These companies have high percentages of managers participating in formal, cross-cultural mentoring and significant involvement from senior leadership. This results in more diversity in the talent pipeline to the top. This list examines best practices including:
- Whether demographics of mentees are comparable to or more diverse than the existing management demographics
- Percentage of mentoring pairs that are cross-cultural
- Whether mentors receive cultural-competence training
- Whether the mentoring program has measurable goals

- AT&T
- ADP
- Hilton
- Johnson & Johnson
- EY
- Kaiser Permanente
- PwC
- Marriott International, Inc.
- Sodexo
- The Boeing Company
- KPMG
- Accenture
- Eli Lilly Company
- Abbott