Women’s leadership is a business imperative vital to Marriott’s success. We must continue to invest in our associates, establish workplace policies and practices to ensure access to opportunity and demonstrate our commitment to attract, develop and retain women leaders at all levels.

Since its launch in 1999, our Women’s Leadership Development Initiative has focused on offering leadership development, networking, and mentoring, and creating responsive workplace policies. Today, this platform concentrates our efforts on developing and building a strong pipeline of future women leaders, providing more opportunities and forums for women to network and build mentoring relationships, and promoting work-life blend. All women’s leadership events at Marriott are executed to incorporate these key areas of focus for women leaders and fulfill the following objectives:

• Increase the presence of women in the highest levels of management and in other key decision-making positions;
• Strengthen the career development process at Marriott;
• Ensure a role for senior management to play in ensuring that women progress; and
• Capitalize on engaging today’s women leaders in driving the success of the organization.

These objectives are reinforced through a variety of internal and external educational opportunities, strategic partnerships, retention programs, and work-life blend initiatives.

Today, women comprise 44% of our global workforce, hold some of the most significant P&L and policymaking positions across our company, and represent 50% of our CEO’s direct reports. People of Color represent 42% of CEO’s direct reports, and 25% are women of color. At year-end 2022, 47% of global executives (vice presidents and above) were women. Our goal is to achieve gender parity for the company’s global executives by YE 2023.