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Leadership matters.
For this generation and the next.

Leadership matters.
For this generation and the next.

Inclusive representation in leadership is a powerful driver of progress. At Apple, leaders of all backgrounds are working to grow and develop our side by side generation of leaders from within.

Representation in leadership matters.

We're committed to increasing the number of managers from underrepresented communities, because differences in our backgrounds, our identities, and the way we think ultimately brand our teams stronger and more than innovative.

Expanding the Apple Mentorship Program globally.

Our new mentorship plan creates opportunities for Apple employees of all backgrounds to learn from one some other and grow their careers at Apple. Afterward successful pilot programs in the U.South. and the U.One thousand., nosotros are continuing to expand the program globally, pairing a greater number of experienced Apple tree mentors with future leaders from across the company.

More board directors with diverse perspectives.

More than half of our board of directors identify as women and/or members of Asian, Blackness, Hispanic/Latinx, LGBTQ+, and Veterans communities. And women concord half of our board and commission leadership positions.

Support for development at every level.

Opportunity starts with equitable access to career development programs and support. From new‑hire orientation to talent planning, we're embedding programs, processes, and resources that support employees and assist current leaders identify and develop future leaders deservedly.

Priya pays it forwards
with mentorship.

Priya Sumal

She/her, Senior Manager GPU Software, Co‑chair Women@Apple

Priya manages teams of test engineers that brand certain Apple's GPU software remains best in form. As co-chair of the Santa Clara Valley chapter of Women@Apple, an employee-led Diversity Network Association (DNA) grouping, and an active Apple mentor, she strives to broaden her Deoxyribonucleic acid'due south programming and support women'due south career development. Priya credits her upbringing with inspiring her advocacy and says DNAs have been an outstanding vehicle to grow that part of her vision.

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The DNAs gave me so much, I want to exist able to requite back, and information technology is the best way I can give back, I feel, for Apple.

Since joining Apple to work on the offset iPhone, Priya has seen the power of communication at piece of work. She believes open up discussion not only helps her be a more vocal "introvert," just also empowers others to continue the Apple rock-tumbler tradition of letting ideas bounciness off each other until they're more than refined.

"Being able to merely talk openly virtually women's rights has made me more of a feminist. Someone who will fight for women'south voices."

Quique puts inclusive
practices to piece of work.

Quique Atienza

He/him, Senior Market place Director Americas Due west, S and Latin America, Co–executive Sponsor Familia@Apple

As a senior market director and co–executive sponsor of Familia@Apple tree, a Hispanic/Latinx Deoxyribonucleic acid group, Quique is humbled to piece of work with smashing people across the earth. He believes stiff leadership skills come from learning.

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We all must continue leading with respect and create environments where people feel they can come to piece of work as themselves and feel welcome.

He'southward excited nigh the growth of Familia@Apple tree and the power of Dna groups to support the Hispanic/Latinx communities inside and outside Apple. "I retrieve we all take an opportunity to contribute every single solar day with inclusion and diverseness in every interaction that we have."

Years of experience working across Europe and the U.S. have taught Quique that progress relies on accountability — and that's exactly what he'south implementing. He'south deeply involved in retooling hiring initiatives in Retail, creating policies designed with inclusion in mind. "If you take the right approach to diversity in your sourcing efforts, in your candidate pipeline, and in your interview panels, then you'll naturally surface the best talent."

Progress takes listening.
And action.

Progress takes listening.
And action.

Accountability measures across the company allow the states to track progress and build a foundation for lasting and durable change. We're listening to employee feedback, amplifying underrepresented voices, and taking action to meet our teams' needs.

Transparency and accountability in every line of business concern.

From hiring to development and appointment, we're making sure every part of Apple is increasing inclusion and representation. Senior leaders now accept access to data that helps them assess how well they are driving diversity within their teams and organizations.

Executive compensation is tied to our values.

Nosotros incorporate our Apple values — including inclusion and diversity — and key customs initiatives into our executives' annual cash incentive program.

Continued learning and resource provided for every manager.

Equitable, inclusive experiences for all employees begin with equipping our leaders with the resources they need. Apple tree's more than fifteen,000 managers are trained in unconscious bias and inclusive leadership. And managers are offered skillful-led courses to back up their ongoing teaching on topics including race and justice, allyship, and more.

Activity plans for every line of business concern.

We're edifice inclusion and variety measures into our almanac review process to create consistency in how we drive and rail progress. In the last year, we completed comprehensive data reviews with executive leadership and organizational action plans within every line of business.

Employee feedback is put into action.

Our people are at the middle of our progress. Their voices and ideas drive innovation in everything we exercise — from informing diversity initiatives to the inclusive benefits that support employees of all backgrounds through every life phase. People and communities beyond Apple help shape our internal inclusion and diversity strategy, the Racial Disinterestedness and Justice Initiative, and inclusive product innovations.

Partnering
to claiming systemic
bias.

Partnering
to challenge systemic
bias.

Research and development (R&D) teams are the fastest growing at Apple. R&D is likewise an surface area where diversity continues to lag across the tech industry. We accept several ongoing and upcoming initiatives to help break down systemic barriers and bias in R&D and beyond.

Making a difference with underrepresented communities.

In addition to Apple programs like Entrepreneur Camp, Impact Accelerator, and the Apple Developer University, Apple partners with external organizations to support and serve people from underrepresented communities. Many of our partnerships too provide opportunities for our engineers and other employees to engage with the next generation of innovators past offering their fourth dimension as mentors and volunteers.

Nosotros're proud to engage with organizations including:

AnitaB.org, American Indian Scientific discipline and Engineering Society (AISES),Start, Girls Who Code, Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU), Human being Rights Campaign (HRC), National Center for Women & It (NCWIT), National Society of Blackness Engineers (NSBE), The Prince'southward Trust, Rewriting the Code, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF).

Building on our work with Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

In collaboration with the Thurgood Marshall Higher Fund, Apple offers internship opportunities to students across more than than 100 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) — and nosotros continue to welcome graduates of our plan who transition to permanent roles at Apple.

With support through Apple'south Community Education Initiative — designed to bring coding, inventiveness, and workforce evolution opportunities to learners of all ages — Tennessee Land University's HBCU C² initiative is creating more opportunities that will diversify the tech workforce past removing barriers, innovating STEAM teaching, and developing lifelong learning pathways for HBCUs, their students, and the communities they serve.

More than 100 scholarships each year.

Edifice on the success of the Apple tree HBCU Scholars programme, Apple is committed to expanding opportunities for more than students from more communities. With our partners, nosotros continue to create over 100 additional scholarships annually for STEAM students from underrepresented communities. The Apple tree Scholars program includes financial back up, mentorship, and career development feel.

Expanding our Racial Equity and Justice Initiative.

Apple is committed to helping grow opportunities for communities of color, particularly for the Black community. Our initial $100 one thousand thousand delivery to the Racial Disinterestedness and Justice Initiative (REJI) focuses on 3 cardinal areas to create lasting alter: expanding access to education, supporting criminal justice reform, and removing barriers for entrepreneurs from underrepresented communities.

Nosotros've since added $30 million in new commitments, and nosotros're continuing to grow our piece of work and partnerships and create more than educational and career opportunities for students from underrepresented groups. Apple continues to support HBCU engineering programs as part of REJI. Our Innovation Grants help HBCU colleges of engineering science develop silicon and hardware applied science curricula in partnership with Apple experts. The Faculty Fellows Plan assists HBCU educators pursuing R&D with mentorship programs, curriculum development, and funds to equip lab spaces. Almost recently, Apple partnered with the California Land University (CSU) to launch a Global HSI Disinterestedness Innovation Hub. This public-private partnership between the state of California, the CSU, and Apple tree volition piece of work in collaboration with Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) throughout the U.Southward. to foster pupil success by equipping learners — including students who identify as Asian and Asian Pacific Islander, Black, and Hispanic/Latinx — with skills for loftier-demand careers.

Learn more than near our Racial Disinterestedness and Justice Initiative

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Kayode broadens how inequality is seen
around the globe.

Kayode Adegeye

He/him, Partner Communications Manager, Member of the People Engagement Committee

Kayode leads initiatives that heighten awareness around challenges facing Brazil'south Black community, with a focus on institutional racism in business and educational activity. He applies skills he has mastered as a partner communications manager to create content that prompts others inside and outside Apple tree to inform more inclusive views on race in Brazil.

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I think the more you can add something to the team that reflects the reality of society, the better the work.

Securely impacted by the death of George Floyd, Kayode mobilized his colleagues to produce content to brainwash their peers on topics like racial bias and inequity in Brazil. He led a console hosted by the Black@Apple tree community in Austin to hash out the historical roots of Brazil's Black Sensation Day. He also organized a conversation with an influential Apple Music host on music, leadership, and inclusion to enhance awareness and agreement.

Kayode says one of the starting time steps in countering racial bias is fostering empathy and open-mindedness. He's helping launch a chapter of Black@Apple throughout Latin America and the Caribbean to create fifty-fifty more than support for local communities. And he feels hopeful his piece of work is among other efforts that will make a deviation.

Wendy connects through Indigenous storytelling.

Wendy Santos

She/her, Retail Manager, Co-lead Indigenous@Apple

As a retail managing director and co-atomic number 82 of Indigenous@Apple, Wendy helps teams unearth connections between their work and the larger community in Hawaii. With close to 10 years at Apple, she'due south seen how good intentions can build strong bridges.

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What we're able to practice equally a DNA grouping is bring heart to our work, bring who nosotros authentically are across simply our roles inside Apple.

Wendy, a founding fellow member of Indigenous@Apple, cultivates partnerships with Apple services teams that integrate Ethnic culture into their piece of work on Music, Maps, and other products. For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, she worked with Apple tree Music to create a radio station featuring local artists capturing the spirit of pa'u hana, a Native Hawaiian tradition of bonding and storytelling afterward piece of work.

Wendy knows in that location's a lot more everyone tin practise to respect and understand Indigenous cultures and looks forwards to forging more bonds betwixt her work and her community. "When we become to help our teams connect to the bigger picture and purpose, nosotros get to make more of an impact."

Hiring practices with shared goals in mind.

Hiring practices with shared goals in heed.

To create products for everyone in the globe, we need a workforce with various backgrounds and experiences. We're making continuous progress in building an Apple community that represents the diverse and ever-irresolute world nosotros live in. And we're committed to far more.

Inclusive hiring standards and processes.

Nosotros've built inclusion and diversity measures into our candidate assessment framework. And we continue to make progress toward our goal of having more diverse interview panels and candidates so that diversity is reflected at every stage of the hiring process.

More robust diversity recruiting efforts for R&D and leadership.

We're working to accelerate progress through our diversity recruiting and hiring efforts across Apple, with a focus on technical, engineering, and leadership roles.

Expansive diversity outreach and external partnerships.

We are expanding our variety outreach efforts, including our ties with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), and other organizations that serve and appoint talent from underrepresented communities.

Inclusive hiring training is our practice globally.

Whether it's by participating in an interview panel or serving equally a hiring manager, bringing people into Apple is an important responsibility. We're making sure everyone involved in the hiring process has access to the information and resource they need to develop inclusive interviewing skills. All of our hiring managers and recruiters receive training in inclusive hiring practices. Our recruiters also receive training on how to continuously drive meaningful conversations with hiring managers to help implement these hiring practices with every function. These trainings help mitigate inherent biases and create more than consequent hiring experiences for all.

Dave brings teamwork to
building inclusive teams.

Dave Fischer

He/him, Manager of Software – Headphones, Accessories, and Systems

Creating positive bear on has been a priority for Dave since he started at Apple. Together with his recruiting partners, he reworked his team's hiring process to invite a wider puddle of diverse talent. They refined technical interview questions and implemented a novel console approach to ensure more consistent candidate evaluation.

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I think an important part of eliminating bias is to avoid the bias that creeps in from individual questions and preferences.

Not but did they see their goal of bringing new voices onto the team, they were able to create room for new positions too. He says the changes in staffing tin can only do good customers.

"Having that representation, and the ability to build empathy and understand how customers will utilize our products in different locales and cultures, is really disquisitional."

Dave knows hiring is only a first step toward creating more inclusive teams. "We all are part of dissimilar backgrounds and cultures, so the power to come together and to work collaboratively — to brand sure that everyone's phonation is heard — is a critical role of that as well."

"I think that all of the states are more successful when we work with each other in a respectful, articulate, and open way."

Yuli leads by inviting
people in.

Yuli Yang

She/her, Chief of Staff for Artificial Intelligence/Auto Learning (APAC), Women@Apple, AsiaPacific@Apple tree

Yuli is a longtime champion of inclusion and multifariousness in applied science at Apple. Her part as principal of staff for AI/ML in APAC provides her with opportunities to create a more than inclusive surroundings for the many engineering teams she works with throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

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I want people to feel strong speaking for themselves. And to create an environment where anybody can contribute their best; that'southward something every one of usa actually wants.

Conversation and receiving feedback are key to Yuli's leadership arroyo. When she heard that mothers wanted more support after giving nascency, she took action. She has been instrumental in increasing the number of nursing rooms available in Apple tree offices and manufacturing sites. "If y'all are not intentionally inclusive, and so y'all are unintentionally exclusive," she says.

Yuli knows there's ever more to acquire, and she leans heavily on her colleagues to help her create positive change. "I say to others: Speak up for what you want to practise and people around you lot volition back up you lot."

Committed
to pay disinterestedness around the globe.

Committed
to pay equity effectually the globe.

Since 2017, Apple has achieved and maintained gender pay equity for our employees worldwide. In the U.S., we have also accomplished pay equity with respect to race and ethnicity — as well as pay disinterestedness at the intersections of race and ethnicity with gender.

Nosotros don't ask for salary history during the recruiting process. Our recruiters base of operations offers on Apple employees in similar roles. And every yr, we examine the compensation employees receive and make adjustments to ensure that we maintain pay disinterestedness.

Pay equity at Apple.

Our pay equity review is global and covers 100 per centum of our employees. We consider total compensation, including base of operations bacon, bonus, and stock.

1:one Gender pay equity globally

one:1 Gender pay equity in every country

1:i Pay disinterestedness in the U.Southward. by race and ethnicity

1:1 Pay equity in the U.Southward. at the intersections of race and ethnicity and gender

Support for new career paths. And career changes.

Support for new
career paths.
And career changes.

Apple tree is a place where all people are valued for the work they exercise. We want everyone to flourish, so we offering many unlike paths to career fulfillment. We continue to take new steps to ensure that anybody at Apple tree has the opportunity to abound, develop, and find support.

Pathways to every kind of career at Apple.

Opportunities are built into every stage of the career journey. It is essential that all of our employees feel supported to work and grow with us. Our expanded growth and evolution programs help support and encourage squad members throughout their time with Apple. Nosotros've made more resource and companywide networks available to more than Apple employees. And nosotros're focusing on integrating inclusion and diversity factors into every pathway to strengthen the systems and processes that support all of our squad members.

The Career Feel program for Retail and AppleCare team members.

The Career Feel (CE) program gives Retail and AppleCare squad members effectually the world opportunities to grow and contribute their talents to other teams across the company, from engineering to marketing and beyond. Equally valued members of these teams, CE participants develop new skill sets and work on a variety of projects.

Powerful experiences for professional growth and education.

Employees take admission to Apple University, which fosters agreement, conversation, and critical thinking about Apple's culture, organisation, values, and role in the world. Apple University offers original classes, tools, and resources across a distinctive range of topics to help employees develop influence, larn to atomic number 82, and explore important topics similar fairness and justice. Content and conversation on the topic of inclusion are woven throughout the curriculum — including in a form on Race and Justice in the United States. Cartoon faculty and staff from academia and Apple itself, Apple Academy sessions are available to team members across all departments worldwide.

Olive reminds us of
the
power in a name.

Olive Simonin

She/her, Data Systems and Technology Project Manager, Co-founding Co‑chair Women@Apple Cork

For more than than thirty years, Olive, an Information Systems and Technology projection managing director, has watched as Apple tree'south Cork, Ireland, headquarters grew from a small team to a large, diverse staff serving much of the world. All of this growth presented some unique challenges, but as well unique opportunities to deepen Apple's global commitment to inclusion.

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We can go anywhere in the world, but we always travel with our name. Information technology's something that nosotros're all known by, and information technology's unique.

Olive helped create a characteristic in Apple tree's internal directory that allows employees to record a pronunciation of their names. As with all great ideas, seeing this one through took building bridges. Her role as a leader of the Women@Apple Cork chapter enabled her to connect with leaders across the visitor to take the idea from a hackathon flooring to reality.

"People are non expected to be the same at Apple. They're expected to bring their whole selves to work, bring whoever they are in their multifariousness, and that really promotes inclusion."

Rose champions
conversations about
identity.

Rose Ghahary

She/her, Retail Director, Lead Pride@Apple

More than than anything, Rose, a store manager, considers herself a leader. Over the span of her five-year career in Apple Retail, she's made it a point to strengthen the people and processes that make Apple what information technology is.

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I'm someone on my store's leadership team, but besides fifty-fifty just that squad, I'thou someone who leads by case.

As an active member of Pride@Apple tree, an LGBTQ+ Dna group, she'd heard stories from trans and gender nonconforming employees that their teams were sometimes unsure of how to support them, stories that mirrored her own experience. She'southward been working to build and improve support systems for her community at Apple always since.

Through Pride@Apple tree, Rose works to ameliorate how people understand, think, and talk near queer identity. She created and leads an inclusive leadership grooming for retail stores across the country, helps program Apple tree's celebration of the International Transgender Mean solar day of Visibility, and frequently serves on leadership panels with other employees. She says sometimes getting the chat started around multifariousness and inclusion is the hardest role.

"I recall if you have the best intent and understand why you're jumping into these conversations, y'all tin only positively impact the people effectually you."

The
Apple Shop
is where creativity and community come together.

The Apple Store is where creativity and community come up together.

Beyond the world, our Apple tree Store team members are committed to caring for each other and customers also equally building strong connections to the communities they serve. They know our products and services inside and out — and aim to make everyone experience welcome. At the same time, they're edifice locally customized programs to address the needs specific to each community.

Global and local programs.

Apple Store team members offer Today at Apple programs equally a complimentary resources for all. Each program is designed for people of all ages and backgrounds, and many are customized to meet the needs of local communities. These sessions assist people get inspired, develop new skills, and starting time creating — for themselves or their communities.

Empowering creatives through career building.

This by twelvemonth, Apple launched an innovative new community plan, Today at Apple Creative Studios, to provide career-building mentorship and training for young people facing barriers to meaningful artistic education and resources. Working in partnership with nonprofit community organizations, Creative Studios has amplified emerging artists' voices in Beijing, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome, and Washington, D.C.

Designed
with
everyone in mind.

Designed
with
everyone in mind.

We've always known that in order to create the about personal engineering science in the world, we must consider the full range of human experiences.

Think outside the screen.

All across Apple in that location is a sustained delivery to making products more inclusive. Apple accessibility engineers work mitt in mitt with a wide array of teams to assistance solve unique problems others seldom recall about. For example, how does someone who's blind or low vision know when to movement forward in line at a buffet?

The answer started with the video engineering team while working with the technology chosen LiDAR (Low-cal Detection and Ranging). Information technology uses a pulsed light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation to "ping" nearby objects to generate a 3D model of the surrounding environment, similar to how bats or dolphins use audio pulses to sense the earth effectually them.

But what started as a prototype to brand life more convenient became a necessity once COVID-19 hit. Our teams' ongoing conversations with the Blind community led to a more than pressing issue: How does a blind or depression-vision person practice social distancing? Cross-team communication and collaboration rallied our teams so we could fast-track the LiDAR Scanner prototype to create what is now our People Detection feature. Improving lives is great, but helping to save lives is even improve.

Tu makes Apple Spotter
more
accessible
for limb difference.

Tu Nguyen

He/him, Senior Software Engineer, watchOS

Tu's journeying at Apple started in college. When he wasn't poring through calculator science books, he was working part time as an Apple tree Shop Specialist and Genius. As an engineer working with the watchOS Accessibility team, Tu helped create engineering that enables people to do more than with their lives, no matter their accessibility needs.

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I got into informatics and software applied science in general to encounter people use what I build. And with AssistiveTouch in particular, information technology'due south non only them using it, information technology'south enabling them to use the unabridged affair.

AssistiveTouch, which Tu's team led the development of for watchOS, helps people use Apple Watch if they take difficulty touching the screen or pressing buttons. It allows paw gestures and simple movements like tilting and using a clenched fist or pinched fingers to control the device and is especially helpful for people with limb differences.

The years of work he put into the development process brought Tu closer to why he became an engineer. AssistiveTouch reflects not only his personal values, but a unique companywide commitment to accessibility.

"Everyone at Apple, including leadership, knows this is just the right thing to practice. In that location'southward no reason why nosotros can't build for accessibility, so we practise it."

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