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Diversity, Equity
and Inclusion
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I)
are essential aspects for our company.
At Southern Company, Our Values
foster a diverse, inclusive, equitable and
innovative culture so that employees
can execute our business strategy
with agility and accountability. Our
Moving to Equity work reflects our
committment to DE&I in our workforce
and our communities. Our community
efforts include partnerships with diverse
suppliers and philanthropic investments
in historically underrepresented and
marginalized communities.
• We have refocused our efforts toward a more
holistic goal of diversity, equity and inclusion
• Energy justice has been added as a focus area
in our Moving to Equity initiative
• Southern Company is committed to supplier
diversity that reflects the diversity of our
customer base and energizes our success
Learn more
Spotlight: Moving to Equity
Following events in 2020 highlighting racial
injustice in our society, we adopted Moving
to Equity as our framework to demonstrate a
collective commitment to our work. Subsequently,
we published a 2021 Moving to Equity report updating
stakeholders on progress in our commitment areas.
Key efforts and commitments include:
• Talent: committing to a diverse, equitable and
inclusive workplace to better serve our customers
and communities; increasing and improving outreach,
recruitment, hiring and retention of diverse groups
at all levels of the workforce; ensuring equity in
leadership development programs; and seeking
diverse candidate slates for all positions, including
management roles.
• Culture: promoting an actively anti-racist culture
to ensure that all groups, especially historically
underrepresented and marginalized groups, are wellrepresented, included and fairly treated within all
levels of the organization, and that everyone feels
welcomed, valued and respected.
• Community: committing $225 million over five
years to advance racial equity and social justice in
our communities with a focus on criminal justice,
economic empowerment, the advancement of
educational equality and energy justice.
• Political Engagement: advocating for racial equity
through our political engagement, policy positions
and ongoing public dialogues.
• Suppliers: aiming to increase our minority business
enterprise spend to 20% and total diverse spend to
30% by 2025, and committing to developing and
doing business with more Black-owned businesses in
our industry and communities.
We provide updates on our progress through our Boldly
Forward website and an annual Moving to Equity
report.
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