What are those Racial Justice and Equity initiatives?
- Launching RiseUp, a cohort-based, targeted leadership development program for new Black and LatinX
- Currently piloting this internal leadership development program with 16 US employees
- Goal: Leadership Development and Career Accelerator for Black & Latinx Twilions
- Benefits:
- Robust career planning
- Increased leadership and business exposure
- Network of peers and leaders across Twilio
- Instituting The Inclusion Rule, an internal recruitment policy to ensure a diverse slate of candidates
- Expanding our BetterUp Coaching offerings to Black and LatinX Twilions in the US, with a focus on career planning and development.
- 200+ employees included in pilot
- Over 2,500 sessions as of April ‘21
- 94% said their BetterUp sessions helped them be more effective at work
- Saw significant 10+ point increases in “self-compassion,” “rest” and “alignment” as measured by post- session assessments
- Running Hatch, a six month software engineering apprenticeship program open to individuals from nontraditional and underrepresented backgrounds.
- 43 apprenticeships offered since program launch in 2017
- 96% conversion rate to full time employees
- Program pilots in Madrid and Bengaluru launching in 2021
- Launching a Be Inclusive curriculum to build a common language around inclusion and support Twilions in mitigating their own
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- ~1500 employees have taken the training so far