We care about others
Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion is embedded into our values and the work we do everyday to fulfill our purpose of building secure tomorrows.
We’re building a diverse and inclusive culture from the inside out. This means creating a welcoming and empowering environment where every voice is valued and heard, and our employees feel confident bringing their full selves to work.
- We’re proactively creating an effective diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) program that is sustainable, transparent and moves us toward engraining DEI into the DNA of our organization.
- Looking through a DEI lens helps us assess our hiring practices, vendor sourcing and community giving to make these processes more equitable.
- Ultimately, long-term priorities around diversity, equity and inclusion help us be a better company.
Securian Financial's DEI program
Organizational support
Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council leads our efforts to understand, encourage and support our work to attract, develop and retain talent, foster an inclusive culture, meet our customers’ and channel partners' needs and increase community impact.
Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council is led by co-chairs CEO Chris Hilger and Chief Diversity Officer Tariq Malik. It’s a cross-functional group and includes members who represent diverse communities within the company.
Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council plays such a vital role in our DEI efforts. They ensure we are providing solutions to meet business needs, hear the voice of associates from all part of our business, and examine issues from multiple perspectives. They are our trusted advisors as we continue to build a DEI strategy and infrastructure that support Securian's purpose and is grounded in our values.
Tarik Malik
Chief Diversity Officer
Education and conversation
We invest resources to educate our employees on a range of topics, uplift diverse perspectives and discuss important issues. Our employee education has a five-point focus on awareness, equity, inclusion, allyship and cultural competence.
Since 2017, when Chris Hilger joined CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion, we’ve been educating employees on unconscious bias to form a foundation of understanding. This ongoing training series helps employees recognize biases that commonly affect — and can be harmful to — daily decisions. We’ve been building on our foundation with several initiatives:
- Ongoing encouragement helps managers have conversations with their teams about race, gender and social justice.
- Listening sessions after impactful events bring employees together to talk, listen and learn.
- DEI discussions and presentations offer ongoing learning opportunities.
- Book discussion circles build comfort and perspective in talking about DEI topics.
Workforce development
A more diverse workforce helps us continue building DEI into our company’s DNA. We're focusing on recruitment, development and retention programs and measuring our progress to help us get there.
Recruiting and hiring
Our ongoing key actions include:
- Expanding college recruiting efforts within underrepresented populations by deepening our engagement with multicultural student groups.
- Participating in professional organizations and events targeted to people of color, veterans and women in technology.
- Leveraging relationships and events for mid-career professionals to build a pipeline for management-level roles.
We’ve also implemented tools to reduce bias in the hiring process, including:
- Competency-based interview guides that help our talent management team and hiring managers focus on job candidates’ skills and behaviors.
- Unconscious bias micro-learnings that hiring managers review prior to the interview process to help mitigate bias.
Development
Extensive resources and learning and development programs help our employees build skills and enhance their lives — at work and outside of it. This includes a new mentorship program focused on helping people of color and women advance in their careers.
Retention
Retaining our employees is just as important as getting them in the door. Our six Employee Resource Groups play a pivotal role in helping employees feel connected and supported through tailored programming. Each has executive sponsors, and direct support of the DEI office and the DEI Council.
A diverse workplace enables meaningful collaboration, insightful decisions and personal growth for employees. Securian Financial will continue building a culture where all employees feel welcomed and empowered to make a difference for our customers, communities and each other.
Chris Hilger
Chairman, President and CEO
Supplier diversity
As our communities diversify, our supplier base should too, so we actively purchase goods and services from diverse businesses. It's one way we can help other businesses pursue their own secure tomorrows.
We define diverse suppliers as minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, veteran-owned businesses, LGBTQ+-owned businesses and disabled-owned businesses.
By working with these businesses, we help them fulfill their purposes and empower theirown employees while meeting our business needs.
Community
Through the Securian Financial Foundation and programs that engage our employees in volunteerism, we take an active role in strengthening our communities.
Closing gaps in our educational system is critical to building an equitable playing field for the future. We've refined our giving programs to directly support underrepresented members of our communities.
- Focusing on equity in education, we’re giving special attention to closing the achievement gap that holds back disadvantaged populations in our communities.
- We are building on investments to put computer devices, broadband and other educational support tools in the hands of our students who are most in need.
- A major financial commitment will fund community-based learning initiatives in neighborhoods of Minneapolis and St. Paul that need them the most.
Securian Financial Group, Inc. does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital or familial status, pregnancy, disability, genetic information, political affiliation, veteran status, status in regard to public assistance or any other protected status. If you are a job seeker with a disability and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please contact us by email at Employment@Securian.com, by telephone 651-655-5522 (voice), or 711 (Relay/TTY).
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