2021 Transformation Report: Moving to Equity - Flipbook - Page 7
A Continuous Feedback Loop
Ensures Our Progress
CONTINUOUS LISTENING
ONGOING ACTIONS
Individual learning, behavior
change and listening
Structural improvement opportunities
prioritized and tracked
System-wide support structure
ensure mutual commitment
ratified and enacted, an equity framework to guide our businesses as we
engaged in this process.
The framework confirms our collective
commitment to racial equity and
ensures a continued and coordinated
focus. It makes clear our racial equity
beliefs and institutionalizes our commitment to ending racism and racial
injustice. The framework also spells out
commitments across talent, work environment, community, political engagement and supplier diversity.
The team of employees continues
oversight of our ongoing efforts. This
system support team of senior leaders,
business unit champions and subject
matter experts collaborates with company leadership, our company Diversity,
Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) councils and
employee resource groups (ERGs) and
networks to drive organic and sustainable change.
All employees are expected to embrace
these overarching racial equity ideals
and commit to continuous personal
education on the topic, engage in open
dialogue with teammates and hold each
other accountable for our success.
Holding ourselves accountable
As part of that accountability pledge, the
following Transformation Report seeks
to represent our actions in pursuit of
our equity goals. It establishes goals and
metrics that allow us to celebrate progress while also highlighting improvement
opportunities.
Additionally, we have engaged an
accounting firm to conduct an external
audit of this initiative to strengthen
Southern Company’s implementation
plans, bolster our capabilities and sustain
the desired behaviors and practices consistent with an inclusive company culture.
These ongoing actions represent our
commitment to put in the hard work
necessary to sustain the kind of equality
that we desire and all deserve.
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