D&I Steering Council

The D&I Steering Council exists to help change internal conversations about diversity and inclusion. Council members are senior leaders from across the company who are charged with identifying and discussing barriers to D&I, challenging the status quo and empowering change. CEO Mike Kaufmann and CHRO Ola Snow serve as the Council’s executive sponsors. The D&I Steering Council, along with all of our other senior leaders, challenge all employees to make these commitments:

Consistently challenge unconscious bias from ourselves and others
Embrace, encourage, share and respect human differences
Attract, recruit, hire, develop, empower, mentor and engage the best talent

To help guide these commitments, the D&I Steering Council works closely with senior executives and with our Chief Diversity Officer and Vice President of D&I, Devray Kirkland. Kirkland counsels teams across the enterprise on strategies to attract, retain and promote a diverse workforce. He also works closely with our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), employee-driven groups organized around a shared interest or a common diversity dimension.

Mike Kaufmann and Diversity and Inclusion Steering Council members during the the company’s first ever Diversity and Inclusion Town Hall.

D&I Town Hall

Late in 2019, CEO Mike Kaufmann, CHRO Ola Snow and the D&I Steering Council hosted the first Cardinal Health D&I Town Hall to discuss what our value “Inclusive” means at Cardinal Health.

Leaders of the D&I Steering Council shared personal anecdotes about difficult situations, like being the “only” in a room, which can be isolating. Others shared the difficulty of often facing the presumption that being diverse is the only reason they got their positions.