The Houston Business Journal will celebrate companies and business professionals promoting and advancing diversity at its 2021 Diversity in Business Awards during a live broadcast in March. Below are the corporate honorees that will be recognized.
First introduced in 2017, the Diversity in Business Awards program honors organizations and individuals who have shown exceptional commitment to promoting practices that advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace, as well as in business leadership. Honorees bolster equality across all areas of diversity, including age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, race and religion. Click here to see the inaugural year’s winners.
Honorees will be featured in a special publication and recognized in an awards ceremony. To read more about the honorees, check out the Houston Business Journal’s special Diversity in Business Awards section in the March 26 edition, available to HBJ print and digital subscribers. To subscribe, click here.
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HBJ will celebrate all honorees during a live broadcast beginning at 2 p.m. on March 25. Click here for more information and to register.
All of the 53 companies selected as honorees are listed below in alphabetical order by category. They are divided into three awards categories: Outstanding Diverse Organizations, Outstanding Supplier Diversity and Outstanding Diversity Helping Hand. The Outstanding Diverse Organizations is also subdivided by company size.
Click here to see the individual honorees.
Outstanding Diverse Organizations identifies for-profit or nonprofit organizations that have contributed to harnessing diversity within their workforces and actively taken the lead to promote and champion the business case for diversity within the community or their industries. Companies in this category will be awarded by the size of their organizations — small, medium and large.
Small companies (10-99 employees)
Medium companies (100-499 employees)
Large companies (500+ employees)
Outstanding Supplier Diversity recognizes companies that successfully seek out and do business with minority suppliers.
Outstanding Diversity Helping Hand recognizes for-profit and nonprofit organizations that have shown dedication to promoting and championing diversity and inclusion in the business community or are supplying diversity-related resources, such as job sites, diversity training programs and e-learning during 2019/2020.
