No. 40: Time Warner

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Why It’s on the List

Time Warner’s Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Bewkes personally signs off on executive compensation tied to diversity. He also meets regularly with the company’s resource groups and personally reviews and signs off on diversity metrics and progress.

Half of Time Warner’s managers participate in its cross-cultural mentoring programs. The programs have formal follow-up and there is cultural-awareness training for mentors. The company has measurable goals for assessing the success of its mentoring programs, and it internally communicates the benefits of these programs.

Time Warner’s resource groups are open to all employees, and it ensures employees across the company understand the value of joining these groups. Senior executives are members of each group, which are used for marketing, recruitment and talent development. Twenty-five percent of employees are members of at least one resource group. The company measures the success of the groups by their ability to align events with business objectives, retention and overall company engagement. The groups also provide feedback on diversity training and other diversity initiatives.

Diversity training is mandatory for all employees and is offered on a monthly basis. There are metrics in place to measure the success, as well as formal follow-up.

Fifty percent of Time Warner’s philanthropic endeavors were directed to multicultural nonprofits, including the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund.
Diversity Leadership
Jeffrey L. Bewkes Photo Jeffrey L. Bewkes
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer:

“Across our company, our business is storytelling, and we are passionate about it. We tell stories in the form of television shows, feature films, documentaries, news programming or digital products. As a company, our success is driven by our ability to harness the most creative, freshest ideas and to market and distribute them to an increasingly diverse domestic market and a vast global audience.”
Lisa Garcia Quiroz Photo Lisa Garcia Quiroz
Senior Vice President, Corporate Responsibility & Chief Diversity Officer:

“At Time Warner, we know that talent is not exclusive to one gender, race, ethnicity or sexual orientation. Understanding and respecting differences, as well as appreciating that which unites us all, is at the core of both who we are and what we do as the world’s leading media company.”
Company Information

U.S. Headquarters: New York

Global Employees: 34,000

U.S. Employees: 22,675

Last Year’s DiversityInc Top 50 Ranking: No. 28
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