Inclusion isn’t a human resources initiative. It’s a business imperative.”