2021 Transformation Report: Moving to Equity - Flipbook - Page 6
Where We Started
An Overview on Moving to Equity
In 2020, building on our years-long efforts to impact
diversity and inclusion, Southern Company began a
journey we call Moving to Equity. We have strived for
sustained racial equality and inclusivity for all within
our companies and the communities we serve.
We are deploying resources both internally
and externally to advance inclusivity,
equity and social justice, while working
toward a workplace where all feel welcomed, valued, respected and engaged.
We have formalized our commitments
and actions toward preventing racism
and discrimination. Moreover, we have
created a structure that formalizes
our work and promises it will not be
episodic but rather will continue and
become reflected in the values we live
each and every day.
Listening, learning and understanding
Employees engaged in candid conversations that awakened a growing
recognition of the cumulative and compounded effects of systemic barriers and
bias across institutions and society. We
seized upon the opportunity to drive the
conversation, raise awareness and create
opportunities for improvement. Focus
was placed on listening, learning and
understanding the reality of systemic
racism and implicit bias.
After a period of self-reflection, and in
assessing what we heard and learned,
ultimately, we knew we must do more
than talk. It was imperative we begin
to act.
Our framework
As such, the company set about defining
our course of action toward a better
future. To make our vision of equity a
reality, a working team of employees
from across the Southern Company
system created, and company leadership
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