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• No. 6 in The DiversityInc Top 10 Companies for Supplier Diversity

WellPoint is a long-time diversity leader with strong support at the top. Chair, President and CEO Angela Braly reviews and signs off on diversity metrics and progress and ties executive compensation to diversity. She also chairs the executive diversity council. Linda Jimenez, vice president of diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer, is a visible and forceful internal and external spokesperson for the benefits of diversity. She formally presents diversity initiatives/findings to the board of directors, which is 45 percent women.

WellPoint has strong work/life programs, including a New Parent Transition Week and a retiree medical spending account. The company also offers adoption assistance and dependent-care benefits (including childcare and eldercare).

The company has eight resource groups that have goals around engagement, community outreach and business integration. Those goals include participation in mentoring; networking with community-based organizations; participation in initiatives aimed at improving business practices and processes; educating, serving and engaging customers/members; and expanding the marketplace. The goals are tracked and reported on an annual basis.

WellPoint directed 58 percent of philanthropy to multicultural nonprofits. Its supplier-diversity efforts have been improving dramatically, with procurement-management compensation tied to successful supplier-diversity results. WellPoint mentors and provides financial assistance to its diverse suppliers. Last year, WellPoint was inducted into the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Million Dollar Club and had a representative elected to the National Minority Supplier Development Council board of directors.

U.S. Headquarters: Indianapolis

U.S. Employees: 36,381

Last Year’s DiversityInc Top 50 Ranking: No. 36