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Ivan Menezes, CEO, Diageo
Since becoming the CEO of Diageo (DGE.L) in 2013, Ivan has been passionate about driving inclusion and diversity at the company.
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In 2020 he launched a new 10-year sustainability action plan titled ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’.
The plan laid out goals including increasing the representation of ethnic minorities in leadership positions to 45% by 2030, as well as increasing the percentage of Diageo suppliers from female and minority-owned businesses year-on-year.
2020 also saw the roll-out of a new learning intervention ‘Confronting Racial Bias Learning’, and the opening of Diageo’s fourth global ‘INC’ week; an employee-led, grassroots movement encouraging employees around the world to celebrate diversity.
U S Bank Aims to Build Wealth Among Black Americans tcbmag.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tcbmag.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
U.S. Bancorp rolls out a plan to fight racial wealth gap Early focus will be on Black customers and employees. February 17, 2021 8:04am Text size Copy shortlink:
U.S. Bancorp is launching a multipronged initiative to address the racial wealth gap.
The new initiative announced Wednesday is built around providing communities of color, with a particular focus initially on the Black community, greater access to financial information, education, products, resources and capital. The effort spans the entire enterprise and also includes recruiting more people of color to work for it.
The array of ideas and projects at U.S. Bank is unfolding as more American companies grapple with the yawning chasms of wealth and opportunity by race. The banking industry confronts a decadeslong history of underserving Black people in particular, rooted partly in unfair lending practices for much of the 20th century that created wounds tha