CEO: John Strangfeld
The 50 companies on this year’s Best Companies for Diversity list represent brands that recognize the value in cultivating an inclusive environment, driven by company leadership through senior management and the board of directors (as shown in the B.E. Registry of Corporate Directors
). Some are also taking a step further to engage employees during turbulent and confusing socio-political times.Here we’d like to highlight Prudential Financial, the life insurance, retirement, and investment services firm based in New Jersey, and what it’s doing to push forward and nurture diversity and inclusion.
At Prudential, diversity and inclusion are not standalone programs that come and go based on changing economies. Prudential has been able to stay the course in driving diversity and inclusion as it is embedded into all of its businesses and human resource policies.
Examples of the company’s work to advance ethnic minority causes are its support of My Brother’s Keeper, an initiative launched by the White House, to ensure boys and young men of color have the opportunity to reach their full
potential, and the “Titans of Industry†tour to promote African American professional success and generational wealth. Recently, Prudential published The African American Financial Experience, developed with the involvement of members of the company’s first-established Business Resource Group: the Black Leadership Forum Symposium.