Updating and Enhancing our Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Efforts with Action Plan Beginning with a Focus on Racial Justice
Challenge
Responding to the 2020 Racial Justice Movement with Meaningful Action.
Actions
With the focus on racial justice that sparked in the Spring of 2020 with the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, we felt we needed to accelerate, focus and/or expand some of our Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging initiatives/plans. We created an updated action plan that focused first on listening to our associates about their thoughts on diversity, inclusion and belonging at SBH and the impact of racial justice issues on their personal and professional lives, then builds toward how we will use their input to develop the next steps in our internal and external Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging efforts.
Outcomes
It is difficult to identify specific outcomes of the actions we recently implemented in response to the 2020 racial justice movement. The initial outcomes we aspire to are a better understanding of our associates’ feelings, priorities and views on this important movement, related issues within our company and where we should focus our resources and action plan.
Contact
Scott Sherman, Senior Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer
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Sally Beauty Holdings is a part of every type of community that exists across the countries in which we do business. We have a rich history of serving the beauty needs of a wide variety of retail and professional customers and employing similarly diverse associates on our teams. Diverse customers, associates and suppliers have been a huge part of our success story, and it’s important to understand that we need to play a role in making sure they all have similar opportunities to succeed and thrive – both with our Company and in society at large.
I believe CEOs have an opportunity to play a special, powerful role in accelerating progress on Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging within their own companies, industries and the world. We are the decision-makers. We set and drive the strategy and priorities. We hold our teams accountable. Our actions and words demonstrate to our teams and others what is important to us. We must do all of those things with Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging viewed not as a “nice to have” or a project, but as a strategic imperative that is core to the success of our companies and ourselves.
I am committed to making significant progress on Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging within SBH and the communities we serve and I know our Board, leaders and team are equally focused on driving long-lasting, meaningful change.