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.
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.
D&I Steering Council members
(After officers, members are listed alphabetically)
