Month: August 2026

PITTSBURGH, August 6, 2026 /3BL/ – Wesco’s Veterans Opportunity Liaison Team (VOLT) Business Resource Group, through sponsorship from Wesco Cares, partnered with the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) to support its STEM/Engineering & Construction Camps, helping introduce students to hands-on experiences in engineering, construction, leadership and problem solving. SAME’s camps provide immersive STEM opportunities for students and serve more than 300 participants annually across multiple camp locations.

As part of the partnership, the Wesco Safety team worked with Ansell to donate 330 pairs of safety glasses and gloves to help equip campers across five camps for hands-on activities that bring STEM learning to life. The contribution reflects Wesco’s commitment to supporting education, workforce development and safe learning environments.

 

The initiative was led by VOLT, a Wesco Business Resource Group, and sponsored through Wesco Cares, the company’s global community engagement program. The partnership aligns with VOLT’s mission to support veterans, military-connected communities and future generations of leaders through service and community engagement.

“At Wesco, we believe in investing in the next generation of innovators and problem-solvers,” said Don Snowden, Wesco Senior Vice President and General Manager, Communications Security Solutions and VOLT Executive Sponsor. “Through the support of Wesco Cares, this partnership with SAME allowed us to contribute both resources and expertise to a program that helps students explore STEM careers while developing leadership, teamwork and technical skills.”

SAME’s STEM/Engineering & Construction Camps are designed to introduce high school students to engineering, science and construction careers through real-world challenges, mentorship opportunities and hands-on learning experiences. The camps bring together military leaders, industry professionals and students to foster curiosity, collaboration and career exploration.

 

“Supporting STEM education is one of the most meaningful ways we can invest in the future,” said Don. “We’re proud to support VOLT’s partnership with SAME and help create opportunities that inspire young people to pursue careers that will help build, connect, power and protect the world.”

By partnering with organizations like SAME, VOLT and Wesco Cares continue to demonstrate Wesco’s commitment to strengthening communities, supporting military-connected organizations and helping develop the workforce of tomorrow. To learn more about Wesco in the community, visit Wesco.com. 

About Wesco

Wesco International (NYSE: WCC) builds, connects, powers and protects the world. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wesco is a FORTUNE 500® company with approximately $24 billion in annual sales in 2025 and a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services and supply chain solutions. Wesco offers a best-in-class product and services portfolio of Electrical and Electronic Solutions, Communications and Security Solutions, and Utility and Broadband Solutions. The Company employs approximately 21,000 people, partners with the industry’s premier suppliers, and serves thousands of customers around the world. With millions of products, end-to-end supply chain services, and significant digital capabilities, Wesco provides innovative solutions to meet customer needs across commercial and industrial businesses, technology companies, telecommunications providers, and utilities. Wesco operates more than 700 sites, including distribution centers, fulfillment centers, and sales offices in approximately 50 countries, providing a local presence for customers and a global network to serve multi-location businesses and global corporations.

About SAME

Founded in 2016, the SAME Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to fostering engineering leadership for the nation. The Foundation supports STEM education, workforce development, and leadership programs that strengthen national resilience. Learn more at same.org/foundation.

Contact Information:

Jennifer Sniderman
Vice President, Corporate Communications
Jennifer.sniderman@wescodist.com

MetLife

MetLife’s foundation of learning and professional development enhances our workforce’s ability to move with speed and discipline to deliver results in a changing world. Our approach emphasizes building business-critical skills and empowering employees to pursue development opportunities. We create impactful learning experiences through a combination of virtual, hybrid, in-person and individual self-paced opportunities, where our people can collaborate and learn from one another.

Investing in Learning and Development

MyLearning provides access to digital learning resources such as articles, books, videos, webinars and courses. By adding “focus skills” to their MyLearning profiles, employees receive AI-based recommendations to learning resources to personalize their development needs.

Growing@MetLife showcases the many learning and development resources available to our people and reflects our strong culture of feedback, which is critical to employee engagement. Through ongoing career and development conversations with their managers, employees receive feedback on their strengths and identify opportunities to build skills and reach their potential.

Following these conversations, employees use MetLife’s online platform to create individualized development plans and access a wide range of personalized learning options, with a majority of employees now having a development plan in place. Growing@MetLife also hosts career workshops to help employees create development plans, prepare for interviews and explore their next opportunity.

In addition, employees can access on‑demand coaching through Coaching@MetLife, which offers support from internally certified coaches. The program focuses on helping employees unlock their potential by giving them space to develop their skills, work through challenges and gain confidence to advance their careers.

Our global internal talent marketplace, MyPath, allows employees to manage their own professional development by providing opportunities for experiential learning and skill-building while enhancing how we serve our customers and grow as individuals. The platform uses AI-based recommendations to match employees to opportunities based on their self-identified skills, experiences and ambitions. MetLife updated MyPath to include internal apprenticeship roles, connecting employees interested in building new skills via direct experience with subject matter experts seeking to strengthen their leadership and knowledge-sharing capabilities. For leaders, apprenticeships offer an opportunity to build the team they need to innovate, stretch and grow.

MetLife also offers deep-skilling programs to train our people with the skills they need to be future‑ready, offering high‑quality, industry‑relevant learning delivered in local languages. To support business strategy in the U.S., for example, we offer a two‑day financial and business acumen boot camp for select leaders. The program focuses on the drivers of MetLife’s financial performance, including an understanding of our primary products and services.

In addition, mandatory training helps employees stay current on regulatory requirements; understand how to protect one another, the Company and our customers; and support key MetLife priorities. Please see Responsible Governance for additional information.

Empowering Employees to Use AI

As an organization intent on transforming performance into growth, MetLife is continuously evolving. AI is a force multiplier for the business—augmenting human ingenuity and enabling teams to move with greater speed, clarity and confidence.

To capitalize on this emerging technology and unlock capacity, we’re empowering every employee across the enterprise to upskill in AI and leverage technologies that remove friction, automate routine work and enable a greater focus on higher-value outcomes. Employees have access to AI tools and are encouraged to identify opportunities where AI can drive efficiencies and create smarter, more responsive customer experiences.

Our AI Academy online training portal offers certifications and courses in generative AI, critical thinking and prompt engineering. It’s designed to meet employees where they are on their AI journey, featuring courses for users at every skill level and business function.

Building Strong Leaders

Through targeted leader workshops, ongoing coaching and year-round feedback resources, we equip people leaders with the skills needed to deliver effective performance feedback, communicate compensation outcomes clearly and hold meaningful career conversations. These experiences emphasize practical application, supporting leaders in setting clear goals, enabling continuous performance development and supporting employees’ growth.

To further strengthen leadership effectiveness, MetLife’s Leader Expectations Tool provides leaders with actionable feedback from team members on their demonstration of core leadership behaviors. The tool helps leaders translate feedback into clear development priorities, identify specific actions to strengthen their capabilities and continuously improve how they lead their teams in alignment with MetLife’s values and growth priorities.

Centering Training and Development on Our Strategy

New Frontier challenges our workforce to focus on what matters most to drive sustainable growth and long‑term performance. To support this shift, we introduced a set of development experiences designed to help employees understand the strategy and their role in bringing it to life.

Employees participated in Strategy Days—immersive, interactive workshops centered on New Frontier. Through these experiences, employees explored how the strategy prioritizes high‑impact work, leverages technology to improve efficiency, and relies on collaboration and transparency to succeed.

We complemented Strategy Days with ongoing training and targeted campaigns that offered practical guidance and accessible resources. These efforts helped employees apply New Frontier principles in their day‑to‑day work, build business and financial acumen, leverage AI, and focus their time and energy on work that drives the greatest value and impact.

Learn more about how MetLife is developing talent and employee skills in the MetLife 2025 Sustainability Report

Originally published on 3M News Center

When golfers select a club, they want something that will deliver consistency, distance and control. Achieving that level of performance on the course requires an extraordinary effort behind the scenes — that’s where the partnership between PING and 3M shines.

By pairing PING’s expertise in club design and custom manufacturing with 3M’s broad portfolio of materials science solutions, the two companies can collaborate on engineering solutions that turn complex technical challenges into repeatable, high-quality results on the course.

Watch 3M and PING in action to see how science and craftsmanship come together on the factory floor.

Technology at every stage of manufacturing

Building a modern golf club requires exacting standards, from individual fittings to component preparation, custom manufacturing and final delivery. Inside PING’s facilities, 3M technologies are woven throughout the entire process to help meet each athlete’s expectations.

“We see 3M as a very closely integrated partner,” said Oscar Mortera, director of manufacturing engineering, PING. “They help us through almost every step — from when materials arrive in the warehouse to when a club is scanned for shipping at the end of production.”

Whether enabling accurate component bonding, supporting surface preparation with precision abrasives or providing durable tracking labels, 3M solutions help ensure quality and efficiency across the production process.  

“3M enables our innovation,” added Ryan Stokke, director of product design, PING. “When we’re excited about a creative new pathway, and we have an engineering idea, we look to 3M to pair it with a great engineering solution. They help us overcome specific challenges so we can deliver a better golf club.”

Built to survive the extreme —– from freezers to ovens

Before any club reaches a golfer’s hands, it undergoes extreme environmental and mechanical validation to guarantee performance under tough conditions.

Inside PING’s durability lab, 3M epoxies and adhesive tapes are put to the ultimate test using “”PING Man,” PING’s legendary robotic testing system.

“We’ll put clubs in the freezer for two hours, then hit balls with PING Man and see if the club survives,” explained Doug Conatser, senior analysis and testing supervisor, PING. “If it does, it immediately goes into an oven at 200 degrees Fahrenheit for a couple of hours before hitting more shots. It’s an extensive environmental and thermal cycling of the 3M products, and they stand up to that wide temperature range.”

Turning innovation into results

From the factory floor to the first tee, the collaboration between 3M and PING demonstrates how science, engineering, and shared passion come together to elevate the game for golfers worldwide.

FAQ

What is the partnership between 3M and PING?

The partnership brings together PING’s expertise in golf club design and custom manufacturing with 3M materials science and technology. Together, the companies collaborate on solutions that support performance, precision, quality and consistency in golf club production.

How are 3M technologies used in PING golf clubs?

3M technologies support multiple stages of PING’s manufacturing process, including component bonding, surface preparation, precision abrasives, durable tracking labels, epoxies and adhesive tapes. These solutions—including 3M™ Trizact™, 3M™ Scotch-Weld™ and more—help PING meet exacting standards from production through final delivery.

Why are adhesives, tapes and abrasives important in golf club manufacturing?

Golf clubs must perform consistently under demanding conditions, so materials used in manufacturing need to support strength, durability and precision. Adhesives, tapes and abrasives help connect components, prepare surfaces and maintain quality throughout the production process.

We have heard from many CSR leaders who are eager to develop their strategy and increase their impact, but they are underfunded, underresourced, and overworked. They lack the budget to bring in additional staff or consultants. Even when they secure funding, it is often difficult to devote the necessary time to strategic planning.

CSR Talent Group was started to help address this problem. We’ve recruited consultants with the unique experience necessary to create or provide a strategy refresh, helping CSR leaders move forward and address critical issues with a minimal budget.

By way of example, a new consultant in our network, first worked for several companies, and has spent the last 30 years advising hundreds of companies—including many of the Fortune 50—on their CSR strategy and approach. She determined that many companies would benefit from a short-term, highly focused approach that provides a strategic roadmap while acknowledging their budget and availability limitations.

Few individuals possess the combination of corporate and deep consulting experience that provides the perspective, knowledge and expertise needed to help companies advance their programs. However, CSR Talent Group has many individuals who meet that criteria.

If you need a powerful boost to your CSR strategy, we have the individual who can help. Let’s find a moment to discuss. Reach out to me at knowlton@csrtalentgroup.com and we can schedule a time to connect.

Tom Knowlton,
CEO, CSR Talent Group