Ashland has a Global Diversity and Inclusion Steering Council that includes key business leaders and representatives, championed by our Chairman and CEO Jim O’Brien. In 2009, Ashland adopted a two-year plan to address key issues facing Ashland in enhancing and fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Ashland’s Global Diversity and Inclusion Steering Council is responsible for:

• Designing, developing and driving a diversity and inclusion strategy
• Communicating of our diversity and inclusion vision as a strategic objective aligned with desired business outcomes
• Developing metrics and tracking progress to drive accountability
• Reinforcing management behavioral transformation
• Serving as diversity and inclusion champions through consistent and ongoing messaging and modeling
• Ensuring sustainability by linking to other organizational initiatives, systems and processes