Forbes Names Avangrid Among America’s Best Employers for Diversity
23 Abril 2024 - 11:54AM
Business Wire
Selected for commitment to diversity, equity
and inclusion best practices
Avangrid, Inc. (NYSE: AGR), a leading sustainable energy company
and a member of the Iberdrola Group, has been named to Forbes list
of America’s Best Employers for Diversity 2024. This annual list
researches and reviews companies’ diversity, equity and inclusion
(DEI) best practices and conducts anonymous employee surveys.
“We’re focused on creating a workplace where talented and
committed employees build meaningful, long-term careers,” said
Pedro Azagra, Avangrid CEO. “We accomplish this by fostering a
workplace culture that seeks out diverse perspectives, values
continuous improvement, and recognizes and rewards behaviors and
ideas that prepare our employees to meet the challenges of the
future. Earning this honor from Forbes confirms that we are on the
right path and that our actions are making a difference.”
To build, sustain and empower a diverse workforce with a rich
mix of differences, Avangrid prioritizes DEI initiatives in three
areas: increasing diverse representation, especially in leadership
positions; promoting equitable opportunities to grow and develop;
and establishing pathways for community and connection with others.
To further this mission, last year Avangrid launched a DEI
Executive Council to advocate for DEI across the organization. The
company also introduced a required “Inclusion at Work” training
course to empower Avangrid employees with the knowledge and skills
necessary to foster an inclusive workplace.
Additionally, Avangrid has seven Business Resource Groups (BRGs)
that provide spaces for employees from different cultures,
ethnicities, identities and backgrounds to celebrate who they are
while raising important issues in a supportive environment. BRGs
are open to all employees, either as members or allies, and are
actively involved in helping Avangrid build and sustain a diverse
workforce with an inclusive culture. Avangrid’s BRGs are: Avangrid
African American Council for Excellence (AAACE), Avangrid Coalition
for Asian Pacific Americans (ACAPA), AVAN-Veterans, CARE (Avangrid
Community for all Abilities and Resource for Excellence), HOLA
(Hispanic Organization for Leadership and Awareness),
Pride@Avangrid, and WomENergy.
“There is a shift happening in the utility industry,” said Kyra
Patterson, senior vice president and chief human resources officer.
“We must provide an environment that attracts diversity, offers
development opportunities, promises career growth and nurtures
employee engagement—thereby driving and delivering employee
retention. We see ourselves as a destination employer, and we will
continue to ask all to help create and support this focus. This
will be critically important, not just for today, but also for our
next 100 years as a leading clean energy company.”
Avangrid is also actively involved with key public memberships
focused on DEI. The company signed onto Paradigm for Parity in
2021, a coalition of organizations dedicated to addressing the
systemic gender and racial gaps in the corporate sector.
Additionally, the company is part of CEO Action for Diversity &
Inclusion, pledging to support a more inclusive workplace for
employees, communities and society at large. Avangrid has committed
to several aspirational goals to build diversity in its workforce,
including having 40% women in executive positions by 2025 and
having 50% women in senior leader positions by 2030.
To create this seventh annual list, Forbes partnered with
Statista, a market research firm that independently surveyed more
than 170,000 individuals working for organizations with at least
1,000 employees within the United States. The participants were
asked to anonymously rate their employers on the organization’s
approach to diversity as it pertains to such criteria as age,
gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and general
diversity.
About Avangrid: Avangrid, Inc. (NYSE: AGR) aspires to be
the leading sustainable energy company in the United States.
Headquartered in Orange, CT with approximately $44 billion in
assets and operations in 24 U.S. states, Avangrid has two primary
lines of business: networks and renewables. Through its networks
business, Avangrid owns and operates eight electric and natural gas
utilities, serving more than 3.3 million customers in New York and
New England. Through its renewables business, Avangrid owns and
operates a portfolio of renewable energy generation facilities
across the United States. Avangrid employs approximately 8,000
people and has been recognized by JUST Capital in 2021, 2022, 2023
and 2024 as one of the JUST 100 companies – a ranking of America’s
best corporate citizens. In 2024, Avangrid ranked first among
utilities and 12 overall. The company supports the U.N.’s
Sustainable Development Goals and was named among the World’s Most
Ethical Companies in 2024 for the sixth consecutive year by the
Ethisphere Institute. Avangrid is a member of the group of
companies controlled by Iberdrola, S.A. For more information, visit
www.avangrid.com.
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