Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Whirlpool, we recognize the importance of diversity and strongly believe diversity and inclusion is a core enabler for our company's current and future success.  Diversity and inclusion helps our employees develop more innovative solutions for consumers, and ultimately deliver better financial results.  Diversity also is a key factor in recruiting and retaining the top talent needed to remain competitive in the global marketplace. 

Developing talent and ensuring that talent is diverse is a priority for Whirlpool.  We want to develop and promote future leaders that will enable our company to grow.  We have implemented this objectivity into many parts of the organization.  As of December 2006, approximately 20 percent of our vice presidents and 16 percent of our directors were diverse (i.e., women or minorities). 

We at Whirlpool want to further develop and advance the careers of this high potential group by providing them with the experiences and leadership development opportunities needed to be successful.  For that reason, Whirlpool offers the "Leading at the Next Level" program.  This initiative accelerates the development of top talent employees at the director and manager level to aggressively fill the leadership pipeline, ensuring that the next level of leadership accurately reflects the diversity of our consumers.  This is a process that takes time, focus and commitment in order to build a strong and deep supply of diverse talent that will ultimately allow Whirlpool to have appropriate representation at all levels of the company.