Sodexo is the leading provider of food and facilities management in the US and Canada. Sodexo offers innovative outsourcing solutions in food service, housekeeping, grounds keeping, plant operations and maintenance, asset and materials management, and laundry services to more than 6,000 clients. These clients include corporations, health care, long term care and retirement centers, schools, college campuses, military and remote sites in North America. With employees in 85 countries world-wide, Vice President and Global Chief Diversity Officer Dr. Rohini Anand tells LatPro what makes the Sodexo workplace an environment of diversity and inclusion.

The General Electric Company (GE) is a diversified technology, media and financial services company with products and services including aircraft engines, power generation, water processing, security technology, medical imaging, business and consumer financing and media content. GE serves customers in more than 100 countries and employs more than 300,000 people worldwide, and Diversity Manager Lani Hall leads the diversity and inclusion efforts for GE Energy, a $22B global business division, driving its diversity recruiting strategy. Ms. Hall shares her insight and experience with GE’s commitment to workforce diversity.

The audit, tax and advisory firm KPMG LLP is the U.S. member firm of KPMG International. KPMG International’s member firms have 123,000 professionals, including more than 7,100 partners, in 145 countries. Joe Maiorano, Executive Director of HR for KPMG LLP, spoke with LatPro recently about his firm’s diversity recruiting, training and retention strategies, crediting KPMG’s success to its people.

OSRAM SYLVANIA has been designing and manufacturing innovative lighting products for over 100 years. Throughout its rich history, the company has adapted to changing times, markets and customers, and this is also reflected in their recruiting practices. Maureen Crawford, manager of talent acquisition, sheds new light on how OSRAM SYLVANIA’s diversity initiatives make the company a more innovative and inclusive place to work.

Newell Rubbermaid, an international marketer of consumer and commercial products, employs a global workforce of approximately 30,000. Leading the Fortune 500 company’s worldwide recruiting efforts is Mike Rickheim, Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition. Mr. Rickheim shares his inside perspective on diversity recruiting at Newell Rubbermaid and its future goals for Hispanic talent acquisition.

Mae A. Douglas, a Sr. Vice President with Cox Communications, has served as the company’s Chief People Officer for 7 years. She recently spoke with LatPro about Cox Communications’ diversity strategy and the critical role that Hispanic and Bilingual employees play at the broadband communications and entertainment company.

As the Diversity Talent Strategist for IBM America, Jamila A. Petite oversees diversity recruiting efforts for the top technology corporation. She recently took time out of her busy schedule to talk with LatPro about the value of bilingual and multicultural employees, and what IBM is doing to recruit and retain a diverse workforce.