Vivek Sankaran

“My ambition is that we need to make our programs and our focus on this topic of diversity and inclusion and racial justice something that we treat like how we treat everything else about business every day. It cannot be episodic. We can't get all worked up when the next shooting happens and then go back to business. No, it's got to be at the forefront of our discussion every day. And so we have a six point program at Albertsons that we're driving. It's part of my agenda and it's part of every senior leader's agenda, and we are going to make sure that it sticks. That's my ambition.”

Q: “…what are the short term and long term goals that Albertson has to become more equitable?” A: “Yeah, Matt, it's an extremely important issue in terms of I like the way you put it, equitable along every different dimension. And we call it our DNI program. And it starts at the top. So my team of my direct reports, three are women. We have another man who's an Asian Indian, and we have two white men. And our general counsel is an African American woman. So we're a diverse team. It starts right at the top.”

“We're putting a lot of energy into creating the right environment, the right deep understanding of what diversity and inclusion really means, putting it into our processes when we come into recruiting, into evaluating for—people that slate for the right kinds of roles. So a lot of energy into the things that make a difference to get people into the middle management and above so that we get the fair representation across.”