Inclusion at FBIN
Our Commitment: Building a Home for All
We are taking many actions to create a Home For All that contribute to increased associate engagement, retention and productivity. These are all important outcomes as Fortune Brands Innovations charts a new path as a more collaborative company striving for accelerated growth and productivity.
Our Approach: Home for All
Having diverse teams that feel welcomed, engaged and listened to helps drive greater product and solution innovation that is a key part of our business strategy. It is important that our workforce represents our consumers and communities so we can better understand, predict and meet consumers’ needs with new products to drive customer loyalty and profitability. DEI at Fortune Brands is more than increasing representation of underrepresented groups. We want all associates to feel welcomed and valued, have a sense of belonging, and be able to bring their whole, authentic selves to the workplace. This includes a commitment to helping all our associates and leaders develop skills and grow within the Company.
Our DEI Strategy
Our DEI strategy revolves around four pillars: Attract, Belong, Promote and Influence.
- Attract: We aim to increase representation of professionals of color and women.
- Belong: We will look for ways to reduce the barriers to inclusion through our policies, programs, business practices and education.
- Promote: We want to better prepare our professionals of color and women for promotion into manager level positions and above.
- Influence: We will publicly demonstrate our DEI commitment.
Check out some examples of how we are advancing DEI at Fortune Brands Innovations:
Fortune Brands joined the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Expanding Equity program in 2021 to gain access to more tools to advance racial equity and DEI. Learn more about Expanding Equity.
Fortune Brands’ Inclusive Culture Council (ICC)’s goal is to attract and retain the best talent that represents the diversity of our consumers and communities and allows us to outperform our markets and competitors.
We have nine employee resource groups (ERGs). Each group has an executive sponsor, a team who leads programming and membership, and a dedicated site on our Company intranet. Learn more.
Fortune Brands joined this commitment to advancing DEI in our workplace and communities. Learn more about CEO Action.
We are ensuring our associates are heard by leveraging our bi-annual engagement surveys to ask pointed questions about belonging and bringing one’s full self to work.
We have increased representation at the highest levels, and we are driving a comprehensive equity strategy to advance diversity, equity and inclusion.
We’ve had some exciting outcomes from our focus on Building a Home For All! Some highlights include that we have enhanced key parental benefits to be more inclusive; we have seen a 75% increase in applications from diverse candidate over the past year compared to our 2021 baseline, helping us make progress towards increasing representation; and we have expanded our ERG offerings.