2024 Impact Awards winner: Nestlé Canada

Nestlé Canada believes that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion values are vital to creating a culture of success that respects diversity, pursues equity, enables inclusion and ensures its workforce reflects the consumers and communities it serves. 

To ensure its DE&I efforts are comprehensive and impactful, the company established two unique streams of DE&I groups: Employee Resource Groups (ERG) and DE&I Functional Groups, made up of more than 150 employees. 

While each group has its own unique mission, they work together to create a work environment where every employee in Canada feels they belong. 

ERG groups support the creation of policies, guidelines, resources and programs for Nestlé Canada’s 3,500-plus employees, focused on accessibility, mental health, the 2SLGBTQI+ community, gender balance and race and ethnic inclusion. 

DE&I Functional Groups are made up of employees that represent their own functions within Nestlé Canada and ensure that DE&I is embedded in everything, from operations to strategies and decision-making processes. 

This approach has been successful. Nestlé Canada is a world leader amongst other markets for diversity in the workforce, specifically with gender balance. 

The company’s global progress has been recognized in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index.