This secondary mortgage lender deserves praise for its serious attempts to attract and retain multicultural workers, who so far comprise 63% of the year’s hires (up from 55% in 2012). New diversity and inclusion plans are being instituted across the company, emphasizing the advancement of women and people of color as an official priority; in an important realignment, Chief Diversity Officer Dwight Robinson now reports directly to the CEO, providing progress reports on initiatives that increase employees’ career options and strengthen workforce demographics. While 29% of the high­-potential female directors in the company’s Women’s Cohort development program have diverse backgrounds, management just debuted a similar offering solely for Hispanic employees.

CEO: Don Layton

Senior VP & CDO, Outreach, Diversity & HR: Dwight Robinson

Multicultural women represent…

24% of total employees

7% of corporate executives

9% of senior managers

10% of the top fifth of all earners

17% of all promotions to manager, senior manager or corporate executive in 2011

9% of the board of directors in 2011
 

What percentage of multicultural women employees participated in mentoring in 2011? Not answered

What percentage of multicultural women employees participated in affinity groups in 2011? 49%