Theodore Colbert III

"The Racial Equity Task Force, as I mentioned before, is made up of a diverse group of employees across the entire company and they are largely helping to facilitate that process. It's an empowered team, but the HR team is helping them make sure that they are making good progress in breaking down barriers, opening doors where needed, helping, and, frankly, making sure that they come into the sessions with our executive council with a no fear attitude, that they know that they're in a psychologically safe environment and they can share the no kidding feedback about what's really going on in the company."

"I think that, first of all, diversity, equity and inclusion are absolute force multipliers for performance."

“We have a racial equity task force, for example, that's made up of a broad group of diverse, talented employees across the company. They represent all of our employee resource groups and all of our business units and functions and others. They've been providing input for the targets and approach that we've been taking… I don't mean that in an old school way of creating targets to hire people. I mean, we're trying to figure out from a business perspective what we need to do to move forward on diversity, equity, inclusion, and specifically make progress on racial equity. That's black representation.”

"So we went and spent some time with our CEO and many of the other leaders of our executive council and developed a three pronged plan to root out racism in the company, advance key measures of success around equity and inclusion, and really strengthen our commitment to our people and our community. We've published that since then."

"You need to have continuity with your people, and when you create an environment that is diverse and inclusive. It creates the conditions to have a safe place for people to bring their whole selves with them, to work every day and contribute."

"Because my skin is brown. If I didn't zoom the camera all the way into my skin, all of the sort of lighter colors, all the white in the room just sucked up all the metering on the camera. Well, it turns out that it took our pandemic and our sort of video collaboration culture I won't mention any brands, but our video collaboration culture for the camera folks to figure out that they should prioritize improving the performance of cameras for people with darker skin. Because if your background is soaked out in color, you're going to end up looking like two eye pupils blinking for hours and hours and hours. That, to me, is just a reflection of diversity. And I suspect, and I don't know for a fact that the folks developing cameras more broadly for video usage, especially in this type of environment, didn't do a lot of testing across the board or they didn't prioritize putting the metering on these cameras to support a broad spectrum of skin color. I know that's a really weird one to bring up, but that is a real challenge."

"We're investing at a minimum of $25 million in nonprofit organizations that advance equity by 2023."