Shaquana Burton
HR Manager/Regional Diversity & Inclusion Lead
Detroit, Michigan
Purolator is a diverse organization. For us, this means committing to further conversations and actions around diversity and inclusion within the workplace, and the communities we serve, to help ensure our organization continues to grow as a place where all of us can be treated with respect and equality, while also celebrating our differences.
It is very important that we continue the conversation of Diversity and Inclusion. To continue the conversation and education on D&I, we offer focused websites on D&I with a host of resources, panel discussions, a feature in our weekly newsletter, and updates during the Monthly Business Review.
We have identified areas of focus such as more women in leadership roles, an increase in people of color in leadership roles, and increased overall diversity within the organization. We have approached these focus areas by incorporating diversity in hiring practices, launched a development program for minority staff and created a dashboard to track achievements against goals.
Different events that we have hosted include a Selma Movie Review Discussion for MLK Day and Black History Month, a panel discussion for International Women’s Month, and entire months focused on Mental Health Awareness, Pride Month, Juneteenth, and Indigenous People events just to name a few.