Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Connect communities internally and externally to opportunities with Tesla Our Roadmap We focused a great deal of our efforts on expanding our Community Engagement and ensuring our employees stayed connected during the global pandemic. Our DEI Roadmap—outlined below—highlights the steps we We expanded our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and were hyper focused on ensuring our programming was accessible in will continue to take in order to improve on our diversity and the new remote work environment. We welcomed Asian Pacific Islanders at Tesla to our ERG family. While this was a time of inclusion metrics and integrate DEI best practices into our uncertainty and change, through our ERGs, we ensured our employees felt more heard and connected than ever before as they business operations. Our approach is simple: pivoted to virtual events to promote inclusion across different locations, physical boundaries and time zones. Focus In response to the global outcry for social justice sparked by the murder of George Floyd, we developed our internal Listen to on attracting, developing and retaining excellent talent Understand Series. The series is a monthly listening opportunity for all employees to witness powerful storytelling from our Integrate leaders and colleagues as a way to better understand the challenges some members of underrepresented communities face in their quest to bring their whole selves to work and build understanding and empathy for one another to help us all navigate diversity, equity and inclusion principles and practices into our relationships at work and home. Topics we had the opportunity to discuss include overcoming imposter syndrome, the DNA of our company navigating unconscious bias and perceptions, addressing the impact of microaggressions as well as other practical ways to Connect foster allyship and inclusivity to allow our employees to always bring whole selves to work. communities internally and externally to opportunities with We formalized collaboration between the DEI, Supply Chain and Government Affairs teams to ensure local minority, women, Tesla LGBTQ, disabled and veteran owned businesses are connected to opportunities with Tesla. Tesla recognizes that supplier diversity creates a competitive advantage for the company and has a positive impact on the global community. As the supplier diversity program develops, we will implement plans that encourage increased usage of diverse suppliers throughout our organization, partner with internal and external stakeholders to identify opportunities for diverse suppliers and work with external partners to encourage capacity building for diverse suppliers. At Tesla, we strive to have a diverse supply chain and provide the maximum practical opportunities to provide goods and services as a part of the corporate procurement process. Intersectionality 75
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