CREATING A SENSE OF BELONGING

Our commitment to DE&I is highlighted through our recruitment efforts and activities, employee training and active support for Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) around the globe.

Recruiting Talent with Diverse Backgrounds and Perspectives:

Our primary efforts focus on finding and appealing to a broad range of qualified talent with diverse experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives. Through our broad sourcing efforts, we have expanded our recruiting talent pool and evolved the recruiting experience.

Mental Well-being:

At Colgate-Palmolive, we strive to live our purpose to reimagine a healthier future for all people, their pets and our planet every day. Supporting the mental well-being of our people is crucial to ensuring we live this purpose. Our approach to supporting the mental health and well-being of our people is based on three principles:

WE care for ME – caring for yourself and identifying how you can be responsible for your own well-being;
WE care for WE – caring for each other, celebrating our strengths and our differences; and
WE create a safe space – promoting common ground and supporting each other in moments of connection and triumph.

To help promote a stigma-free culture of mental health and well-being, we created a video to connect our current programs, our values and our leadership principles to help inform our mental well-being efforts and make our teams aware of the resources available to them. We also offer a leadership self-assessment to help our leaders cultivate a sense of psychological safety and offer access to telehealth counseling services for our employees to get external support when needed.

Leading Inclusively:

Inclusivity is part of our values and embedded in our Leadership Principles. This starts with the “tone from the top” where our leaders are regularly informed about our DE&I progress.

As part of leading inclusively, we offered the following tips to all employees:

Listen: Listen with an open mind and without judgment.
Learn: Commit to continuous learning.
Engage: Look for opportunities to engage or volunteer with your organization’s ERGs or local affinity groups.