Nestlé in society Creating Shared Value and meeting our commitments 2015

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In Switzerland during 2014, the Senior Women at Nestlé
Group was created. It is a movement with a strong commitment
to help accelerate Nestlé’s journey to becoming a genderbalanced
company by 2018. Together, the group seeks to:
• Be role models to upcoming talent;
• Participate in high-profile projects, ensuring diversity and
complementarity of thinking within the team; and
• Ensure Nestlé is recognised as an employer of choice for
men and women in external speaking engagements.
Celebrating International Women’s Day 2015
International Women’s Day represents an opportunity to celebrate
the achievements of women, while calling for greater equality. At
Nestlé, events took place to mark the occasion across our
business, including social media posts that were published to
more than 1 million followers. Our employee chat room received
more than 145 posts, with topics covering managing work–life
balance, key elements of success and critical competencies,
unconscious bias, leadership style, mobility, mentoring, personal
branding and career learning experiences.
At Nestlé Professional, an internal video was produced
celebrating the important contribution that women are making to
the business across the Sales function.
It takes dedication and focus, but it also takes
top-level managers to acknowledge their bias and
see the great potential in a candidate with different
leadership and communication styles.”
Employee post: Mikala Larsen, Management
Development Manager
BE WOMEN. By this, I mean embracing our female
traits and leveraging those as strengths rather than
trying to mask them to be successful in a ‘man’s
world’. Studies show these ‘traditionally feminine’
traits are what is missing in much business
leadership today.”
Vanessa Blewitt, Learning Effectiveness Lead
Nestlé Pakistan, in collaboration with Aurat Foundation,
organised a platform event where inspiring and successful
women shared their stories with others. The theme for the event
was ‘Making it happen: inspirational stories of Pakistani women
turning the tide’.
Nestlé Philippines continued to run its Women Movers Awards,
an initiative to raise awareness of the contribution women make to
its business. In 2015, 52 nominees were received across all sites
and factories. Senator Pia Cayetano was invited as a guest speaker
at an awards ceremony held at the Nestlé Philippines head office.
A champion of women’s rights, health and education, and the
youngest woman ever to be elected to the Philippine Senate,
Senator Pia shared her own inspiring story with our employees.
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