JPMorgan Chase will match up to $1,000 of an employee’s annual donation to charity.

Working smarter, not harder, is the idea behind the Career Advancement program for employees at this financial services corporation. With a mix of one-on-one coaching and group workshops, the program helps workers learn that adept communication and self-promotion can reap big results at the office. Enabling multicultural women to gain greater visibility is one of its special missions—but that’s been a focus for the firm since it offered its first employee network for women of color, back in 1995. It now has seven multicultural networks, as well as an increasing number of mentoring circles and leadership forums for African-American, Asian and Latino employees. Diversity Manager Raymond Flautt and the Corporate Diversity Council strive to ensure that each business line is recruiting and promoting multicultural women—and their progress is tracked to enforce accountability. Requiring diverse candidates for every top job has also helped bring multicultural women to the fore to increase the number evaluated for professional and managerial positions. Additionally, the company will match up to $1,000 of an employee’s annual donations to charity.

Multicultural Women 28%
Chairman & CEO Jamie Dimon
VP, Diversity Manager Raymond Flautt

At JPMorgan Chase, multicultural women represent…
2% of corporate executives
2% of senior managers
10% of the top earners
31% of the company hires
28% of the company lossesNot tracked % of participants in mentoring programs
Not tracked % of participants in career counseling programs