First Horizon National’s new Diversity Task Force monitors internal promotions to ensure that women achieve parity with men.

Working moms have a real voice at this Memphis-based financial services firm, which courts employee feedback. Anyone with a question for the CEO can leave messages at a dedicated voice mailbox and expect either a call or a written response. Meanwhile, the executive team holds frequent brown bag luncheons at which they solicit and respond to employee concerns. Staff surveys gauge internal sentiment, with a recent one showing that 90% of workers feel their bosses support work/life balance and that 96% have the flexibility they need to work effectively. In an impressive move, the firm last year loaded employees’ flexible spending accounts with $14 million and freed them to use it toward child care, health care or retirement. Parents adjusting to a new birth or adoption or coping with an ill child may take 26 job-guaranteed weeks off. 

National President & CEO: Bryan Jordan

Executive VP, HR: John Daniel

Women managers/execs: 55%

Women among top earners: 14%

Women on board of directors: 9%

Women corporate executive hires in 2008: 0%

Women participating in management or leadership training in the past year: 3

Women participating in formalized executive succession planning last year: 40%

Women participating in management or leadership training in the past year: 3%

Women participating in formalized executive succession planning last year: 40%

Women promoted last year who utilized a formal flexible work arrangement: 1%

Formal compensation policies reward managers who help women advance: No