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Keysight employees often engage with the company’s science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education partners to help encourage young students. Here is just one example from this video by Keysight senior microcircuit test electrical engineer, Mohammed Ibrahim, who said “It is such an inspiration to witness the contribution that Keysight makes to foster a deeper understanding and encourage opportunities in STEM-related fields. I had an incredible experience working with the STEM Careers Coalition and Discovery Education teams to produce such work and be part of making the connection from the classroom to careers.”

Tune in to this Discovery Education STEM Careers Coalition video here.

Quest colleagues from coast-to-coast marked Lab Week 2024 with a week full of activities to celebrate our medical laboratory professionals and pathologists. As part of the celebration, we also featured highlights of the professional journeys of Quest colleagues from across the country.

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From Phlebotomist to Group Lead, Medical Laboratory Scientist
10 years at Quest
North Region – Cambridge, Massachusetts

Q: What did you initially want out of your career?
Lisa: When I first started working with Quest in phlebotomy, I wanted it to be the steppingstone into the healthcare world. I know with phlebotomy experience; I can eventually choose to become certified in a particular area like a phlebotomy Specialist or Donor Phlebotomy Technician.

Q: How has what you wanted changed over the years?
Lisa: It changed when there was an opportunity to get into diagnostic testing at an RRL (Rapid Response Laboratory). I went back to school, while still working full-time in phlebotomy. I was being trained as a Medical Laboratory Technician for a couple of years, then became a Medical Technician II. Shortly after that, I was promoted to a Medical Technologist QC (Quality Control) for point-of-care testing, as a supervisor. Eventually, I moved my way to becoming a Group Lead, Medical Laboratory Scientist at Quest’s RRL located in Cambridge, MA.

Q: Did you ever take any risks with taking on a new role and were you encouraged to move into different roles or, did you move on your own?
Lisa: Everyone takes a risk when they move into a new role because it is new and unfamiliar, and certainly questioning yourself if you have what it takes to fulfill this role. I tell myself to just do it, you never know where one role can take you. I had some encouragement to make a move. My wonderful coworkers, supervisors, and managers are always so supportive! Always congratulating me, saying how proud they are. Because of their support, it gives more motivation, and the willingness to go further, to go for it, and keep moving.

Q: What tools or offerings from Quest did you utilize to help you in your career progression? (tuition reimbursement, EMPower trainings, etc)
Lisa: Tuition reimbursement is definitely one of them. It is so great that Quest Diagnostics offers to invest in someone’s education. At the end, the company is helping me so now I am helping them in return. EMPower and Smartsolve training are very helpful to have. It is easy to forget things in the healthcare world. I see these trainings as reminders of what we need to be paying attention to on a daily basis. Being safe, while providing excellent care for patients.

Q: What advice would you give to someone who desires more from their current career?
Lisa: It starts off with the basics, getting to work on time. Not calling out every week. Show that you are dependable. Being able to work in a team and collaborate with one another. If you are a responsible and dependable worker, opportunities will come, whether it is a job promotion or going back to school for a different field. If there is something you desire, find out what you need to do to get there, and just do it.

Q: Which of our 5Cs do you connect with most, and why? (Customer First, Care, Collaboration, Continuous Improvement, Curiosity)
Lisa: I connect with Continuous Improvement a lot because we do not live in a perfect world. In a laboratory, there is a lot of room for error, and we try to minimize that as much as we can. I am always trying to continuously find ways to see what else I can do to make things better.

Originally published on GoDaddy Resource Library

By Art Martori

A sudden influx of rainbows, marches, and makeup can only mean one thing: it’s almost Pride, baby! While you may already have some Pride events in your calendar, you might be thinking that this is the year you host your own event.

We love this for you. While the cocktails, mocktails, and flags are always welcome, Pride is a time to mark solidarity, visibility, and affirmation for LGBTQIA+ communities worldwide — and it’s just as important today as it was when the first Pride was held back in 1970.

While big marches and events often take center stage, hosting your own Pride event is a powerful way to honor the struggles and triumphs of the LGBTQIA+ community while fostering inclusion and diversity.

Whether among friends and allies, in the workplace, or in your wider community, we think Pride events remain crucial. Here’s why, along with our must-have considerations for planning and hosting.

Why Pride events still matter

Pride events serve as a beacon of hope and empowerment, commemorating the Stonewall Riots of 1969 and the ongoing fight for LGBTQIA+ rights.

And while today we live in an increasingly accepting society, challenges persist, both here in the U.S. and globally, including discrimination, violence, and legislative threats.

Pride offers a platform for individuals to express their authentic selves proudly, despite societal pressures and discrimination. Read: they’re a place to let loose and have fun!

But they’re also vital for continued advocacy for equality, celebrating diversity, and providing a safe space for LGBTQIA+ individuals to meet and thrive.

Depending on where you’re thinking of hosting a Pride event, they can also be a really powerful way to educate allies and provide meaningful connections.

Planning your Pride event

Thoughtful planning is key to creating a memorable and impactful Pride event, wherever you decide to have one. A few things to consider include:

What’s your goal?

Determine the purpose of your event. Is it to raise awareness and funds, foster community among individuals, or celebrate achievements? Clarifying your objectives will guide your planning process, so it’s best to get clear on this early.

Choose an inclusive venue

If there isn’t already a pre-determined location, like your workplace, select a location that is accessible to all attendees, including those with disabilities. You’ll want to consider the venue’s reputation for inclusivity and its commitment to providing a safe space for LGBTQIA+ individuals. A good spot for selfies doesn’t hurt, either.

Keep it diverse

We come in all flavors — so ensure that your event reflects the diversity of the LGBTQIA+ community. Include representation from different identities, including people of color, transgender individuals, and those with disabilities. You might even consider partnering with LGBTQIA+ organizations to broaden your event’s reach and perspective.

Provide learning opportunities

Incorporating workshops, panels, or discussions on LGBTQIA+ history, current issues, and allyship can deepen participants’ understanding and foster a more inclusive environment. This is just as important for young queer people as it is for people who aren’t part of the LGBTQIA+ community. We have a rich, storied history that’s worth talking and learning about.

Prioritize safety and inclusivity

Implement policies and procedures to ensure the safety and comfort of all attendees. This may include providing gender-neutral restrooms, establishing a zero-tolerance policy for discrimination or rude comments, and offering support resources for individuals in need.

Hosting Pride in different settings

If you want to host your own Pride event, you’ve got options. You can make these events as big or small as you’d like and as serious or playful as you feel is appropriate.

In the workplace

Organizing a Pride event in the workplace demonstrates a commitment to diversity and inclusion. Consider hosting a lunchtime panel discussion on LGBTQIA+ experiences in the workplace, organizing a company-wide diversity training, or hosting sessions on how to be a supportive colleague. Of course, don’t skip out on decorating communal areas with Pride-themed decorations!

Community Pride event

This is an opportunity to bring together your neighbors and celebrate LGBTQIA+ culture. Collaborate with local queer organizations, businesses, and artists to host performances, art exhibits, and community forums. Parade marches, picnics, and film screenings are also popular options for community Pride celebrations. These take a bit more work, but the payoff can be huge.

Intimate gathering among friends

Hosting a small Pride gathering among friends can be just as meaningful. Create a welcoming atmosphere with Pride-themed decorations, music, and refreshments. Because this is a smaller event, you may want to play closer attention to the guest list to make it more likely that your attendees will mesh well together and hopefully even learn from one another. Encourage attendees to share their stories, experiences, and aspirations for the LGBTQIA+ community.

Closing thoughts

Hosting a Pride event is a powerful way to celebrate LGBTQIA+ identity, promote inclusivity, and advocate for equality. No matter where you hold your event, you’re helping to create an impactful experience and fostering a culture of love—and that’s what it’s all about. Happy Pride!

Small and growing businesses make a big impact on our local communities and the U.S. economy. But they don’t all have equal access to the resources, education, products, and services they need to thrive. We’re committed to helping remove those barriers, so more diverse-owned businesses can feel confident taking the next step, whatever it may be.

Meet Lori Vodraska, head of innovation and strategy for our Benefits & Protection area. She’s been helping Principal® triple the number of diverse small and midsize businesses we support by 2025. Find out more here: Financial inclusion | Principal.

For many people, accessing the medicines they need is a matter of picking up a prescription at a pharmacy or hospital. But what many don’t see is the intricate ecosystem that works to get the right medicine to them, at the right place, at the right time. Hundreds of extraordinary processes come together seamlessly to produce and deliver these medicines through the global pharmaceutical supply chain.

Many years before a patient picks up their medicine, the journey begins with drug discovery followed by research and development work as part of a closely-regulated process – intended to assure the public that approved medicines and medical devices work correctly and as intended.

To then bring an approved drug or device to patients, companies like Viatris undertake a rigorous process categorized in four steps: sourcing, manufacturing, distribution and delivery. Throughout each step of our operations, we are focused on producing, safeguarding and distributing our medicines in a safe, compliant and responsible manner along each crucial point of the supply chain.

Viatris operates a large internal network of manufacturing sites, along with many strategic partnerships to produce different medicines. This diverse network supports our ability to minimize disruption and enable supply continuity. Because no single country or company can meet the needs of all patients, the geographical range of our local, regional and global supply sites provide significant supply chain resiliency.

“At Viatris, access to medicine is fundamental to our mission and it begins with the ability to sustainably deliver high-quality medicines, to people around the world, regardless of geography or circumstance,” says Peter McCormick, Chief Supply Officer at Viatris. “Our global and diverse supply chain allows us to be nimble and flexible to better serve the evolving needs of our customers and patients in countries across the globe. It is what enables us to supply medicines to approximately 1 billion patients worldwide every year.”

Viatris was featured in the Healthier Together series, which goes behind the scenes to uncover the incredible efforts being made to create a healthier world for all. Check out our story on the importance of a global pharmaceutical supply chain for access to medicines.

Healthier Together is a video series, developed in consultation with the WHO Foundation and produced for organisations by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions.

Pepco | The Source

Pepco is proud to continue its longstanding partnership with DC SCORES, a local organization dedicated to fostering a city where every child thrives. DC SCORES runs the District’s only consistent public soccer leagues for elementary and middle school children. Through service projects, poetry, and sports, DC SCORES supports and celebrates children on and off the soccer field.

This spring, we joined forces with DC United to host an Earth Day themed event at Raymond Elementary School’s new, energy-efficient building. The event focused on engaging students with the concept of sustainability as student ambassadors led their peers in discussions around carbon footprint reduction, which serves as their service-learning project for the season.

Some of our employees were also present, helping students connect the dots between their everyday habits and their environmental impact. The interactive day culminated in a fun soccer practice with D.C. United midfielder Jared Stroud and Pepco volunteers, fostering teamwork and a sense of community among local students.

“It’s great being able to see our poet-athletes learn about our industry and the importance of keeping our planet safe and healthy, and how little actions can have great impact,” says Jason Monroy, senior corporate citizenship specialist. Jason serves on the Advisory Committee for DC SCORES, working alongside the Board of Directors to advance Pepco and DC SCORES’ goals to enhance our collective impact on the community. “I’m proud to be part of this great partnership, where I can blend my passion for community service with my love of soccer.”

This event exemplifies the spirit of our partnership with DC SCORES. By working together, we can empower young minds to become responsible citizens who appreciate the importance of sustainability. Together, we’re able to deliver meaningful impact in the neighborhoods where we live and work, leaving a lasting positive influence on the next generation.

Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

In April, leaders from across the private, public and social sectors came together in Washington, D.C., for our fourth Global Inclusive Growth Summit. Held alongside the IMF and World Bank Spring meetings, the Summit hosted a dynamic cohort of 600+ leaders and practitioners from more than 128 countries. Together, they engaged in action-oriented discussions addressing a spectrum of national and international challenges.

Watch the summit on-demand here.

Follow the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth’s journey to advance equitable and sustainable economic growth and financial inclusion around the world by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

As previously seen on the CSRHub blog.

By Bahar Gidwani

ESG Analytics is an alternative data provider owned and operated by ExtractAlpha, a Hong Kong-based data company. ESG Analytics creates and tracks non-traditional sources to measure how companies, countries and investment funds are implementing ESG (environmental, social and governance) practices. Its dataset was created for investment uses out of its founders’ frustration with what they perceived to be the slow analysis, low quality, and inherent biases of other ESG rating systems.

CSRHub has integrated a number of ESG ratings sets that are based on natural language processing (NLP) into its consensus system. ESG Analytics’ scores have a lower correlation with CSRHub’s Overall Rating than most of these other systems.

See graph showing 9% correlation between ESG Analytics score and and CSRHub overall ratings.

The strongest connection appears to be with CSRHub’s Environment subscores. While the correlation shown below is only 6%, the connection between our systems has high significance (F score > 60). This suggests that the ESG Analytics score is at least influenced by consensus views.

See graph showing 6% correlation between ESG Analytics and and CSRHub environment scores.

We suspect that ESG Analytics is looking for (and finding) different signals than those identified by our other investor-facing sources. It is also focused on “real time” transmission of signals. CSRHub’s scores react more slowly as the consensus view it is reporting gradually shifts up and down.

We feel ESG Analytics offers yet another unique perspective we can integrate into CSRHub—that of the quantitative investor analyst community. We expect some of our clients to soon test combining ESG Analytics’ short-term signal with CSRHub’s longer-term lagging information.

Bahar Gidwani is CTO and Co-founder of CSRHub. He has built and run large technology-based businesses for many years. Bahar holds a CFA, worked on Wall Street with Kidder, Peabody, and with McKinsey & Co. Bahar has consulted to a number of major companies and currently serves on the board of several software and Web companies. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree in physics and astronomy. He plays bridge, races sailboats, and is based in New York City.

About CSRHub

CSRHub offers the most comprehensive global set of Consensus ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) ratings, information, and tools. CSRHub’s business intelligence system measures the ESG business impact that drives corporate and investor sustainability decisions. Founded in 2007, CSRHub covers 55,000 public and private companies, and provides ESG performance scores on over 35,000 companies from 135 industries in 210 countries. Our Big Data platform uses algorithms to aggregate, normalize and weight ESG metrics from 933 sources to produce a strong consensus signal on corporate sustainability performance.

Space4All took center stage at the Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday, April 21, featuring a collaboration between Leidos, Darrell “Bubba” Wallace, Jr., 23XI Racing, and numerous aerospace organizations. NASCAR’s annual GEICO 500 infused a unique energy into this new national awareness campaign aimed at reaching audiences not traditionally associated with space and STEM.

Background: Space4All is a public-private partnership that aims to inspire, prepare, and employ an inclusive Space STEM workforce by sharing the excitement of space on a national scale, igniting interest in future careers in STEM and space, and revealing the many ways that space enhances our lives on Earth.

The campaign was first announced on April 8 when Vice President Kamala Harris issued a Call to Action to bring the benefits of space to communities across America.

With the United States facing a projected deficit of 3.5 million STEM workers by 2025, Space4All wants to spark widespread interest in space exploration and STEM career pathways across the nation.

Jonathan Pettus, Leidos senior vice president of aerospace systems, emphasized the critical need to address this challenge:

“Leidos is proud to contribute to the Space4All initiative, collaborating alongside our customers like the Air Force, Space Force, FAA, DoD STEM, NASA and other key organizations. Together, we are dedicated to addressing this gap by reinforcing the belief that careers in space and STEM are truly accessible to all.”

Press Conference: Pettus joined 23XI driver Bubba Wallace, retired NASA astronaut Leland Melvin, commercial astronaut Dr. Sian Proctor, and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Vice President Brian Talbot, in a press conference, held prior to the GEICO 500, announcing the launch of the campaign.

The event was marked by Wallace, Melvin, and Proctor exchanging an astronaut helmet and racecar driver fire suits — an embodiment of the collaboration fueling the initiative. Additionally, the Space4All logo proudly adorned various elements of the race, including Bubba Wallace’s iconic number 23 Leidos Toyota Camry XSE.

RELATED READING: BUBBA WALLACE AND THE CHANGING FACE OF NASCAR

What’s Next: As a leading organization spearheading the initiative, AIAA aims to expand the campaign to even more communities in the coming months:

“Through the extraordinary partnership with Leidos, we’ve kicked off this awareness campaign making a meaningful connection with people of all walks of life so they can see themselves in space and STEM,” said Brian Talbot. “This is just the beginning, and we’re excited to expand the Space Champion network, adding more space companies and educational organizations to help shape how people can directly connect the benefits of space to our lives.”

For further details and to join the journey of discovery and innovation, visit Space4All.us.  

As we continue into the next chapter of the Un-carrier, we remain committed to using our network, scale, and resources for good while building a more connected, equitable, and sustainable future for all.

We set a bold, industry-leading net-zero goal, connected hundreds of thousands more students to the internet through Project 10Million, and invested hundreds of communities across the country through nonprofit partnerships, employee giving programs, and hiring initiatives. Our progress inspires us to do more, as we pursue our mission to be the best in the world at connecting customers to their world.

This means looking at how we can do better and where we can dream bigger to have a positive impact on people and the planet together. That’s why our strategic approach to corporate responsibility focuses on where we can drive the greatest impact and propel our business and communities forward through our operations, technology, and our people in the years to come.

Through our leading 5G network, we’re championing more affordable and accessible connectivity to empower as many people as possible to succeed in today’s digital world. We’re breaking down barriers to career opportunities and investing in initiatives to develop a dynamic and diverse employee base who are equipped with the skills to continue innovating and delivering the best experiences for our customers. We also actively look at where sustainable solutions can bring wins for our business, our customers, and the planet through our products and services. We focus on doing the right things, the right way to make an impact that makes a difference.

As we continue creating a connected world where everyone can thrive, our approach to corporate responsibility will grow and adapt in ways that match the evolution of our business and technologies, the needs of our customers and communities, and the expectations of stockholders and investors. Together, we can shape a new era of connectivity with purpose.

Learn more about our ESG approach and the progress we’ve made at 

www.t-mobile.com/responsibility/reporting.