Craig Glidden

Executive Vice President, Global Public Policy & General Counsel — General Motors

I, Craig Glidden, personally commit to the following:

To be a leader in my organization, my community, and the legal profession concerning diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I).
To ensure that DE&I is an integral part of my law department’s recruiting, development, advancement, and succession planning.
To speak with my organization’s Strategic Legal Partnering (SLP) firms every quarter about the importance of DE&I to me and GM.
To support and advance LCLD and professional organizations that advance DE&I.

To support GM’s Chairman & CEO, our Senior Leadership Team, and our Inclusion Advisory Board to advance DE&I initiatives within the company and strive to become the world’s most inclusive company.
To continue advancing the five key DE&I initiatives led by GM’s Legal Staff: Awareness & Training, Policy Reform, Education & Economic Opportunity, Public Health, and Finance Initiatives.
To ensure that DE&I is discussed during our Legal Leadership Team meetings.
To commit to diverse slates for new positions, and continue growing, developing, and advancing diverse attorneys into executive and leadership roles.
To continue utilizing the diversity dashboard to ensure our SLP firms are supporting our matters with diverse attorneys.

Strive for 20% increase over our 2020 racial minority utilization and improve in our total diversity utilization across our SLP firms.
Host four speakers each year to address DE&I topics with our Legal Staff.