I, Susan Street Whaley, personally commit to the following:

Personal Commitment 

• I will take intentional actions to drive a culture within our Legal/GR organization, and throughout P&G, that is inclusive and encourages difference and diversity as a strength within impactful teams, so that all team members bring their authentic selves to work (recognizing that I must be a role model).  
• I will drive   equality (and thus our effectiveness) through increasing the diversity of our team and then ensuring access to impactful roles and development opportunities.  This includes maintaining a diverse recruiting committee and talent councils; requiring diverse slates in hiring; dissecting every staffing decision and promotion recommendation to ensure equal opportunity free from bias; and meeting our diversity commitments as agreed with the company. 
  
• I will work to ensure that all members of the organization understand the benefits of equality and inclusion to our organization and our business, so that we all work together on our goals, rather than placing responsibility for the goals strictly on our diverse teammates. 
  
• I will ensure that our organization’s managers of others are held accountable for demonstrating inclusive behaviors that results in all team members feeling valued and able to bring their full selves to work. 
  
• I will intentionally develop my own leadership in a way that is inclusive; that prioritizes continuous learning and incorporates understanding of diverse team members by seeking out and hearing their perspectives and goals; and that inspires and drives them to make a meaningful impact on our business and in the profession. 
• I will work with other senior Company leader to strategically integrate E&I into our business and organizational actions and decisions and to reach our company aspiration of having 40% multicultural representation among our employees.  
  
• I will role model “straight talk” with my leadership team and seek for them to do the same with me so that we  “ agree to provide real-time feedback about our actions to each other and what they convey about our commitment to E&I.
• I will reward and recognize individuals and teams in our Legal/GR organization who demonstrate tangible commitment and contributions to E&I and hold the leaders accountable as E&I champions. 
• I will work with law firm leaders to break down incumbency practices that inhibit leadership and business access opportunities for diverse lawyers. 
  

Organizational Commitment 

• Actively promote and ensure our Legal organization supports P&G’s E&I Aspirations, Actions, Outcomes: We are Unique and We are United, including its four main pillars: 
  
  • Employees: We strive to be a company and create a culture where our employees are able to show up to work as their whole, authentic selves, and feel safe in doing so. 
  • Brands: We build the world’s most trusted and valued brands by serving people in an inclusive way, bringing visibility to the uniqueness of their humanity. 
  • Partners: We build equality and inclusion into key areas of our supply and value ecosystem by expanding opportunity – and partnering with others to advance critical priority areas for the company – we can accelerate growth of human beings and business. 
  • Communities: We commit to diversity, equality, equity, and inclusivity, to identify the gaps that create inequity, and to develop the strategies that can change experiences, lives, and whole communities. When we expand opportunity, we accelerate growth. 
• Sponsor, promote and ensure execution of our Legal/GR Organization’s current E&I Action Plan and its four main objectives and continually look for ways to expand our actions and influence more outside of the U.S.
• Recruit: Drive activity systems that deliver enrollment goals at all levels for global women and U.S. minorities by requiring diverse candidate pools and increasing leadership accountability.  Intentionally build relationships with law schools and participate in early talent development programs to provide internship opportunities to diverse college and law school students in order to build a sustainable pipeline of talent to P&G. 
• Retain: Make P&G an irresistible choice for diverse Legal/GR talent by continuing to drive accountability with managers of diverse employees and identifying early needed interventions related to the development of diverse talent.  Work to shift our mindset from “retention” and a reactive posture to “continual attraction” and a more proactive posture to ensure all of our employees, but especially our diverse employees, want to fulfill their career at P&G.  
• Culture: Create an inclusive and learning culture by leveraging learnings from external and internal programs to identify opportunities for improvement, and inject fresh ideas, energy, and approaches. 
• External: Expand and grow partnership program with key US law firms, which involves action-oriented joint commitments aimed at deepening P&G’s relationships with diverse law firm talent. 

• Sponsor and support our Legal/GR Working Together team’s Active Allies’ efforts and progress, focused on racial equality.  
• Work with external organizations to strengthen our own E&I practices and to help drive E&I in the legal profession, ensuring that as a community we are joining together and leveraging each other’s ideas, programs and content for the improvement and engagement of all, personally engaging when I can be more impactful.