Jeff Gennette

Jeff Gennette

Chairman and CEO at Macy’s
Biography:

Jeff Gennette serves as Chairman and CEO for Macy’s which is headquartered in New York, NY.

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"I also think this country is getting more and more diverse, and so our opportunity as a retail industry to serve diversity and inclusion is just as important an initiative for so many of us."

"So I think you said it well, diversity and inclusion and equity is part of our DNA, so let's talk about internally. So we embedded diversity, inclusion into really the entire colleague lifestyle, and we've developed and implemented an inclusive recruitment process. So I think a big headline for us is that we are now at really when you look at gender and racial and pay equity, we're at greater than 99% across the entire company."

"We're also really providing ongoing diversity and inclusion education and launching inclusive leadership education for all of our people leaders. We've expanded opportunities for colleagues to experience connection, to achieve belonging. And we're doing that through our employee resource groups, which during the Pandemic, we did a relaunch and unbelievable the advocacy across all of our employee resource groups and how they've expanded."

"We're also massively looking to expand the support of our communities. So we look at a million dollars in annual grants to organizations that advocate for and defend social justice and racial equality, and then just we're taking a leadership role with driving systemic change externally. So we signed on as the CEO Action for Racial Equity and that steering committee, and we dedicated two of our real high potentials opio depri and Felicia Williams, to serve as fellows for CEO Action for two years. So we just continue to intensify our commitment to the growth and advancement of all of our underrepresented suppliers and our colleagues."

"At Macy's, diversity and inclusion is ingrained in our business strategy, and it's also part of our path to growth. We intentionally manage our programs to ensure that diversity and inclusion is integrated into every aspect of the company."